1st Edition
Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus A Rapid Response
As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, as well as in its (many) absences, leisure has taken on new significance in both managing and negotiating a global crisis.
Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response, amidst the disruption, inconvenience, illness, fear, uncertainty, tragedy, and loss from COVID-19, generates discussions that enable leisure scholars to learn and to engage with wider debates about the crucial role of leisure in people’s lives. The pandemic has brought tourism to a standstill with borders closed and travel restricted. From home (for those fortunate enough to have them), in physical isolation, and in attempts to socialize, at no time in recent memory has leisure seemed so vital, and yet also so hauntingly absent. Leisure, therefore, remains an important lens through which to view, question, and understand the world.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Leisure Sciences.
Introduction - Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response
Brett Lashua, Corey W. Johnson and Diana C. Parry
1. Color-Coded Activity Charts and Beachbody: "Momming" in COVID-19
Callie Schultz, Linda Oakleaf and Karen Paisley
2. Single Women’s Leisure during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Audrey R. Giles and Jacquelyn Oncescu
3. Pandemic Motherhood and the Academy: A Critical Examination of the Leisure-Work Dichotomy
Brooke N. Burk, Anna Pechenik Mausolf and Linda Oakleaf
4. Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks
Corliss Outley, Shamaya Bowen and Harrison Pinckney
5. Beyond Hypervisibility and Fear: British Chinese Communities’ Leisure and Health-Related Experiences in the Time of Coronavirus
Bonnie Pang
6. Capitalism and the (il)Logics of Higher Education’s COVID-19 Response: A Black Feminist Critique
Terah J. Stewart
7. "If We’re Lost, We Are Lost Together": Leisure and Relationality
Felice Yuen
8. Power and Social Control of Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Myra Gayle Gabriel, Aishia Brown, Maria León and Corliss Outley
9. Leisure Behind Bars: The Realities of COVID-19 for Youth Connected to the Justice System
Maria León, Kevin Rodas and Mora Greer
10. Rainbows, Teddy Bears and ‘Others’: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Leisure Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Utsa Mukherjee
11. Are You OK, Boomer? Intensification of Ageism and Intergenerational Tensions on Social Media Amid COVID-19
Brad A. Meisner
12. Promoting Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Social Well-Being during COVID-19
Julie S. Son, Galit Nimrod, Stephanie T. West, Megan C. Janke, Toni Liechty and Jill J. Naar
13. Prosumption, Networks and Value during a Global Pandemic: Lockdown Leisure and COVID-19
Alexander John Bond, Paul Widdop, David Cockayne and Daniel Parnell
14. "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" @Dnice #ClubQuarantine: Digitally Mediating Ritualistic Leisure Spaces during Isolation
Brandy N. Kelly Pryor and Corliss Outley
15. COVID-19 and its Impact on Volunteering: Moving Towards Virtual Volunteering
Erik L. Lachance
16. "Washing Hands, Reaching Out" – Popular Music, Digital Leisure and Touch during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Eric T. Lehman
17. What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories
Shana MacDonald
18. Self-Isolated but Not Alone: Community Management Work in the Time of a Pandemic
Matthew E. Perks
19. Masturbating to Remain (Close to) the Same: Sexually Explicit Media as Habitual Media
Jonathan Petrychyn
20. #QuarantineChallenge2k20: Leisure in the Time of the Pandemic
Monika Stodolska
21. Why Don’t We Play Pandemic? Analog Gaming Communities in Lockdown
Matt Coward-Gibbs
22. By Bread Alone: Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis
Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith
23. Distancing from the Present: Nostalgia and Leisure in Lockdown
Sean Gammon and Gregory Ramshaw
24. Less Sex, but More Sexual Diversity: Changes in Sexual Behavior during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Justin J. Lehmiller, Justin R. Garcia, Amanda N. Gesselman and Kristen P. Mark
25. Dogs Unleashed: The Positive Role Dogs Play during COVID-19
Rebecca Mayers
26. Queer Isolation or Queering Isolation? Reflecting upon the Ramifications of COVID-19 on the Future of Queer Leisure Spaces
Austin R. Anderson and Eric Knee
27. This Must Be the Place: Distraction, Connection, and "Space-Building" in the Time of Quarantine
Marko Djurdjić
28. Neighboring in the Time of Coronavirus? Paying Civil Attention While Walking the Neighborhood
Troy D. Glover
29. Rural-Urban Interdependencies: Thinking through the Implications of Space, Leisure, Politics and Health
Kyle Rich
30. From Gym Rat to Rock Star! Negotiating Constraints to Leisure Experience via a Strengths and Substitutability Approach
D J Williams
31. Leisure Matters: Cross Continent Conversations in a Time of Crisis
Mark Havitz, Mark P. Pritchard and Frédéric Dimanche
32. Where Is Leisure When Death Is Present?
Karen M. Fox and Lisa McDermott
33. On Not Knowing: COVID-19 and Decolonizing Leisure Research
Bryan S. R. Grimwood
34. Pandemic Precarity: Aging and Social Engagement
Shannon Hebblethwaite, Laurel Young and Tristana Martin Rubio
35. A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Leisure with the Enemy Under COVID-19
Rasul A. Mowatt
36. Biopolitics, Essential Labor, and the Political-Economic Crises of COVID-19
Jeff Rose
37. Mass Hysteria, Manufacturing Crisis and the Legal Reconstruction of Acceptable Exercise during a Pandemic
Brian Simpson
38. Football is "the most important of the least important things": The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19
Jack Black
39. Hosting the Olympics in Times of a Pandemic: Historical Insights from Antwerp 1920
Bram Constandt and Annick Willem
40. Festivals Post Covid-19
Karen Davies
41. Purveyors of One Health: The Ecological Imperative Driving the Future of Leisure Services
Daniel Dustin, Gene Lamke, James Murphy, Cary McDonald, Brett Wright and Jack Harper
42. Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism
Simone Fullagar and Adele Pavlidis
43. Adventure in the Age of COVID-19: Embracing Microadventures and Locavism in a Post-Pandemic World
Susan Houge Mackenzie and Jasmine Goodnow
44. The Future is Unwritten: Listening to the Rhythms of COVID-19
Brian E. Kumm, Joseph A. Pate and Callie S. Schultz
45. Advice for Leisure Studies: Reflections on the Pandemic From a Retired Professor
Diane M. Samdahl
Biography
Brett Lashua lectures in Cultural Sociology at the Institute of Education, University College London. His scholarship is concerned with social inequalities read through youth leisure, popular music, critical cultural heritage, and urban geographies, underpinned by a commitment to participatory arts-based research methods.
Corey W. Johnson is Professor at the University of Waterloo. His theorizing and qualitative inquiry focuses on the power relations between dominant (white, male, heterosexual, etc.) and non-dominant populations in the cultural contexts of leisure, providing important insight into both the privileging and discriminatory practices in contemporary settings.
Diana C. Parry is Professor in Recreation and Leisure Studies and Associate Vice-President of Human Rights, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Waterloo. Diana’s research utilizes a variety of feminist theories to explore the personal and political links between women’s leisure and women’s health, broadly defined.
