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Joshua Newman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University and affiliate faculty member with the University's interdisciplinary Cultural Studies program. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the social, ethical, and cultural aspects of sport and physical activity, critical methods of cultural inquiry, cultural economy of tourism, performance culture, and sport and globalization. His most recent research problematizes the seemingly banal emergence of a ‘new sporting South’: a contextually-powerful intersection of neoliberal market hegemony, neoconservative cultural politics, and the physical cultures of the American South. To this end, he has published a series of articles in journals such as Cultural StudiesóCritical Methodologies, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Sociology of Sport Journal, and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport which critically examine how local sporting bodies, spectacles, and practices [re]produce iniquity in the arena and beyond. His work on intercollegiate sport and ‘Dixie South whiteness’ complicates our taken-for-granted ideas regarding athletics, mascots, spectator identities, and the race-, gender-, and class-based power dynamics that operate on each. His more recent ethnographic studies of ‘NASCAR Nation’ explain how religious, political, and corporate intermediaries have seized ‘America’s fastest growing sport’ in an attempt to redefine cultural citizenship within George W. Bush’s broader NASCAR Nation. He is the process of completing two books: The Cultural Politics of Sport: A Pedagogical Introduction to be published with Springer in early 2009 and a book (with Mike Giardina) on NASCAR and neoliberalism (also due to be published in 2009). 

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