Joshua I Newman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 187297 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joshua I Newman |
| NOMBRES | Joshua I |
| APELLIDO | Newman |
| FIRMA | NEWMAN J I |
| AFILIACIONES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9033-2081 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 330 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Refashioning Post-Cosmopolitan China
In this study, we examine Prada’s 2024 social media advertising campaign featuring the Chinese women’s national soccer team, analyzing the intersection of popular nationalism, consumer culture, and sportsbased luxury branding in China’s evolving marketplace. Using critical discourse analysis, we investigate how this global luxury brand utilized specific communication strategies to adapt to local markets through sport figures within China’s post-c…
Exclusion in the Name of Dissuasion
In early 2021, “esport dissuasion” emerged as a popular, yet contested, phenomenon in Chinese online media. This service simulates professional esport training’s demanding regimens to discourage gaming addiction, with discourses thereabout reflecting broader social anxieties about youth gaming practices. This study examines these competing discourses through content analysis of Chinese online media sources, including news articles, social media p…
Power, pedagogy and productivity
A double-edged sword
Hybrid choreographic femininities
The integration of conventional Western styles and Chinese (physical) cultural elements has become an increasingly utilised choreographic trend in Chinese DanceSport. In major competitions and televised events, choreographers have sought to create distinctive performance-based identities and practices that at once adhere to Western stylistic and competitive conventions but also incorporate traditional Chinese physical and cultural aesthetics. In …
Sociocultural Issues in Sport And Physical Activity
Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text surpasses the scope of sociological texts that focus solely on sports, covering a broad range of physical activities such as fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others. The authors emphasize the promotion of healthy individuals and a healthy body in the many movement settings where the body is active. Sociocultural …
Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times
Diffracting the Special Issue
In this introduction to the special issue, we (a) describe the unconventional and iteratively constitutive processes by which this special issue came into being and (b) provide a brief overview of how the body-focused research “nodal points” featured therein contribute to the fields of education, social theory, arts, gender studies, and sport and physical cultural studies. We outline a process whereby, in seeking to “diffract the special issue,” …
Diffractive Respondings and Cutting Together-Apart
In this 'paper,' we share our process of exploring the possibilities for the emergence of new ways of knowing-thinking-doing response-able collaboration. In an effort to come 'together-apart' as author-collaborators, working from our different positionings and locations in the world, we shared text and images of the various ways the ideas from individual papers (nodal points) and our diffractive processes were moving (with) us. Sharing these crea…
The Special Issue as Diffractive Process
In this article, we share a curated version of a Zoom meeting in which we come together-apart to articulate our experiences of the diffractive review process. In the later part of the dialogue, we turn toward imagining the possibilities for creatively exploring ways to represent how the ideas from this collaborative process travel with us, into our everyday lives. We discuss the ethical and political response-abilities in such diffractive collabo…
Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market
Esports is often described as a growing industry ripe with financial opportunities for young professional, competitive gamers. However, these claims rarely consider how income is distributed amongst players. This study uses prize earnings data from 2005 to 2019 to examine labor market inequality and related social inequalities and social stratifications. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients show that inequality has increased in the labor market ov…
The dancefloor is now open
In recent decades, the political, economic, and social environment in the Peoples' Republic of China has opened up to inflows of commerce and culture from around the world. Consequently, the physical cultural practices within China have undergone a double-dialectical shift-whereby performing bodies now influence, and are influenced by, a shifting body politic (e.g. sport and physical activity practices opening up to global markets and brands, tra…
Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms
Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms
To Live, Play, and Die in Tianjin
In this article, the authors provide a Deleuzoguattarian tracing of a specific set of relationships between traditional Chinese medicine, life, death, and football (soccer). More specifically, the authors examine political, economic, and cultural associations formed in and around the Quanjian Group, a major traditional Chinese medicine company once located in the burgeoning industrial hub of Tianjin. The authors follow Aihwa Ong in abductively ex…
The Politics of Research
