J Joseph
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1496 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Joseph |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Joseph |
| FIRMA | JOSEPH J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4018-2908 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Introductory essay
A tale of embodied domination, queer feelings, and decolonial disruption in sport
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Palestinian parkour in Gaza as embodied decolonial praxis and land-based physical activity under occupation
As a physical culture, parkour sits at the intersection of spatial resistance and physical self-discipline, requiring one to disobey rules of urban space while simultaneously enacting control over one's own body. Across the occupied Gaza Strip, multi-generational parkour groups have become popular amidst the backdrop of restricted personal freedoms and physical cultural opportunities. Since 7 October 2023, escalating genocide, structural violence…
The Queen's Gambit
The Queen of Basketball is a film based on the life of Lusia (Lucy) Mae Harris Stewart, a champion of US women's university basketball credited with changing the face of the sport in the 1970s. The imagery of the film shows a Delta State University, a Mississippi community, and a nation that supported Lucy's remarkable talent. At the same time, Confederate flags flew, there were no professional women's teams for her to play on after graduation, a…
Leisure as black survival
Within Canadian leisure spaces anti-Black racism can make survival difficult, not least for those who identify as two-spirit lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans+ (QT+). The Black QT+ Ballroom scene in Canada is a leisure practice that began in Toronto within groups of chosen families called 'houses' that offer participants a physical and social place of love, comfort, refuge, leisure, physical activity, fashion, dance, music and art. The even…
“We Say Nah!”
The intersectional challenges faced by Black womxn graduate students in Canadian post-secondary education and academia are grounded in misogynoir (gendered racism) and microaggressions. In this collaborative critical autoethnography, the authors unveil the legacy of Black feminist theory in academia’s pursuit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. This work centres on a profound act of refusal; Black womxn scholars refuse prescribed narratives and …
Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals in Black Canadian Studies
Whiteness, Canadian university athletic administration, and anti-racism leadership
This paper theorises ‘whiteness’ in relation to systems of power, leadership, and oppression within post-secondary sport athletic departments in Ontario, Canada. Using results from the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Anti-Racism Project, we position whiteness as a significant and unavoidable obstacle to productive anti-racism leadership and labour within university athletics. While many Canadian university athletic departments have publicly em…
Indigenous dance, cultural continuity, and resistance
Contending with the structural erasure and appropriation of their land, culture, history, and traditions imposed by the settler state, Palestinians have adopted/adapted traditional cultural elements to further their nationalist aspirations and assert their rights as Palestine’s Indigenous people. In the diaspora, Palestinians practice and perform the dabke folkdance, as a tool of anti-colonial memory maintenance and knowledge transfer. In this co…
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue
This paper examines the intersection of Black hair aesthetics and three dimensions of safe sport: environmental and physical safety, relational safety, and optimizing sport experiences. Black hair, a fundamental aspect of cultural identity for people of African descent, has been historically stigmatized; an issue that extends into sports yet remains unexplored. Through a predominantly Canadian perspective, we define Black hair aesthetics as encom…
Listen, Tell, Show
Stories are always grounded in personal, collective, and ancestral experiences and come in a variety of visual, performance, textile, and text-based forms. Physical culture participation and politics can be better understood by engaging with the stories of people facing ongoing colonial and epistemic injustices, intersectional oppressions, as well as structural and cultural racism. In contrast to dominant trends in the cultural politics of sport,…
We become gardens
In this paper, members of the Re-creation Collective offer key methodological practices that nourish us and our work together. These include deep visiting, intersectional praxis, (re)visiting accessibility, and accountability revisited. This methodological sharing is not intended to be prescriptive: there is not one ‘recipe’ for doing this work. We offer an emergent collection of hows, rather than a predictable list of whats. Nor is this sharing …
