Full Description
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.
Contents
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 BEGOVIĆ
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