This chapter critically interrogates the politics of research currently dominating U.S. higher education, a politics shaped as much by theoretical and methodological questions and debates as it is by prevailing social, cultural, political, and economic forces. The arguments are guided by four primary questions: (a) How and to what extent do the cultural and political priorities of the free-marketized, corporate university impact, direct, or confo…
Gaming Gone Viral
In this article, we use narrative economics to analyze the social conditions promoting the growth in private investment in esports—specifically in North American esports teams and franchises. Investment in the esport industry has outpaced revenue growth and esport teams do not have a proven cash flow model. To understand this disjuncture, we draw upon the narrative economic approaches developed by Robert Shiller and colleagues who have demonstrat…
Agency on Trial in Daily Fantasy Sport
The New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against DraftKings and FanDuel in 2015 accusing them of operating illegal gambling platforms. Using actor-network theory, we show how DraftKings, FanDuel, the New York Attorney General, critics, and legislators were preoccupied with how much agency players possessed. They also understood agency as emerging from a sociomaterial arrangement of human and nonhuman entities and saw how agency could be enha…
The Football Dream of a Sleeping Dragon
Much like the nation as a whole, the development of football in China has accelerated at unprecedented rates in recent years. The investment toward, participation in, and consumption of the sport has surged in the years following the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of major 2015 reforms intended to (1) develop the domestic professional football league, (2) grow the sport’s popularity among the country’s 1.4 billion population, (3) increa…
Sport Sociology, In Question1
In this article, which is an expanded and updated adaptation of the 2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Presidential Address, I look at the challenges and opportunities presented to the field by the Sokal 2.0 hoax. Specifically, I look at issues of epistemology and politics as expressed in, and produced through, the field(s) of sport sociology, physical cultural studies, and critical studies in/of sport. I conclude with a discu…
Narratives, identity and community in esports
The commercial and social ascendance of esports has become a source of considerable organisational, industrial, experiential and identity-based concern for those inside and outside the digital gaming field. Indeed, one major concern for self-identifying ‘gamers’ around the world is the extent to which the logics of professionalisation, spectacularisation and rationalisation that pervade contemporary esports will unsettle existing identities withi…
The transition game
Following decades of significant economic and political reform, a once-closed China has emerged as the world's fastest growing and arguably most interconnected political economic system. In the context of what has been termed a 'post-socialist' transition, China's sport system has similarly undergone rapid marketization (bringing in market actors and action). In this article, we examine the changing state and function of football (soccer) within …
Hyperpartisan Sports Media in Trump’s America
The rise of Donald Trump has widely been seen as concurrent to the emergence of the “Alt-Right” that coalesces around intersecting themes of conservativism: White ethno-nationalist “race realism,” populism, misogyny, evangelical theocracy, border protectionism, and anti-liberalism. Media has been a key site of struggle in these developments, with attacks on mainstream media bringing into focus wider questions of truth and legitimacy in journalism…
Sporting Shanghai
In recent years, Shanghai has become one of Asia’s major players in the bidding for, and hosting of, international sporting events. Uniquely positioned by history (e.g., China’s liberalized urban node to the globalizing economy, an imbedded urban cosmopolitanism) and geopolitics (e.g., a shift toward free market domestic political economy, a growing pro-corporatist governing alliance), sporting Shanghai provides a critical site of analysis for co…
What is this “Physical” in Physical Cultural Studies
In this article, we identify various points of ontological, epistemological, and methodological intersection from which an embodied, generative Physical Cultural Studies project can emerge. We follow scholars such as Ingham (1997) and Andrews (2008) in arguing that contemporary “body work” scholars might benefit from “framing” (Butler 2009) embodiment and corporeality within the general coordinates of 1) cultural studies’ politics of articulation…
Physical Cultural Studies and Embodied Research Acts
This article critically examines the emerging field of physical cultural studies, especially its contributions to our understandings of 'the body' in and through its ongoing relationship with the research act. That is, a focus on the confluence of the embodied self and the [auto-]ethnographic self as it relates to the conduct of inquiry. It also addresses the politics of the body within a particular neoliberal condition, and the way the body and …
Nascar and the "Southernization" of America
Written against the backdrop of the exploding popularity of NASCAR auto racing, the authors argue that the American South's post-Emancipation mediated history-and the signifiers through which it has been mediated-legislate a lingua franca of White privilege, White supremacy, and patriarchal hegemony. Under the auspices of a seemingly natural "heritage culture," the authors surmise that "the South" actively stands for something. The authors use th…
