Callie Batts Maddox
Biographic Data
| ID | 196500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Callie Batts Maddox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Callie Batts |
| FAMILY NAME | Maddox |
| SIGNATURE | MADDOX C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7851-2730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The body doesn’t lie: Yoga and embodiment in the higher education classroom
Awareness of and response to embodiment as a foundational element of teaching and learning is increasingly lost in the higher education classroom. The widespread shift to online learning prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic only brought this reality into high relief. However, in this conceptual article, we reflect on teaching and learning as inherently embodied processes and link this reality to the teaching skills of presence and observation. As yo…
We Did It: A Content Analysis of Australian and New Zealand Online News Media Coverage of the Bid Process for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup
The purpose of this study was to examine online news media coverage of the Australia–New Zealand joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following neoliberal feminist theory and a postfeminist framework, the meanings and discourses of women’s empowerment produced in, and disseminated by, Australia and New Zealand’s popular online news media were explored. A content analysis was used to examine 77 domestic online news media articles pub…
A League of Their Own (2022)
In August 2022, Amazon released a new television series titled A League of Their Own that promised to build upon and extend the 1992 film of the same name. Co-created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, the show is not a reboot of the film but rather an adaptation that offers new characters, an expanded plot, and a centering of queerness. Set in 1943, the series follows the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), a women's profess…
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine
We have to be a little more realistic’: Women’s outdoor recreation experiences in a community hiking group
Grounded in the theoretical framework of ecological feminism, this study explores the tension between constraint and empowerment that often marks women’s participation in outdoor recreation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and thirteen semi-structured interviews, this study examines how women in a co-ed community hiking group in the Midwest region of the United States experience the gendered space of outdoor recreation. Analysis of the observat…
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo
Miami University has used Native American imagery to promote itself since its founding. In 1929, Miami teams began using the racist term Redsk*ns. In 1996–1997, they changed the name to RedHawks. Despite the strengthening relationship between the university and the tribe, the racist mascot imagery remained visible in the university community. In 2017–2018, the university returned to Native American imagery by unveiling a new “Heritage Logo” to re…
Young Middle-Class Women, Consumption and Fitness in Contemporary India: ‘To Tackle All That is Thrown Her Way’
This article examines the intersections of fitness, consumption, the middle class and the female body in contemporary India. Having grown up exposed to and interacting with global markets, brands and commodities, young middle-class Indian women seek to engage in cultural practices that distinguish them as members of an upwardly mobile class of urban professionals. For many young women, working out at a gym or fitness centre has become an importan…
Not America's Game: The Globalization and Post-Westernization of Women's Baseball
This article explores the globalization of women's baseball from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The women's game is largely absent from literature about the global diffusion of baseball, but its growing presence in numerous cultural contexts demands attention. Drawing on ideas from Rumford and Cho, I contend that contemporary women's baseball is best read as an example of post-Westernization, which sets it apart from the men's gam…
Working a Third Shift: Physical Activity and Embodied Motherhood
In their conception of the 'third shift,' Dworkin and Wachs argue that working mothers engage in fitness and bodywork in addition to the first shift of professional work and the second shift of household labor and childcare. Within this third shift, the goal for women is to 'erase physical evidence of motherhood' and return to the pre-pregnancy self. The cultivation of a body socially defined as 'good' and 'attractive' thus serves as a visible il…
The Benares of the West”: The Evolution of Yoga in Los Angeles
This paper explores the relationship between yoga and Los Angeles by focusing on the stories of Paramhansa Yogananda, Indra Devi, and Bikram Choudhury, immigrant yogis who arrived in Los Angeles at different points in the twentieth century to build and sell their own brands of yoga in a diverse, complex, and contested city. We offer a contextualized snapshot of yoga’s history in Los Angeles by interweaving brief biographies of each yogi with spec…
Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Circumstantial intervention: Three perspectives
This article uses our past experiences with ethnography to explore our various interpretations of intervention and/or struggles in conducting interventionist research. By drawing on our personal ex
