M D Giardina
Biographic Data
| ID | 67913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D Giardina |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D |
| FAMILY NAME | Giardina |
| SIGNATURE | GIARDINA M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9128-5974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China
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 …
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…
Through the Perilous Fight: A Case Analysis of Professional Wrestling During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The rapidly escalating COVID-19 pandemic has forced the sport industry into unchartered territory. Beginning on March 11, 2020, when the National Basketball Association suspended its season, the American sports landscape has consequently encountered an unprecedented number of temporary suspensions, postponements, and cancellations. Although most major leagues and their pertaining sports have halted to a sudden stop, professional wrestling has sur…
(Post?)qualitative inquiry in sport, exercise, and health: Notes on a methodologically contested present
In this article, I address some of the emerging debates surrounding the ontological turn in qualitative inquiry. To do so, I highlight recent conversations in the field related to evidence, knowledge and research practices. Framing these conversations as part of a broader ‘methodologically contested present’ within qualitative inquiry, I attend to the ways in which qualitative researchers in the field of sport, exercise and health-related discipl…
Flying Solo: Globalization, Neoliberal Individualism, and the Contested Celebrity of Li Na
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…
Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent: Cultural Studies After 9/11
Training the Body for Healthism: ReifyingVitalityIn and Through the Clinical Gaze of the Neoliberal Fitness Club
Shannon Jette for her thoughtful and insightful feedback to this article and project more broadly.NotesThe fitness assessment consists of a meeting with a personal training sales staff member (who is not required to be certified in personal training). During the meeting, members are asked a serious of questions to identify their aspirations for joining the gym and the goals they hope to attain. Afterward, the sales staff member presents a propose…
Embracing the Social in Social Media: An Analysis of the Social Media Marketing Strategies of the Los Angeles Kings
This article addresses the rise of social media in professional sport and the varying ways in which sport organizations have interacted with consumers in the social media environment. We examine one particularly interesting case: The innovative social media marketing practices of the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization, most especially through its twitter account @LAKings. Through the use of digital ethnography, we analyze and interpret officia…
Articulating Fatness: Obesity and the Scientific Tautologies of Bodily Accumulation in Neoliberal Times
Truth Untold? Evidence, Knowledge, and Research Practice(s)
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…
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…
Sport Without Guarantees: Toward a Cultural Studies That Matters
Disciplining qualitative research
Qualitative research exists in a time of global uncertainty. Around the world, governments are attempting to regulate scientific inquiry by defining what counts as ‘good’ science. These regulatory activities raise fundamental, philosophical epistemological, political and pedagogical issues for scholarship and freedom of speech in the academy. This essay contests this methodological fundamentalism, and interrogates the politics of re‐emergent scie…
Introduction: Cultural Inter/connections
Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport
As a historian of the present, Michel Foucault sought to undermine modern vernaculars by disrupting the certainties that govern contemporary ways of thinking. Foucault’s interventions encourage us to detach from established knowledge, ask fresh questions, make new connections, and understand why it is important to do so. Given Foucault’s generative role in intellectual thought — evidenced most especially by extensive citation and frequent discuss…
Bending It Like Beckham' In The Global Popular: Stylish Hybridity, Performativity, and the Politics of Representation
Disciplining qualitative research
Qualitative research exists in a time of global uncertainty. Around the world, governments are attempting to regulate scientific inquiry by defining what counts as ‘good’ science. These regulatory activities raise fundamental, philosophical epistemological, political and pedagogical issues for scholarship and freedom of speech in the academy. This essay contests this methodological fundamentalism, and interrogates the politics of re‐emergent scie…
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…
Bending It Like Beckham' In The Global Popular: Stylish Hybridity, Performativity, and the Politics of Representation
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…
Sport Without Guarantees: Toward a Cultural Studies That Matters
Training the Body for Healthism: ReifyingVitalityIn and Through the Clinical Gaze of the Neoliberal Fitness Club