Neoliberalism's Last Lap? Nascar Nation and the Cultural Politics of Sport
This article examines the ways in which cultural and political intermediaries have endeavored to systematically reorganize the spectacles of North American stock car racing to reinscribe and re-present the hegemonic order of free-market capitalism. To this end, the authors draw from a complex synthesis of economic, social, and cultural theory to interrogate the political and corporate dimensions of "NASCAR Nation." More specifically, they offer a…
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
The study examines the significance of the Confederate flag in the local sport cultures of the American South. Building on a growing body of research related to sport, Whiteness, and the formation of local identity, this article questions how and why the Confederate signifier remains a contested, yet meaningful, symbol in the spaces and spectacles of the South’s most Confederate-emblazoned sporting institution: the University of Mississippi’s foo…
Army of Whiteness? Colonel Reb and the Sporting South's Cultural and Corporate Symbolic
This article contributes to an already vibrant discussion on the politics of race and ethnicity as mobilized through the semiotic embodiments of sporting mascots. Grounded in a poststructuralist theoretical framework, guided by the political thrust of cultural studies, and informed by a range of qualitative modes of inquiry, this study more specifically mediates on how the University of Mississippi's ('Ole Miss') sporting mascot, Colonel Rebel, c…
Narratives, identity and community in esports
The commercial and social ascendance of esports has become a source of considerable organisational, industrial, experiential and identity-based concern for those inside and outside the digital gaming field. Indeed, one major concern for self-identifying ‘gamers’ around the world is the extent to which the logics of professionalisation, spectacularisation and rationalisation that pervade contemporary esports will unsettle existing identities withi…
Gaming Gone Viral
In this article, we use narrative economics to analyze the social conditions promoting the growth in private investment in esports—specifically in North American esports teams and franchises. Investment in the esport industry has outpaced revenue growth and esport teams do not have a proven cash flow model. To understand this disjuncture, we draw upon the narrative economic approaches developed by Robert Shiller and colleagues who have demonstrat…
The Gospel According to Tim Tebow
In this article, we explore the media and cultural politics of former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Tim Tebow. More specifically, we investigate paradoxical and contradictory media representations of Tebow as his celebrity surfaced within, and came to dominate, the Obama-era ‘American’ media landscape. In so doing, we draw lines of articulation from Tebow—as performative and representative embodiment of white identity politics and Ch…
Flying Solo
In this article, we examine the local–global celebrity politics of former Chinese professional tennis player Li Na. We locate Li Na as representative of a growing class of Chinese celebrities who display both extraordinary popularity and enormous marketability. At the same time, Li Na’s noted “rebelliousness”—most especially her “fiery” personality and overt public repudiation of the Chinese communist state—has made her a deeply politicized if no…
[Un]Comfortable in My Own Skin
This article offers a reflexive [re]discovery of my own Whiteness, my own Southern-ness, and my own masculinity through ethnographic engagement with the 'New Sporting South'; reporting on the juxtaposition of my new [critical performance scholar] self onto the spaces and social relations once inhabited by my old [working class, parochial, 'Southern'] self. Although this article is primarily a retrospective on my return to Southern sporting fields…
Cruel Optimism in Sport Management
For university students in sport management programs, working in sports is often the end goal, and internships have become the most common curricular component for achieving this end. Sport management students bring to these internships various backgrounds and active fan attachments with sports that structure their work experiences and create certain conditions of exploitation. We thus conducted interviews with current and soon-to-be interns to u…
Blue Skies Over Beijing
During the 2008 Olympic Games, after years of environmental regulations, two months of short-term measures, and opportune weather, Beijing measured a record number of “blue sky days,” at the same time reassuring international athletes and journalists the air was safe for competition and Beijing residents. We use this case to understand how environmental objectives are achieved in sport. Using Bruno Latour’s object-oriented political ecology, we d…
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market
Esports is often described as a growing industry ripe with financial opportunities for young professional, competitive gamers. However, these claims rarely consider how income is distributed amongst players. This study uses prize earnings data from 2005 to 2019 to examine labor market inequality and related social inequalities and social stratifications. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients show that inequality has increased in the labor market ov…