Whitewashed and Blacked Out
Despite a longstanding relationship with hockey, Black Canadians are typically erased from dominant histories of Canada and sport. Erasure is detrimental to Black prosperity because it encourages social death, a process that socially marginalizes and dehumanizes Black Canadians. In response to Black erasure, we detail counter-narratives that challenge the historically whitewashed account of hockey’s origin in Canada. We celebrate the impact and c…
Awakening to Elsewheres
“Mainstream” spaces of movement cultures within settler colonial states invite bodies that are White, cis, able, thin, and heterosexual, just as “mainstream” academic space validates knowledge about the world produced by these very subjects. Such mainstream assemblages are embedded within the broader structure of settler colonialism, mutually buttressed by White supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and (neo)imperialism. In this article, a Collective of s…
Black Women Coaches in Community
Mentorship programs have been shown to help under-represented women navigate their environments, but little research has been done on mentorship programs in sport coaching in Canada. The first of its kind in Canada, the Black Female Coach Mentorship Program (BFCMP) created by the Black Canadian Coaches Association in partnership with the Coaching Association of Canada caters to an historically excluded population: Black, Biracial, and Indigenous …
Lessons From Critical Race Theory
Background: Outdoor experiential education (OEE) is often presented as a neutral and equitable curricular practice with positive learning outcomes. However, few studies have examined the experiences of racialized and queer White settler students or the representation of Whiteness in OEE curricular documents. Purpose: This article explores Whiteness, racialization, and Indigenous erasure in OEE as an undergraduate curricular practice at a Kinesiol…
Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’
The Black female body has been vilified, surveilled, and viewed as ‘obese’ and irresponsible for centuries in Western societies. For just as long, some Black women have resisted their mischaracterizations. Instead they have embraced a ‘fat’ identity. But little research has demonstrated how Black fat women participate in sport. The purpose of this study is to show how Black fat women who run use social media to unapologetically celebrate Blacknes…
Assemblages and Co-emergent Corpomaterialities in Postsecondary Education
Building on a new materialist ontology, this article explores the significance of viewing the postsecondary institution and learner as assemblages co-emerging in material relationality. Bodies of thought from social cognitive neuroscience, somatic psychotherapy, and physical cultural studies inform an analysis of the evaluation culture predominant in Western postsecondary education. These disciplines are used to interrogate representational perfo…
What if what the professor knows is not diverse enough for us?’
This study builds on research that found a significant lack of racial diversity in Canadian university kinesiology programs. We extend previous findings by including the experiences of students who reveal how whiteness structures every aspect of their kinesiology education. We employ Critical Race Theory and theories of whiteness within a case study of eight kinesiology faculties in Canada. The mixed methods data collection included: (a) analysis…
Misogynoir in women’s sport media
Overt and subtle misogynoir (anti-Black misogyny) pervade sport and sport media, as women in the Black diaspora are rarely in control of sporting regulations or their media representations. One recourse racialized athletes have at their disposal, however, is active resistance. This paper provides a textual analysis of the intolerable misogynoir aimed at tennis professional Naomi Osaka, and key moments in her media (mis)representations. Results re…
Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’
The ‘kiwi bloke’ – practical, tough, and unemotional – is a national archetype of masculinity based on a colonial settler history in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Such nationally specific masculinities, however, are always created in relation to international forces. This study reveals the ways men negotiate the ‘kiwi bloke’ identity through their participation in an Afro-Brazilian martial art: capoeira. On one hand, Capoeira in New Zealand/Aotearoa offe…
Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity
Full Issue
This issue of The Foundation Review offers new insights into the growing field of global community philanthropy. Several articles look more deeply into specific nations: retrospective assessments of the development of community giving in Vietnam and Russia sit alongside a more theoretical reflection grounded in the South African experience of community giving as a vehicle for consciousness-raising. This issue also offers more practical assessment…
