Somatic Podcast
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Somatic Podcast
Somatic Podcast explores the everyday, ordinary experiences, spaces, cultures, practices, and communities concerning our bodies in motion. Each episode weaves original music and soundscape with stories, research, and interviews on the critical study of sport, recreation, leisure, and physical cultu...
Recent Episodes
21 episodesEp 18 - The Pro Interstate Hall of Fame
For this episode, we recorded the sounds of U.S. Interstate 77, which runs rights next to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. These are the...
Ep 17 - The 'Final Stretch' Of The Presidential 'Race': American Politics and Sporting Metaphors
Check out any of the recent media coverage on 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, and you're bound to hear sporting metaphors used to describe the electi...
Ep 16 - Race, Social Media, and Yoga w/ Shanice Jones Cameron
In this second part of our mini-series on the history and politics of yoga, we play our recent interview with Shanice Jones Cameron about her research...
Ep 15 - The History and Politics of Modern Yoga w/ Dr. Andrea Jain
In this new episode - our first production since January of 2020, which also means our first episode since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, wid...
Ep 14 - New Materialism and the Active Body
In this first episode of 2020, we acknowledge the significant scholarly and theoretical development currently taking shape in the sociology of sport s...
Ep 13 - Idleness, Play and Sport
It sure seems to me like more and more writers and thinkers these days are praising the value and virtues of idleness. In our current era defined by s...
Ep 12 - County Fairs: A Fantasy of (Sporting) Whiteness
Today, counties across the U.S. organize county fairs during the summer months. For millions of Americas, fairs have come to signify family-friendly...
Ep 11 - Golf, Environmentalism, and Anthropocentrism
In July of 2012, the Trump Organization opened a course, Trump International Golf Links, just north of Aberdeen on the northeast coast of Scotland. T...
Ep 10 - Toward a More Critical Sport Management
In this episode of Somatic, we talked with Dr. Newman about his article, and his view on the state of critical research in the sport management field...
Ep 9 - Reflections on Running and Gender
For many people, running is not just a healthy exercise, but an integral activity in the rhythms of their everyday lives. More than this, running ha...
Ep 8 - The Olympics In Putin's Russia
Hosting the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi was a part of growing domestic and international Russian political presence that has taken place under the l...
Ep 7 - The (Embodied) Experience of Train Travel
At its essence, this episode is about the experience of traveling west on Amtrak passenger trains in the United States. Since about 2008, I've person...
Nebraska
A new music track for a future Somatic Podcast episode on the physical culture/bodily experiences of train travel.
Photo is of the Wester...
Ep 6 - Sport Studies and Podcasting
In this episode of Somatic, we talk with Professor Brett Hutchins of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As an Australian Research Council (ARC)...
Ep 5 - The Spaces of Suburbia
In this episode we explore the history and spaces of suburbia, focusing on the role of physical activity in the shaping of suburban life. The story a...
Ep 4 - Embodying Belfast's Feminist Activism
This episode is a discussion with Helen McBride, a young feminist activist living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her graduate historical research explo...
Ep 3 - Pondering Garden Cities
This episode deviates slightly from previous Somatic episodes in that it is a more personal journey of contemplation. In this episode, I talk about m...
Ep 2.5 - NASSS Reflection (Somatic in Brief)
In this episode we took a break from our usual format and tried out something new. We are going to try to stay as close as possible to a monthly sched...
Ep 2 - London Bike Sharing
Bike share programs, sometimes also referred to as cycle-hire schemes, are becoming an increasingly common place part of transportation infrastructure...
Ep 1 - Olympics Special
The Olympics is one of the biggest sporting events in the world that connects to a wide array of global and local political, economic, social, cultura...