Hyperpartisan Sports Media in Trump’s America
The rise of Donald Trump has widely been seen as concurrent to the emergence of the “Alt-Right” that coalesces around intersecting themes of conservativism: White ethno-nationalist “race realism,” populism, misogyny, evangelical theocracy, border protectionism, and anti-liberalism. Media has been a key site of struggle in these developments, with attacks on mainstream media bringing into focus wider questions of truth and legitimacy in journalism…
This Pain in My Neck
This article offers a series of autoethnographic reflections on suffering from physical symptoms associated with a paradox of praxis. More specifically, it mediates on the musculoskeletal pangs that come with a raised critical consciousness-or what Paulo Freire refers to in his teaching as conscientização-that stands as directly incongruent to living (in) the embodied politics of an incessantly aspirational working class habitus (and various mach…
The Physical and the Possible
This article examines 'the physical' and 'the possible' as bound together in recent political engagements of and with professional athletes - for example, Rashard Mendenhall, Luke Scott, and members of the Phoenix Suns organization-who have recently become entangled with/in mainstream debates concerning the 'war on terror' and Tea Party discourses. In so doing, it critically interrogates politics as consumer culture within the domain of sport. It…
Diffracting the Special Issue
In this introduction to the special issue, we (a) describe the unconventional and iteratively constitutive processes by which this special issue came into being and (b) provide a brief overview of how the body-focused research “nodal points” featured therein contribute to the fields of education, social theory, arts, gender studies, and sport and physical cultural studies. We outline a process whereby, in seeking to “diffract the special issue,” …
A Detour Through 'Nascar Nation
This study offers an ethnographically informed critical interrogation of the spaces and spectacles of 'NASCAR Nation'. Informed by a series of open-ended interviews with fans and administrators at NASCAR races, hundreds of hours of participant observation and spatial analysis at these events, and examination of various mediations of NASCAR driver-celebrity, spectacle, and fandom, this project illuminates the processes by which citizenship and ent…
The MRSA Epidemic and/as Fluid Biopolitics
This article offers a series of critical theorizations on the biopolitical dimensions of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), with specific attention to what has recently been referred to in the United States as the 'MRSA Epidemic'. In particular, we reflect on the proliferation of biomedical discourses around the 'spread', and the pathogenic potentialities, of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MR…
Moving Biopolitics
In this article, the authors engage with three emerging debates germane to contemporary biopolitics: (a) How do we advance the critical interrogation of the biopolitics of human movement? (b) How and in what ways might we 'move' about (and ideally against) regimes and systems of biopolitical subjectivity? and (c) How might 'moving' methods of writing, representation, and performance bring light to contemporary biopolitical struggles, contestation…
The Training Camp
In this article, we use the theories of Giorgio Agamben to conceptualize the contemporary American football training camp as a material and metaphorical 'camp'-a 'space of exception' or a zone of indistinction where bare life is produced and the exception becomes the rule. Our aim is not to sportingly trivialize the horrors of those camps about which Agamben has written extensively (i.e., the concentration camps of the Third Reich), nor do we set…
Of Victims and Markets
This article addresses the market logics on display at Penn State University in response to the Jerry Sandusky scandal, especially with respect to the idea of civic branding and community formation. The intersecting vectors of the corporate university, neoliberalism, and physical culture are highlighted to explain such a response. Responses to the scandal are also addressed in light of similar discourses of victimology present in the larger Wall …
The Football Dream of a Sleeping Dragon
Much like the nation as a whole, the development of football in China has accelerated at unprecedented rates in recent years. The investment toward, participation in, and consumption of the sport has surged in the years following the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of major 2015 reforms intended to (1) develop the domestic professional football league, (2) grow the sport’s popularity among the country’s 1.4 billion population, (3) increa…
Life in Three Deaths
Taking up the critical theorization of death as an important, though ambivalent, popular hermeneutic, this article attempts to expand upon existing arguments by examining death in the popular framings of an ever-growing U.S. militaristic biocitizenship (Mbembe, Giroux, Butler, Murray, Arendt). By understanding death as posing an existential crisis to collective and individual (social) life-as it is constructed through formations of moving embodim…
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
