@inbook{5c42236fc3b64eb5bf9f8bbd8b6e461c,
title = "A Syndemics Approach to NCAA Collegiate Sport Participation During COVID-19",
abstract = "We utilize a syndemic-oriented interrogation of risk in the context of NCAA football and COVID-19 in light of historical conceptions of racialized bodies in physical culture. A syndemic occurs when two health conditions aggregate at a population level---created or exacerbated by a social factor (Singer et al., The Lancet, 389, 941--950, 2017). It involves both a Bio-Bio interaction between the two disease entities as well as exacerbation by the Bio-Social, leading to worsened suffering that would not occur otherwise (Singer et al., Global Public Health, 15, 943--955, 2020). Introducing this paradigm to sport sociology enables our understanding of the effects of COVID-19 in a U.S. sporting context. Specifically, we argue that there is a potential for creating a syndemic through pressures to return to in-person collegiate play which is a conflation of a ``return to normal American life'' using NCAA football to signify normalcy during a pandemic.",
author = "Clarke, {Caitlin Vitosky} and Kaitlin Pericak and Adamson, {Brynn C.} and Kassidy Mahoney",
year = "2023",
month = may,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-14387-8_23",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783031143861",
series = "Global Culture and Sport Series",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "569--596",
editor = "Andrews, {David L.} and Holly Thorpe and Newman, {Joshua I.}",
booktitle = "Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages",
address = "Germany",
}