Tales from the Ethnographic Field: Navigating Feelings of Guilt and Privilege in the Research Process
This article explores questions of reflexivity, positionality, identity, and emotion within the process of ethnographic research. We reflect on our feelings of privilege and guilt in and through our ethnographic fieldwork and discuss the ways in which these experiences encouraged reflexive thinking and a crucial interrogation of the place of the self in the research process. Specifically, we construct individual vignettes centered on our differin…
Studying at the source: Ashtanga yoga tourism and the search for authenticity in Mysore, India
Based on a critical reading of the history of Ashtanga yoga, participant observation, and interviews with Americans attending the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, this article explores the notion of authenticity within Ashtanga yoga itself and amongst yoga practitioners journeying to India hoping to find an authentic travel experience. Many of these tourists assume that the yoga experienced in Mysore is more genuine than that p…
Tales from the Ethnographic Field: Navigating Feelings of Guilt and Privilege in the Research Process
This article explores questions of reflexivity, positionality, identity, and emotion within the process of ethnographic research. We reflect on our feelings of privilege and guilt in and through our ethnographic fieldwork and discuss the ways in which these experiences encouraged reflexive thinking and a crucial interrogation of the place of the self in the research process. Specifically, we construct individual vignettes centered on our differin…
We have to be a little more realistic’: Women’s outdoor recreation experiences in a community hiking group
Grounded in the theoretical framework of ecological feminism, this study explores the tension between constraint and empowerment that often marks women’s participation in outdoor recreation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and thirteen semi-structured interviews, this study examines how women in a co-ed community hiking group in the Midwest region of the United States experience the gendered space of outdoor recreation. Analysis of the observat…
Working a Third Shift: Physical Activity and Embodied Motherhood
In their conception of the 'third shift,' Dworkin and Wachs argue that working mothers engage in fitness and bodywork in addition to the first shift of professional work and the second shift of household labor and childcare. Within this third shift, the goal for women is to 'erase physical evidence of motherhood' and return to the pre-pregnancy self. The cultivation of a body socially defined as 'good' and 'attractive' thus serves as a visible il…
Studying at the source: Ashtanga yoga tourism and the search for authenticity in Mysore, India
Based on a critical reading of the history of Ashtanga yoga, participant observation, and interviews with Americans attending the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, this article explores the notion of authenticity within Ashtanga yoga itself and amongst yoga practitioners journeying to India hoping to find an authentic travel experience. Many of these tourists assume that the yoga experienced in Mysore is more genuine than that p…
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo
Miami University has used Native American imagery to promote itself since its founding. In 1929, Miami teams began using the racist term Redsk*ns. In 1996–1997, they changed the name to RedHawks. Despite the strengthening relationship between the university and the tribe, the racist mascot imagery remained visible in the university community. In 2017–2018, the university returned to Native American imagery by unveiling a new “Heritage Logo” to re…
Young Middle-Class Women, Consumption and Fitness in Contemporary India: ‘To Tackle All That is Thrown Her Way’
This article examines the intersections of fitness, consumption, the middle class and the female body in contemporary India. Having grown up exposed to and interacting with global markets, brands and commodities, young middle-class Indian women seek to engage in cultural practices that distinguish them as members of an upwardly mobile class of urban professionals. For many young women, working out at a gym or fitness centre has become an importan…
Circumstantial intervention: Three perspectives
This article uses our past experiences with ethnography to explore our various interpretations of intervention and/or struggles in conducting interventionist research. By drawing on our personal ex
Studying at the source: Ashtanga yoga tourism and the search for authenticity in Mysore, India
Based on a critical reading of the history of Ashtanga yoga, participant observation, and interviews with Americans attending the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, this article explores the notion of authenticity within Ashtanga yoga itself and amongst yoga practitioners journeying to India hoping to find an authentic travel experience. Many of these tourists assume that the yoga experienced in Mysore is more genuine than that p…
Circumstantial intervention: Three perspectives
This article uses our past experiences with ethnography to explore our various interpretations of intervention and/or struggles in conducting interventionist research. By drawing on our personal ex
Tales from the Ethnographic Field: Navigating Feelings of Guilt and Privilege in the Research Process
