Krieger J, Henning A, Pieper L & Dimeo P (eds.) (2021)
Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown. Sport & Society. Champaign, Illinois: Common Ground Research Networks. https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-230-7/cgp
Abstract
In the edited collection Time Out: Global 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 a global perspective. 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 chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the immediate consequences of the Covid-19 lockdown on sport. This book presents a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives in a total of twenty individual chapters, organized around three main themes. The first section explores the reac