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Friday, November 3 • 08:00 - 09:15
Session 5A: Critically ‘Mapping’ Physical Culture in the Sporting Metropolis: Baltimore

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Organizers & Presiders: Tyler Sigmon, Towson University; Ryan King-White, Towson University; Jake Bustad, Towson University

Finding Sport and Constructing Identity in Baltimore: Young Urban Professionals, Physical Culture, and the Neoliberal City
Eric Stone, University of Maryland, College Park

Places to Play: Urban Public Space and Privatized Adult Recreation
Jacob Bustad, Towson University
Tyler Sigmon, Towson University

The “Baltimore Model”: Neoliberalism, Urban Golf, and the Baltimore Municipal Golf Corporation (BMGC)
Ryan King-White, Towson University

The Turf War:  Private Adult Recreation in Patterson Park
Tyler Sigmon, Towson University

Moderators
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Jacob Bustad

The body, the baby weight, and the wardrobe: Materiality and embodied motherhood, Towson University
Clothing is often perceived as an effort to craft a particular body image and thus an accompanying identity (Guy & Banim, 2000). Previous research has explored the relationship between clothing and perception of body shape changes during pregnancy (Sohn & Bye, 2014), and many women... Read More →
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Ryan King-White

Associate Professor, Towson University
Although the recent college admissions scandals were presented as egregious examples of ‘bending of the rules’ by the so-called 1%, we believe the story is being too myopically. Put differently, the scandals are not about the top 1% buying their way into universities, but about... Read More →
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Speakers
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Eric Stone

“Do-It-Yourself”: Exploring the Entrepreneurial-Self in Sport for Development and Peace, University of Maryland
In light of the ongoing call for more critical sociological approaches to Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), scholars have turned to theories of governmentality that offer alternative perspectives of power and power relations to examine how SDP initiatives facilitate social inclusion... Read More →

Friday November 3, 2017 08:00 - 09:15 CDT
Augustus III
  Paper Session

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