This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture and the COVID-19 global pandemic. By examining the generative complexities that simultaneously link and shape sport/physical culture and COVID, the book develops a collection of multi-faceted readings. The anthology is framed by an ontological understanding prefigured on relationality, liminality, and perpetual becoming. The contributions theoretically, methodologically and representationally explore COVID-sport assemblages as a dynamic and diverse “ad hoc grouping”of interpenetrating affecting elements, encompassing material and expressive forms, human and non-human, animate and inanimate matter. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and students and scholars of kinesiology, sociology of sport, critical studies of the body, physical education, sport and social issues, public health, physical cultural studies, sociology, foreign policy studies, and international studies.
1.Introduction: Assembling COVID/COVID Assemblages.- 2.The Political
Physics of an Unkicked Ball: On Diffractive No-Bodies and Pandemic Non-Matter
in Footballing China.- 3. Sporting Coronapolitics: Politics, Ideology and
U.S. Nationalism in Pandemic Times.- 4. Lockdown Cartographies: Active
Bodies, Public Spaces and Pandemic Atmospheres in Italy.- 5.Women Sport and
Fitness Professionals in Pandemic Times:Feminist Ethics, Digital Connection
and Becoming Community.- 6.Meeting the Physical Online: Thinking With
Agential Realism About Digitally Entangled Becoming in the Time of
Corona.- 7.Dreaming of Level Free:Lockdown and the cultural politics of
surfing during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.- 8.Proximity to
Precarity: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic as Graduate Apprentices in
Physical Cultural Studies.- 9.Black Bodies and Green Spaces: Examining the
Value of Nature During a Pandemic.- 10.Experimenting with research creation
during a pandemic: Making time capsules with girls in sport.- 11.Access &
Crisis: Disrupting Ableist Definitions of Physical Activity & Culture.- 12.A
Community of Athletic Pariahs?: Guilt, Shame, and Social Control in the
COVID-19 Pandemic.- 13.On the Subject of Race and Sport: Covid-19, Zoom, and
the Necessity of Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy.- 14.Sport-for-development and
peace and COVID-19: Technologies, the body, and virtual forms of
programming.- 15.Reorienting the cartography of coaching to pandemic
times.- 16.Virat over Virus, Cricket over Covid: IPL during a Global
Pandemic.- 17.From football nation to COVID 19-land: Cultural pedagogies and
political protests during syndemic times in Brazil.- 18.Parenting in pandemic
times:Notes on the emotional geography of youth sport culture.- 19.Te Mana
Whakahaere: COVID-19 And Resetting Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand.- 20.The
Uptake of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Implications for Sport and Physical Culture.- 21.Furlough, Food Banks and
Vaccine Hesitancy: Sport in Britain during the COVID-19
pandemic.- 22.COVID-19, the Anthropocene, and the Need for
Post-Sport.- 23.A Syndemics Approach to NCAA Collegiate Sport Participation
During COVID-19.- 24.On the politics and embodiments of longing: Snapshots
from a digital photo diary study of Australians movement experiences during
lockdown.- 25.Playing through a Pandemic:Football Bodies, Racialized
Violence, and Institutionalized Care.- 26.Mapping the geographies of combat
sport during COVID-19: Dana White, Trumpism, and the landscapes of the
UFC.- 27.Corona Games: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Celebration Capitalism, and
COVID-19.- 28.You realise you tick a lot of boxes: Exploring the impact of
COVID-19 on the rehabilitating body through a Bourdieusian
lens.- 29.Paradoxical Effects of the Health Crisis within the Esports
Industry: How French Esports Organizations Illuminate the Perceived Revenue
Growth Façade.- 30.Disaster Football: Billionaire owners, shock therapy, and
the exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic in European
football.- 31.Interview(s) with the Vampire: Research Opportunism During a
Global Catastrophe.
David L. Andrews is Professor and Director of the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group at the University of Maryland, USA. Holly Thorpe is Professor of Sport, Physical Culture and Gender at Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Joshua I. Newman is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education, and Professor of Sport, Media, and Cultural Studies at Florida State University, USA.