The study examines the significance of the Confederate flag in the local sport cultures of the American South. Building on a growing body of research related to sport, Whiteness, and the formation of local identity, this article questions how and why the Confederate signifier remains a contested, yet meaningful, symbol in the spaces and spectacles of the South’s most Confederate-emblazoned sporting institution: the University of Mississippi’s foo…
A Detour Through 'Nascar Nation
This study offers an ethnographically informed critical interrogation of the spaces and spectacles of 'NASCAR Nation'. Informed by a series of open-ended interviews with fans and administrators at NASCAR races, hundreds of hours of participant observation and spatial analysis at these events, and examination of various mediations of NASCAR driver-celebrity, spectacle, and fandom, this project illuminates the processes by which citizenship and ent…
Army of Whiteness? Colonel Reb and the Sporting South's Cultural and Corporate Symbolic
This article contributes to an already vibrant discussion on the politics of race and ethnicity as mobilized through the semiotic embodiments of sporting mascots. Grounded in a poststructuralist theoretical framework, guided by the political thrust of cultural studies, and informed by a range of qualitative modes of inquiry, this study more specifically mediates on how the University of Mississippi's ('Ole Miss') sporting mascot, Colonel Rebel, c…
Nascar and the "Southernization" of America
Written against the backdrop of the exploding popularity of NASCAR auto racing, the authors argue that the American South's post-Emancipation mediated history-and the signifiers through which it has been mediated-legislate a lingua franca of White privilege, White supremacy, and patriarchal hegemony. Under the auspices of a seemingly natural "heritage culture," the authors surmise that "the South" actively stands for something. The authors use th…
The Limits to “Nascar Nation”
This article profiles the ascent of stockcar racing from parochial pastime of the late industrial American South into an internationally-distributed corporate sport conglomerate. We explicate the role NASCAR (the sport’s governing body), its spectacles, and its consumer-spectators played in reproducing the political, economic, and cultural conditions by which it was made both “local” and “global.” It also briefly illustrates the problematic natur…
Full-Throttle Jesus
Neoliberalism's Last Lap? Nascar Nation and the Cultural Politics of Sport
This article examines the ways in which cultural and political intermediaries have endeavored to systematically reorganize the spectacles of North American stock car racing to reinscribe and re-present the hegemonic order of free-market capitalism. To this end, the authors draw from a complex synthesis of economic, social, and cultural theory to interrogate the political and corporate dimensions of "NASCAR Nation." More specifically, they offer a…
What is this “Physical” in Physical Cultural Studies
In this article, we identify various points of ontological, epistemological, and methodological intersection from which an embodied, generative Physical Cultural Studies project can emerge. We follow scholars such as Ingham (1997) and Andrews (2008) in arguing that contemporary “body work” scholars might benefit from “framing” (Butler 2009) embodiment and corporeality within the general coordinates of 1) cultural studies’ politics of articulation…
[Un]Comfortable in My Own Skin
This article offers a reflexive [re]discovery of my own Whiteness, my own Southern-ness, and my own masculinity through ethnographic engagement with the 'New Sporting South'; reporting on the juxtaposition of my new [critical performance scholar] self onto the spaces and social relations once inhabited by my old [working class, parochial, 'Southern'] self. Although this article is primarily a retrospective on my return to Southern sporting fields…
Physical Cultural Studies and Embodied Research Acts
This article critically examines the emerging field of physical cultural studies, especially its contributions to our understandings of 'the body' in and through its ongoing relationship with the research act. That is, a focus on the confluence of the embodied self and the [auto-]ethnographic self as it relates to the conduct of inquiry. It also addresses the politics of the body within a particular neoliberal condition, and the way the body and …
The Physical and the Possible
This article examines 'the physical' and 'the possible' as bound together in recent political engagements of and with professional athletes - for example, Rashard Mendenhall, Luke Scott, and members of the Phoenix Suns organization-who have recently become entangled with/in mainstream debates concerning the 'war on terror' and Tea Party discourses. In so doing, it critically interrogates politics as consumer culture within the domain of sport. It…
Of Victims and Markets
This article addresses the market logics on display at Penn State University in response to the Jerry Sandusky scandal, especially with respect to the idea of civic branding and community formation. The intersecting vectors of the corporate university, neoliberalism, and physical culture are highlighted to explain such a response. Responses to the scandal are also addressed in light of similar discourses of victimology present in the larger Wall …
Articulating Fatness
Arousing a [Post-] Enlightenment Active Body Praxis
In this coda, I consider the oncoming and already-present “crises” (see Giardina & Laurendeau, this issue) which threaten to unsettle the Enlightenment (and its hermeneutic legacies) substrata scholars of sport and the active body rest their work upon. In so doing, I aim to take up a number of the questions posited by the guest editors in their call for papers for this edition. I look back on the research and research acts that have come to hold …