Sport in the Black Atlantic
This book outlines the ways in which sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto's urban and suburban neighbourhoods, finding jobs, returning home for visits, and traveling to other diasporic locations involved some contact wi…
The practice of capoeira
This article draws on ethnographic research with Canadians who practise the Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira, to discuss, renew and perform African heritage, black circulating cultures and Canadian nationalism. I make several incursions into Paul Gilroy's theory of the Black Atlantic. First I draw attention farther north to Canada to show that diaspora cultures reference an 'elsewhere' as they also come to represent 'here'; capoeira is used t…
Going to Brazil
In this article I use a case study of capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian martial art/dance/game) in Canada to bring together sport and transnationality literatures. I show that understandings of transnationality can be extended through both investigating people born and raised in the North, since they play an important role in creating transnational spaces, and attending to the corporeal means that people deploy to connect to a homeland or 'travel' to a…
A Diaspora Approach to Sport Tourism
The concept of diaspora offers an alternative approach to understanding sport tourism. Sport-related travel is a powerful diasporic resource that permits migrants to connect simultaneously to their nation, region, or cultural heritage and to their dispersed peers. This ethnographic study of a Caribbean-Canadian group's cricket tourism in St. Lucia, West Indies reveals that nostalgia sport tourists reminisce about their sporting heroes and regiona…
The Logical Paradox of the Cultural Commodity
The examination of an Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira , offers a sport-tourism nexus in which to study authenticity discourses. This article, based on an ethnography of a capoeira group in Canada, exposes teachers’ representations of “authentic capoeira” as logical paradoxes. Teachers market what they know is neither original nor pure as “authentic” to take advantage of the expectations, desires, and economic resources of their Canadian stud…
Misogynoir in women’s sport media
Overt and subtle misogynoir (anti-Black misogyny) pervade sport and sport media, as women in the Black diaspora are rarely in control of sporting regulations or their media representations. One recourse racialized athletes have at their disposal, however, is active resistance. This paper provides a textual analysis of the intolerable misogynoir aimed at tennis professional Naomi Osaka, and key moments in her media (mis)representations. Results re…
Culture, community, consciousness
This study shows the utility of the concept of diaspora for physical cultural studies, and particularly for thinking through sport in a Canadian setting. The capacity of diaspora theory to specify a matrix of real and imagined cross-border cultural, kinship, and social relationships makes it useful for understanding community (re)generation in sport settings. Relatively little about recreational cricket in the Caribbean and its diaspora has been …
Around the boundary
This article examines the alcohol-infused leisure practices of a group of older Afro-Caribbean men in Canada. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Greater Toronto Area, which has a large diasporic Caribbean community, this article examines the ways alcohol consumption at cricket grounds plays an integral role in the reproduction of club members' gender as well as their homeland cultures, age, class and national identities. In 2008 an…
Sport in the Black Atlantic
This book outlines the ways in which sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto's urban and suburban neighbourhoods, finding jobs, returning home for visits, and traveling to other diasporic locations involved some contact wi…
Listen, Tell, Show
Stories are always grounded in personal, collective, and ancestral experiences and come in a variety of visual, performance, textile, and text-based forms. Physical culture participation and politics can be better understood by engaging with the stories of people facing ongoing colonial and epistemic injustices, intersectional oppressions, as well as structural and cultural racism. In contrast to dominant trends in the cultural politics of sport,…
Awakening to Elsewheres
“Mainstream” spaces of movement cultures within settler colonial states invite bodies that are White, cis, able, thin, and heterosexual, just as “mainstream” academic space validates knowledge about the world produced by these very subjects. Such mainstream assemblages are embedded within the broader structure of settler colonialism, mutually buttressed by White supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and (neo)imperialism. In this article, a Collective of s…
What if what the professor knows is not diverse enough for us?’
