Research
The IDEAS Research Lab has 4 main priorities: indigeneity, diaspora, equity and anti-racism—all related to sport and the moving body.
Our projects center efforts to decolonize kinesiology as a discipline, sport, and physical cultures more broadly. We aim to bring indigenous ways of thinking, being, researching and doing from Asia, Africa, Polynesia, South America, and across Turtle Island into movement studies. Our research on cricket, kizomba, soca, and capoeira demonstrates our broad passions related to diasporas in Canada. The equity and anti-racism work we do is firmly rooted in intersectional social justice and committed to revealing the fissures and opportunities within Canadian post-secondary and recreational sport systems. Our priorities are leadership, leisure and learning.
Awakening To Elsewheres in the Sociology of Sport Journal by The Re-Creation Collective, artwork by Rachel A. Mishenene
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.
Lightning Talk with Dr. Janelle Joseph
In this presentation, Dr. Joseph highlights initial findings from an embodied leadership program at University of Toronto. Students who identify as racialized non-binary, cis-, and trans-women participated in a variety of movement practices (boxing, strength training, dance) and learned about self-confidence, balance, boundaries and other essential leadership skills.
Introducing Dr. Janelle Joseph
Dr. Joseph describes her interest in race, education, sport and physical culture, multiculturalism—how we get along and learn from one another—and resistance, including activism and critical race theory. She reflects on her own education journey and her motivations for becoming a professor.
See the full video series on Windvane.
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).
The Ontario University Athletics Report
Canadian universities are not immune to racism. The IDEAS Research Lab 2021 project illuminates racial demographics, experiences and knowledge of racism, and tools for anti-racist change among student-athletes, coaches and administrators in Ontario, Canada.
Download the full report here.
Refereed Articles
Kriger, D. Keyser-Verrault, A. Joseph, J. & Peers, D. (under review). The Operationalizing Intersectionality Framework, Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology
McGuire-Adams, T., Joseph, J. Eales, L., Peers, D., Bridel, W., Hamdon, E., & Chen C. (under review). Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying embodied experinces of (be)longing. Sociology of Sport Journal.
Hamdonah, Z* & Joseph, J (under review). Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence through Music and Physical Culture: Palestinian Sumud and Dancing the Dabke, International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Joseph, J & Kerr, E. (2021). Assemblages and Co-emergent Corpomaterialities in Postsecondary Education: Pedagogical Lessons from Somatic Psychology and Physical Cultures, Somatechnics, 11(3), 413–431.
Ashdown Franks, G.,* & Joseph, J. (2021). Mind your business and leave my rolls alone: A Case study of fat Black women runners' decolonial resistance. Societies 11(95), 1-17.
Balter, A-S., Gores, D., van Rhijn, T. Katz, J, Kassies, I. Gleason, M. & Joseph, J. (2021) An Outcome evaluation of a professional development opportunity focusing on education for early learning professionals. eceLINK, 5(1), 18-32.
Joseph, J., Williams, B., & Lewis, T. (2021). The Exploring Difference Workshop: Adapting group relations to explore questions of difference and antiracism in Toronto, Canada. Organizational and Social Dynamics 21(1), 40–55.
Nachman, J.*, Joseph, J. & Fusco, C. (2021). ‘What if what the professor knows is not diverse enough for us?”: Whiteness in Canadian Kinesiology programs, Sport, Education, and Society.
Gauthier, V.*, Joseph, J. & Fusco, C. (2021). Lessons from Critical Race Theory: Outdoor Experiential Education and Whiteness in Kinesiology, Journal of Experiential Education, 44(4) 409-425.
Joseph, J. & Kriger, D. (2021). Towards a Decolonizing Kinesiology Ethics Model. Quest, 1-17.
Razack, S.* & Joseph, J. (2020). Misogynoir in Women’s Sport Media: Race, Nation, and Diaspora in the Representation of Naomi Osaka. Media, Culture and Society, 43(2), 291-308.
Joseph, J. & Falcous, M. (2017). Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’: Accessing mosaic masculinities through Afro-Brazilian sport in New Zealand Aotearoa. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11(2), 258-273.
Joseph, J. (2014). Culture, community, consciousness: The Caribbean diaspora. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 49(6), 669-687.
Joseph, J. (2014). A narrative exploration of gender performances and gender relations in the Caribbean diaspora. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 22(2), 168-182.
Almeida, M., Joseph, J., Palma, A. & Jorge Soares, A. (2013). Marketing Strategies within an African Brazilian martial art. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 16(10), 1346-1359.
Joseph, J. (2013). What should I reveal?: Expanding researcher reflexivity in ethnographic research. Sport History Review, 44(1), 6-24.
Joseph, J. & Donnelly, M. (2012). Reflections on ethnography, ethics, and inebriation. Leisure/Loisir, 36(3-4), 357-372.
Joseph, J. (2012). The practice of capoeira: Black diaspora discourses in Canada. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(6), 1078-1095.
Joseph, J. (2011). Around the boundary: Alcohol and older Caribbean-Canadian men. Leisure Studies, 31(2), 147-163.
Joseph, J. (2011). A diaspora approach to sport tourism. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 35(2), 146-167.
Joseph, J. (2008). “Going to Brazil”: Transnational and corporeal movements of a Canadian-Brazilian martial arts community, Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 8(2), 194-213.
Joseph, J. (2008). The logical paradox of the cultural commodity: Selling “authentic” Afro-Brazilian martial arts in Canada. Sociology of Sport Journal, 25(4), 498-515.