Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments

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.

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