CEWMA
Critical Embodied Women’s Martial Art (CEWMA) International Research Group is a collective of international scholars engaging in 10 different martial arts for a combined over 100 years. We are focused on researching women and non-binary athletes’ experiences in martial arts, moving beyond simple “women’s empowerment” narratives to consider how women and non-binary people are advancing martial arts training and pedagogies, resisting masculinist and patriarchal traditions, and leading the next generation of recreational and high performance athletes. Together with Drs. Fabiana Turelli (University of Manitoba), Tricia McGuire Adams (University of Toronto), Kate Sylvester (independent scholar), and Chloe Bellec (Tohoku University), Dr. Joseph is advancing knowledge on embodiment and martial arts.
Re-Creation Collective
The Re-Creation Collective is a project-driven collaborative of scholars, practitioners, policy-makers, and knowledge holders working in the areas of sport, recreation, physical activity, and other movement cultures. Collectively, we have lived and scholarly experience related to the intersections of racism, settler colonialism, (dis)ableism, sanism, (hetero)sexism, transmisia, fatmisia, Islamophobia, and barriers around poverty and citizenship.
Co-Founders Dr. Danielle Peers (University of Alberta) and Dr. Tricia McGuire Adams' (University of Toronto) work with Dr. Janelle Joseph to secure funding and advance knowledge in the sport and recreation sectors.
Dr. Fabiana Turelli demonstrates a karate attack
Women lead students to practice capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial arts)
Videos
This 15-minute video poem based on the article ‘Awakening to Elsewheres’ illustrates the Re-Creation Collective’s passion for sport and physical activity, the many ways we have been only partially included, and our dreaming about how to do sport differently.
Eales, L., McGuire-Adams, T., Joseph, J., Peers, D., Bridel, W. (2021). Elsewheres: A Video-poem.
Books
Joseph, J. (2017). Sport and the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada, and the Caribbean diaspora. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Joseph, J. & Crichlow, W. (Eds.) (2015). Alternative offender rehabilitation and social justice: Arts and physical engagement in criminal justice and community settings. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Joseph, J., Darnell, S., & Nakamura, Y. (Eds.) (2012). Race and sport in Canada: Intersecting inequalities. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press (Forward by Rinaldo Walcott).