Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-12542-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings—before, during and after catastrophic events—through physical activity and sporting practices.

Broad and ambitious in scope, this book uses sport and physical activity as a lens through which to examine our catastrophic societies and spaces. Acknowledging that catastrophes are complex, overlapping phenomena in need of sophisticated, interdisciplinary solutions, this book explores the social, economic, ecological and moral injustices that determine the personal and emotional impact of catastrophe. Drawing from international case studies, this book uniquely explores the different landscapes and contexts of catastrophe as well as the affective qualities of sporting practices. This includes topics such as DIY skateparks in Jamaica; former child soldiers in Africa; the funding of sport, recreation and cultural activities by extractive industries in northern Canada; mountain biking in the UK; and urban exploration in New Zealand. Featuring the work of ex-professional athletes, artists, anthropologists, sociologists, political ecologists, community development workers and philosophers, this book offers new perspectives on capitalism, nature, sociality, morality and identity.

This is essential reading for academics and practitioners in sociology, disaster studies, sport-for-development and political ecology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherrington, Jim

Black, Jack

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: sport and physical activity in catastrophic environments—tuning to the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’

JIM CHERRINGTON AND JACK BLACK

PART I

The end of capitalism

1 Skateboarding in Jamaica: commoning a postcapitalist future

TOM CRITCHLEY

2 Post-Colonial residue in sport-for-development partnerships: localised insights from Cameroon

JOANNE CLARKE

3 The extractives industry, Indigenous communities and the use of sport, recreational and cultural programs in catastrophic environments

AUDREY GILES, KEVIN G ARDAM, ROB MILLINGTON, STEVEN RYNNE AND LYNDSAY HAYHURST

PART II

The end of the social

4 An examination of physical activity norms and code making during a global pandemic: watchful indifference and managing the bubble

HOLLY COLLISON-RANDALL AND STANLEY WINDSOR

5 Physical activity and community resilience

DAN BATES AND JANINE PARTINGTON

6 Women’s basketball and political activism in the time of COVID-19: inside the ‘Wubble’

GEORGIA MUNRO-COOK

7 Sport governance in times of crisis: the case of montenegro and COVID-19

MARKO BEGOVIC

PART III

The end of nature

8 Mountain biking in the (Neg)Anthropocene: encountering, witnessing and reorienting to the end of the ‘Natural’ world

JIM CHERRINGTON

9 An urban explorer’s experiences of meshwork, melding and the uncanny: invisible cities of the rubble

KEVIN BINGHAM

10 Climate change, catastrophe and hope in football fandom: football as an island of hope in a warming sea of despair

JENNIFER AMANN AND MARK DOIDGE

PART IV

The end of morality

11 Informational hazards and moral harm: sport and exercise science laboratories as sites of moral catastrophes

KASS GIBSON

12 Participant-Centred skateboarding in the West Bank, occupied Palestine: an Analysis of the Work of SkatePal

DANI ABULHAWA

13 The use of sports for former child soldiers: the faces, forces and barriers behind social inclusion

DEAN M. RAVIZZA

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Cherrington is Senior Lecturer in physical activity, sport and health at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research explores how identity, bodies, knowledge and objects are materialised in/through everyday life. Much of his recent work is dedicated to investigating the socio-historical, socio-technical and onto-political conditions of ‘nature’ (sport). He is also interested in methodological innovation, both in his work on visual methodologies and creative forms of representation and is committed to finding novel ways of documenting a range of human-nonhuman relationships.

Jack Black is Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media and Society, where he is the research lead for the Anti-Racism Research Group. An interdisciplinary researcher working within psychoanalysis and the humanities, Jack’s research examines the ontological importance of time, temporality and catastrophe in natural and environmental approaches.