ISBN:
9780949313430
,
9781863352314
Language:
English
Pages:
329 pages
Edition:
First published
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Time out
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Sports Social aspects
;
Nationalism and sports
;
COVID-19 (Disease) Social aspects
Abstract:
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on sport in Sweden / Johan R. Norberg, Daniel Svensson, Alexander Jansson, and Susanna Hedenborg -- Gegenpressing : the Bundesliga's tactical response to the Covid-19 lockdown / Austin Duckworth -- For the good of the game? : resolving an existential crisis in Scottish football / Stephen Morrow -- When the far-right meets a pandemic : Covid-19, Brazilian football league and social controversies in the era of Bolsonaro / Hoyoon Jung -- From social distancing to social inclusion : the frustrations and friendships of women's cricket during the pandemic / Peter Evans -- The impact of Covid-19 on horseracing in Britain / Laura Donnellan -- Adapting sports entertainment to the lockdown : World Wrestling Entertainment, the modification of performance practices, and the logic of capitalism during the Covid-19 pandemic / Martin Reiter -- Baseball, CPBL, and Taiwanese nationalism in the time of Covid-19 / Daniel Yu-Kuei Sun -- Horseracing and football in the time of Covid-19 : a tale of two sports in Hong Kong / Tobias Zuser -- Covid-19 crisis response : did Australian professional sport move fast enough? / Michelle O'Shea, Hazel Maxwell, and Sarah Duffy -- Impact and implications of Covid-19 and lockdown on India's sports ecosystem / Balbier Singh Aulakh -- Why the NBA shut down first : how partisan polarization informs sports and public health / Andrew M. Lindner and Daniel N. Hawkins -- The impact of the Covid-19 crisis and the robustness of Dutch sport clubs / Resie Hoeijmakers and Jan-Willem van der Roest -- "Stay fit to fight the virus" : ethnographies of change in the world of fitness instructors (selected case studies) / Dominika Czarnecka -- Coaching without sports : strategies used by youth sport coaches from underserved communities to foster development during Covid-19 / William R. Falcão, Sebastien Arcand, and Fabrice Vil -- Four South Australian local sport participants' perspectives on the Covid-19 pandemic / Connor MacDonald -- The trailblazing woman on the Japanese Olympic Committee who called for postponement / Robin Kietlinski -- The observance of Ramadan in the United Arab Emirates sport industry during the Covid-19 lockdown / Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos and Mohammed Sayeed Khan -- The Philippines : filling the sports page with nostalgia in a pandemic-abbreviated sSeason / Severino R. Sarmenta Jr. -- What do sports networks broadcast when there are no live games? : a study of China's CCTV-5 sports channel during the Covid-19 pandemic / Zesheng Yang and Han Gao -- "This too shall pass" : Gaelic Games, Irish media and the Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland / Seán Crosson and Marcus Free -- The Covid-19 time out : our opportunity to design a new game plan for sport in Canada / Jennifer Walinga.
Abstract:
"In the edited collection, Time Out: National Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown, practitioners and international scholars explore the impact of the global Covid-19 health pandemic on sport from various local and national perspectives. It is part of a two-volume Covid-19 and Sport series that tackles the effects of the global lockdown on sport during March and April 2020, when restrictions were at their most severe and the human toll at its peak in many countries. The twenty-two chapters provide a comprehensive overview on the immediate consequences of the Covid-19 lockdown on local and national sport from a variety of perspectives"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
