Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times COVID Assemblages

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.