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Conclusion: Covid in a Play Frame

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TitleConclusion
SubtitleCovid in a Play Frame
ContributorAnna Beresin (author)
Julia Bishop(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0326.20
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0326/chapters/10.11647/obp.0326.20
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBeresin, Anna; Bishop, Julia;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-06-01
Long abstractThe conclusion inverts the book’s title and examines Covid in a play frame, presenting Brian Sutton-Smith’s concept of dialudics, the conflation of ludic (Latin for ‘play’) and dialectic or dialogic. Each chapter’s theme is re-examined through the lens of dialudics, pointing to the many paradoxes of play and how play offers a vessel for containing opposites, particularly in complex times like this one.
Page rangepp. 441–446
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • Covid
  • play frame
  • Brian Sutton-Smith
  • dialudics
  • ludic
  • dialectic
  • dialogic
  • chapter's theme
  • paradoxes
  • vessel
  • containing opposites
  • complex times
Contributors

Anna Beresin

(author)
Professor of Psychology and Folklore at University of the Arts

Anna Beresin, PhD, serves as professor of psychology and folklore at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-edits the International Journal of Play and studies children’s folklore, primate physical play, language play and the connections between play, culture and art. Her books include The Character of Play (2019), The Art of Play: Recess and the Practice of Invention (2014), and Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling (2010). She co-authored Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation with Brigitta Herrmann, Manfred Fischbeck, and Elia Sinaico (2018). Visit her at www.annaberesin.com.

Julia Bishop

(author)
Research Associate in the School of Education at University of Sheffield

Julia Bishop is research associate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK with a PhD in folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has documented play and social inclusion, playground games and songs in the new media age, digital play in the early years, memories and experiences of play, and play during the Covid-19 pandemic. Julia is co-chair of the British Academy research project Childhoods and Play: The Opie Archive (www.opiearchive.org), and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play. Her publications include contributions to Play Today in the Primary School Playground (2001), Children, Media and Playground Cultures (2013), Children’s Games in the New Media Age (2014), Changing Play (2014), and The Lifework and Legacy of Iona and Peter Opie (2019).