"Daddy, Help Me; I Forgot How to Make a New Friend": Emotional Geographies of Youth Sport in Pandemic Times. (October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Giardina, Michael D.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 21:Number 5(2021)
• Page Start: 365
• Page End: 371
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Subjects: youth sport -- mental health -- COVID-19 -- pandemic -- emotional geographies; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/15327086211036522
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

In what follows, the author directs attention to one slice of pandemic life and its interplay across the emotional geographies of childhood, parenthood, work-life balance, lockdowns, stress, mental health, and youth sport, for it is in these private if banal moments that the "everyday" experiences of the pandemic are made real—and reveal the tensions and dilemmas that individuals tried to negotiate—to differing levels of success.