In and Against Rhythms of the Neoliberal Public
In this article, we offer commentary on moving bodies and the spaces they simultaneously inhabit and produce, pointing specifically to dominant rhythmologies of the contemporary market society. We offer as the article's core thrust the pedagogical, political, and performative exigencies of the street: its traversal and occupation, its flow and stasis. We utilize the theories of Jean-Luc Nancy, Roberto Esposito, Lieven de Cauter, Guy Debord, and P…
This Pain in My Neck
This article offers a series of autoethnographic reflections on suffering from physical symptoms associated with a paradox of praxis. More specifically, it mediates on the musculoskeletal pangs that come with a raised critical consciousness-or what Paulo Freire refers to in his teaching as conscientização-that stands as directly incongruent to living (in) the embodied politics of an incessantly aspirational working class habitus (and various mach…
Appalachian Appellations
This article provides a series of critical reflections on my recent encounters with the spaces and bodies of tourist Appalachia. As both researcher and returnee, I look back on various qualitative research activities that have brought me back home to the Appalachian tourist destination of Sevier County, Tennessee. In so doing, I also outline (1) the market transformations that have come to shape the present-day Appalachian tourist economy—and the…
Moving Biopolitics
In this article, the authors engage with three emerging debates germane to contemporary biopolitics: (a) How do we advance the critical interrogation of the biopolitics of human movement? (b) How and in what ways might we 'move' about (and ideally against) regimes and systems of biopolitical subjectivity? and (c) How might 'moving' methods of writing, representation, and performance bring light to contemporary biopolitical struggles, contestation…
Life in Three Deaths
Taking up the critical theorization of death as an important, though ambivalent, popular hermeneutic, this article attempts to expand upon existing arguments by examining death in the popular framings of an ever-growing U.S. militaristic biocitizenship (Mbembe, Giroux, Butler, Murray, Arendt). By understanding death as posing an existential crisis to collective and individual (social) life-as it is constructed through formations of moving embodim…
The Training Camp
In this article, we use the theories of Giorgio Agamben to conceptualize the contemporary American football training camp as a material and metaphorical 'camp'-a 'space of exception' or a zone of indistinction where bare life is produced and the exception becomes the rule. Our aim is not to sportingly trivialize the horrors of those camps about which Agamben has written extensively (i.e., the concentration camps of the Third Reich), nor do we set…
The Gospel According to Tim Tebow
In this article, we explore the media and cultural politics of former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Tim Tebow. More specifically, we investigate paradoxical and contradictory media representations of Tebow as his celebrity surfaced within, and came to dominate, the Obama-era ‘American’ media landscape. In so doing, we draw lines of articulation from Tebow—as performative and representative embodiment of white identity politics and Ch…
The MRSA Epidemic and/as Fluid Biopolitics
This article offers a series of critical theorizations on the biopolitical dimensions of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), with specific attention to what has recently been referred to in the United States as the 'MRSA Epidemic'. In particular, we reflect on the proliferation of biomedical discourses around the 'spread', and the pathogenic potentialities, of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MR…
Sporting mythscapes, neoliberal histories, and post-colonial amnesia in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Andrews (1999) has argued that under conditions of market-based liberalization, the sporting past has increasingly been put to use for the purposes of accumulation. This selectively rendered 'sporting historicism,' he argues, results in 'a pseudo-authentic historical sensibility, as opposed to a genuinely historically grounded understanding of the past, or indeed the present by rendering history a vast, yet random, archive of events, styles, and …
Blue Skies Over Beijing
During the 2008 Olympic Games, after years of environmental regulations, two months of short-term measures, and opportune weather, Beijing measured a record number of “blue sky days,” at the same time reassuring international athletes and journalists the air was safe for competition and Beijing residents. We use this case to understand how environmental objectives are achieved in sport. Using Bruno Latour’s object-oriented political ecology, we d…
Flying Solo
In this article, we examine the local–global celebrity politics of former Chinese professional tennis player Li Na. We locate Li Na as representative of a growing class of Chinese celebrities who display both extraordinary popularity and enormous marketability. At the same time, Li Na’s noted “rebelliousness”—most especially her “fiery” personality and overt public repudiation of the Chinese communist state—has made her a deeply politicized if no…
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