Shannon Jette for her thoughtful and insightful feedback to this article and project more broadly.NotesThe fitness assessment consists of a meeting with a personal training sales staff member (who is not required to be certified in personal training). During the meeting, members are asked a serious of questions to identify their aspirations for joining the gym and the goals they hope to attain. Afterward, the sales staff member presents a propose…
Flying Solo: Globalization, Neoliberal Individualism, and the Contested Celebrity of Li Na
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…
Embracing the Social in Social Media: An Analysis of the Social Media Marketing Strategies of the Los Angeles Kings
This article addresses the rise of social media in professional sport and the varying ways in which sport organizations have interacted with consumers in the social media environment. We examine one particularly interesting case: The innovative social media marketing practices of the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization, most especially through its twitter account @LAKings. Through the use of digital ethnography, we analyze and interpret officia…
Truth Untold? Evidence, Knowledge, and Research Practice(s)
Introduction: Cultural Inter/connections
Articulating Fatness: Obesity and the Scientific Tautologies of Bodily Accumulation in Neoliberal Times
Bending It Like Beckham' In The Global Popular: Stylish Hybridity, Performativity, and the Politics of Representation
Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport
As a historian of the present, Michel Foucault sought to undermine modern vernaculars by disrupting the certainties that govern contemporary ways of thinking. Foucault’s interventions encourage us to detach from established knowledge, ask fresh questions, make new connections, and understand why it is important to do so. Given Foucault’s generative role in intellectual thought — evidenced most especially by extensive citation and frequent discuss…
Introduction: Cultural Inter/connections
Disciplining qualitative research
Qualitative research exists in a time of global uncertainty. Around the world, governments are attempting to regulate scientific inquiry by defining what counts as ‘good’ science. These regulatory activities raise fundamental, philosophical epistemological, political and pedagogical issues for scholarship and freedom of speech in the academy. This essay contests this methodological fundamentalism, and interrogates the politics of re‐emergent scie…
Sport Without Guarantees: Toward a Cultural Studies That Matters
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…
Articulating Fatness: Obesity and the Scientific Tautologies of Bodily Accumulation in Neoliberal Times
Truth Untold? Evidence, Knowledge, and Research Practice(s)
Embracing the Social in Social Media: An Analysis of the Social Media Marketing Strategies of the Los Angeles Kings
This article addresses the rise of social media in professional sport and the varying ways in which sport organizations have interacted with consumers in the social media environment. We examine one particularly interesting case: The innovative social media marketing practices of the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization, most especially through its twitter account @LAKings. Through the use of digital ethnography, we analyze and interpret officia…
Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent: Cultural Studies After 9/11
Training the Body for Healthism: ReifyingVitalityIn and Through the Clinical Gaze of the Neoliberal Fitness Club
Shannon Jette for her thoughtful and insightful feedback to this article and project more broadly.NotesThe fitness assessment consists of a meeting with a personal training sales staff member (who is not required to be certified in personal training). During the meeting, members are asked a serious of questions to identify their aspirations for joining the gym and the goals they hope to attain. Afterward, the sales staff member presents a propose…
(Post?)qualitative inquiry in sport, exercise, and health: Notes on a methodologically contested present
In this article, I address some of the emerging debates surrounding the ontological turn in qualitative inquiry. To do so, I highlight recent conversations in the field related to evidence, knowledge and research practices. Framing these conversations as part of a broader ‘methodologically contested present’ within qualitative inquiry, I attend to the ways in which qualitative researchers in the field of sport, exercise and health-related discipl…
Flying Solo: Globalization, Neoliberal Individualism, and the Contested Celebrity of Li Na
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…
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…
Through the Perilous Fight: A Case Analysis of Professional Wrestling During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The rapidly escalating COVID-19 pandemic has forced the sport industry into unchartered territory. Beginning on March 11, 2020, when the National Basketball Association suspended its season, the American sports landscape has consequently encountered an unprecedented number of temporary suspensions, postponements, and cancellations. Although most major leagues and their pertaining sports have halted to a sudden stop, professional wrestling has sur…
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China
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 …
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