This study builds on research that found a significant lack of racial diversity in Canadian university kinesiology programs. We extend previous findings by including the experiences of students who reveal how whiteness structures every aspect of their kinesiology education. We employ Critical Race Theory and theories of whiteness within a case study of eight kinesiology faculties in Canada. The mixed methods data collection included: (a) analysis…
Indigenous dance, cultural continuity, and resistance
Contending with the structural erasure and appropriation of their land, culture, history, and traditions imposed by the settler state, Palestinians have adopted/adapted traditional cultural elements to further their nationalist aspirations and assert their rights as Palestine’s Indigenous people. In the diaspora, Palestinians practice and perform the dabke folkdance, as a tool of anti-colonial memory maintenance and knowledge transfer. In this co…
Black Women Coaches in Community
Mentorship programs have been shown to help under-represented women navigate their environments, but little research has been done on mentorship programs in sport coaching in Canada. The first of its kind in Canada, the Black Female Coach Mentorship Program (BFCMP) created by the Black Canadian Coaches Association in partnership with the Coaching Association of Canada caters to an historically excluded population: Black, Biracial, and Indigenous …
Black Hair Is a Safe Sport Issue
This paper examines the intersection of Black hair aesthetics and three dimensions of safe sport: environmental and physical safety, relational safety, and optimizing sport experiences. Black hair, a fundamental aspect of cultural identity for people of African descent, has been historically stigmatized; an issue that extends into sports yet remains unexplored. Through a predominantly Canadian perspective, we define Black hair aesthetics as encom…
Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’
The Black female body has been vilified, surveilled, and viewed as ‘obese’ and irresponsible for centuries in Western societies. For just as long, some Black women have resisted their mischaracterizations. Instead they have embraced a ‘fat’ identity. But little research has demonstrated how Black fat women participate in sport. The purpose of this study is to show how Black fat women who run use social media to unapologetically celebrate Blacknes…
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Whitewashed and Blacked Out
Despite a longstanding relationship with hockey, Black Canadians are typically erased from dominant histories of Canada and sport. Erasure is detrimental to Black prosperity because it encourages social death, a process that socially marginalizes and dehumanizes Black Canadians. In response to Black erasure, we detail counter-narratives that challenge the historically whitewashed account of hockey’s origin in Canada. We celebrate the impact and c…
Man's Posture
Anti-Intellectualism' and Genetics
Language and Identity
Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from vario
Turkey and the European Union
Turkey and the European Union makes a scholarly contribution to the debate over Turkey's participation in the European integration process and the EU's future enlargement. It explores the recent histo
The Logical Paradox of the Cultural Commodity
The examination of an Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira , offers a sport-tourism nexus in which to study authenticity discourses. This article, based on an ethnography of a capoeira group in Canada, exposes teachers’ representations of “authentic capoeira” as logical paradoxes. Teachers market what they know is neither original nor pure as “authentic” to take advantage of the expectations, desires, and economic resources of their Canadian stud…
Going to Brazil
In this article I use a case study of capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian martial art/dance/game) in Canada to bring together sport and transnationality literatures. I show that understandings of transnationality can be extended through both investigating people born and raised in the North, since they play an important role in creating transnational spaces, and attending to the corporeal means that people deploy to connect to a homeland or 'travel' to a…
Congressional Fellowship Report
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A Diaspora Approach to Sport Tourism
The concept of diaspora offers an alternative approach to understanding sport tourism. Sport-related travel is a powerful diasporic resource that permits migrants to connect simultaneously to their nation, region, or cultural heritage and to their dispersed peers. This ethnographic study of a Caribbean-Canadian group's cricket tourism in St. Lucia, West Indies reveals that nostalgia sport tourists reminisce about their sporting heroes and regiona…
Race, Sport and Politics
Around the boundary
This article examines the alcohol-infused leisure practices of a group of older Afro-Caribbean men in Canada. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Greater Toronto Area, which has a large diasporic Caribbean community, this article examines the ways alcohol consumption at cricket grounds plays an integral role in the reproduction of club members' gender as well as their homeland cultures, age, class and national identities. In 2008 an…
The practice of capoeira
This article draws on ethnographic research with Canadians who practise the Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira, to discuss, renew and perform African heritage, black circulating cultures and Canadian nationalism. I make several incursions into Paul Gilroy's theory of the Black Atlantic. First I draw attention farther north to Canada to show that diaspora cultures reference an 'elsewhere' as they also come to represent 'here'; capoeira is used t…
Culture, community, consciousness