This article explores questions of reflexivity, positionality, identity, and emotion within the process of ethnographic research. We reflect on our feelings of privilege and guilt in and through our ethnographic fieldwork and discuss the ways in which these experiences encouraged reflexive thinking and a crucial interrogation of the place of the self in the research process. Specifically, we construct individual vignettes centered on our differin…
Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
The Benares of the West”: The Evolution of Yoga in Los Angeles
This paper explores the relationship between yoga and Los Angeles by focusing on the stories of Paramhansa Yogananda, Indra Devi, and Bikram Choudhury, immigrant yogis who arrived in Los Angeles at different points in the twentieth century to build and sell their own brands of yoga in a diverse, complex, and contested city. We offer a contextualized snapshot of yoga’s history in Los Angeles by interweaving brief biographies of each yogi with spec…
We have to be a little more realistic’: Women’s outdoor recreation experiences in a community hiking group
Grounded in the theoretical framework of ecological feminism, this study explores the tension between constraint and empowerment that often marks women’s participation in outdoor recreation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and thirteen semi-structured interviews, this study examines how women in a co-ed community hiking group in the Midwest region of the United States experience the gendered space of outdoor recreation. Analysis of the observat…
Converging Interests, Unequal Benefits? Tribal Critical Race Theory and Miami University’s Myaamia Heritage Logo
Miami University has used Native American imagery to promote itself since its founding. In 1929, Miami teams began using the racist term Redsk*ns. In 1996–1997, they changed the name to RedHawks. Despite the strengthening relationship between the university and the tribe, the racist mascot imagery remained visible in the university community. In 2017–2018, the university returned to Native American imagery by unveiling a new “Heritage Logo” to re…
Young Middle-Class Women, Consumption and Fitness in Contemporary India: ‘To Tackle All That is Thrown Her Way’
This article examines the intersections of fitness, consumption, the middle class and the female body in contemporary India. Having grown up exposed to and interacting with global markets, brands and commodities, young middle-class Indian women seek to engage in cultural practices that distinguish them as members of an upwardly mobile class of urban professionals. For many young women, working out at a gym or fitness centre has become an importan…
Not America's Game: The Globalization and Post-Westernization of Women's Baseball
This article explores the globalization of women's baseball from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The women's game is largely absent from literature about the global diffusion of baseball, but its growing presence in numerous cultural contexts demands attention. Drawing on ideas from Rumford and Cho, I contend that contemporary women's baseball is best read as an example of post-Westernization, which sets it apart from the men's gam…
Working a Third Shift: Physical Activity and Embodied Motherhood
In their conception of the 'third shift,' Dworkin and Wachs argue that working mothers engage in fitness and bodywork in addition to the first shift of professional work and the second shift of household labor and childcare. Within this third shift, the goal for women is to 'erase physical evidence of motherhood' and return to the pre-pregnancy self. The cultivation of a body socially defined as 'good' and 'attractive' thus serves as a visible il…
We Did It: A Content Analysis of Australian and New Zealand Online News Media Coverage of the Bid Process for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup
The purpose of this study was to examine online news media coverage of the Australia–New Zealand joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following neoliberal feminist theory and a postfeminist framework, the meanings and discourses of women’s empowerment produced in, and disseminated by, Australia and New Zealand’s popular online news media were explored. A content analysis was used to examine 77 domestic online news media articles pub…
A League of Their Own (2022)
In August 2022, Amazon released a new television series titled A League of Their Own that promised to build upon and extend the 1992 film of the same name. Co-created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, the show is not a reboot of the film but rather an adaptation that offers new characters, an expanded plot, and a centering of queerness. Set in 1943, the series follows the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), a women's profess…
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine
The body doesn’t lie: Yoga and embodiment in the higher education classroom
Awareness of and response to embodiment as a foundational element of teaching and learning is increasingly lost in the higher education classroom. The widespread shift to online learning prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic only brought this reality into high relief. However, in this conceptual article, we reflect on teaching and learning as inherently embodied processes and link this reality to the teaching skills of presence and observation. As yo…
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