Abstract
The idea of passing on messages and knowledge to future generations is an ancient one, and yet it is at the same time ‘new’, as we seek to come to grips with social, technological and cultural change in this COVID era. The COVID-19 crisis has had significant gendered impacts, with increased unemployment, higher rates of mental distress and decreasing sport and physical activity rates among young women in Australia. This chapter offers insights into the methodological process of creating time capsules as a generative knowledge practice. Experimenting with creative future-oriented methods, we sought to collaborate with two groups of Australian girls (aged 14 to 17) who play club sport to begin to develop a time capsule to help them reflect on their experiences during the COVID-19 crisis. This elicitation method invited the girls to explore their experiences of the repeated cessation and return to sport during the first 18 months of the crisis in relation to significant objects, places, practices and people. Approaching this experimental method through feminist new materialism theory, we explore the affective dynamics of COVID-19 as they were surfaced in this research-creation activity and subsequent discussions with our participants. We consider the disruptive effects and affects of the crisis for girls’ participation as well as gender equity for future generations in post-pandemic sport.
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Pavlidis, A., Fullagar, S., Nichols, E., Lupton, D., Forsdike, K., Thorpe, H. (2023). Experimenting with Research Creation During a Pandemic: Making Time Capsules with Girls in Sport. In: Andrews, D.L., Thorpe, H., Newman, J.I. (eds) Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times . Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14387-8_10
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