This study shows the utility of the concept of diaspora for physical cultural studies, and particularly for thinking through sport in a Canadian setting. The capacity of diaspora theory to specify a matrix of real and imagined cross-border cultural, kinship, and social relationships makes it useful for understanding community (re)generation in sport settings. Relatively little about recreational cricket in the Caribbean and its diaspora has been …
A narrative exploration of gender performances and gender relations in the Caribbean diaspora
This essay uses a narrative inquiry approach to understand diasporas as gendered phenomena that manifest across multiple borders. Ethnographic exploration of a cricket and social club comprised mainly of older Caribbean men drew attention to the women in their lives. Most of their girlfriends and wives do not play the sport; nevertheless, women are essential to the use of a cricket subculture to remake a Caribbean diasporic consciousness. Women a…
Full Issue
This issue of The Foundation Review offers new insights into the growing field of global community philanthropy. Several articles look more deeply into specific nations: retrospective assessments of the development of community giving in Vietnam and Russia sit alongside a more theoretical reflection grounded in the South African experience of community giving as a vehicle for consciousness-raising. This issue also offers more practical assessment…
Sport in the Black Atlantic
This book outlines the ways in which sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto's urban and suburban neighbourhoods, finding jobs, returning home for visits, and traveling to other diasporic locations involved some contact wi…
Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’
The ‘kiwi bloke’ – practical, tough, and unemotional – is a national archetype of masculinity based on a colonial settler history in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Such nationally specific masculinities, however, are always created in relation to international forces. This study reveals the ways men negotiate the ‘kiwi bloke’ identity through their participation in an Afro-Brazilian martial art: capoeira. On one hand, Capoeira in New Zealand/Aotearoa offe…
Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity
Lessons From Critical Race Theory
Background: Outdoor experiential education (OEE) is often presented as a neutral and equitable curricular practice with positive learning outcomes. However, few studies have examined the experiences of racialized and queer White settler students or the representation of Whiteness in OEE curricular documents. Purpose: This article explores Whiteness, racialization, and Indigenous erasure in OEE as an undergraduate curricular practice at a Kinesiol…
Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’
The Black female body has been vilified, surveilled, and viewed as ‘obese’ and irresponsible for centuries in Western societies. For just as long, some Black women have resisted their mischaracterizations. Instead they have embraced a ‘fat’ identity. But little research has demonstrated how Black fat women participate in sport. The purpose of this study is to show how Black fat women who run use social media to unapologetically celebrate Blacknes…
Assemblages and Co-emergent Corpomaterialities in Postsecondary Education
Building on a new materialist ontology, this article explores the significance of viewing the postsecondary institution and learner as assemblages co-emerging in material relationality. Bodies of thought from social cognitive neuroscience, somatic psychotherapy, and physical cultural studies inform an analysis of the evaluation culture predominant in Western postsecondary education. These disciplines are used to interrogate representational perfo…
What if what the professor knows is not diverse enough for us?’
This study builds on research that found a significant lack of racial diversity in Canadian university kinesiology programs. We extend previous findings by including the experiences of students who reveal how whiteness structures every aspect of their kinesiology education. We employ Critical Race Theory and theories of whiteness within a case study of eight kinesiology faculties in Canada. The mixed methods data collection included: (a) analysis…
Misogynoir in women’s sport media
Overt and subtle misogynoir (anti-Black misogyny) pervade sport and sport media, as women in the Black diaspora are rarely in control of sporting regulations or their media representations. One recourse racialized athletes have at their disposal, however, is active resistance. This paper provides a textual analysis of the intolerable misogynoir aimed at tennis professional Naomi Osaka, and key moments in her media (mis)representations. Results re…
Awakening to Elsewheres
“Mainstream” spaces of movement cultures within settler colonial states invite bodies that are White, cis, able, thin, and heterosexual, just as “mainstream” academic space validates knowledge about the world produced by these very subjects. Such mainstream assemblages are embedded within the broader structure of settler colonialism, mutually buttressed by White supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and (neo)imperialism. In this article, a Collective of s…
Black Women Coaches in Community
Mentorship programs have been shown to help under-represented women navigate their environments, but little research has been done on mentorship programs in sport coaching in Canada. The first of its kind in Canada, the Black Female Coach Mentorship Program (BFCMP) created by the Black Canadian Coaches Association in partnership with the Coaching Association of Canada caters to an historically excluded population: Black, Biracial, and Indigenous …
We become gardens
In this paper, members of the Re-creation Collective offer key methodological practices that nourish us and our work together. These include deep visiting, intersectional praxis, (re)visiting accessibility, and accountability revisited. This methodological sharing is not intended to be prescriptive: there is not one ‘recipe’ for doing this work. We offer an emergent collection of hows, rather than a predictable list of whats. Nor is this sharing …
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