1st Edition

Social Justice through Sport and Exercise Psychology Intergenerational Voices and An Embodied Approach

Edited By Leslee A. Fisher Copyright 2025
392 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology: Intergenerational Voices and An Embodied Approach provides a narration of the history of social justice work in sport and exercise psychology as advanced through the voices of those leaders who have dared to imagine a more just and equitable sporting world. By situating their history through critical genealogy, within an analysis of the... Read more

1. In Memory of those who Challenged Sport and Exercise Psychology Boundaries: Dorothy Harris, Steven Heyman, and Ruth Hall

Candace Hogue, Bonnie Berger, and Sherry Schweighart

 

2. Social justice and SEP: Looking back to the future  

Diane L. Gill

 

3. Sport is for everybody! (by Leslee A. Fisher)

Carole A. Oglesby

 

4. Embodied Hearts

Brenda Bredemeier

 

5. Socially Conscious SEP Work as the Son of Holocaust Survivors

Michael Sachs

 

6. Integrating African Movement Aesthetics and Spirituality into Practice

Margaret Ottley

 

7. Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium Founders (by Leslee A. Fisher)

Vikki Krane, Heather Barber, Diane Whaley, Jennifer Waldron, and Nicole M. LaVoi

 

8. My Journey against Sexual Misconduct in Sport

Ani Chroni

 

9. Identity, Context, and the Power of Representation

Kensa K. Gunter

 

10. Fighting the Power…Carefully? Engaging with Whiteness, Power, and Privilege in University Administrative Roles 

Ted Butryn

 

11. Building and Implementing Liberation-based Counseling and Sport Psychology Services in Resistant Systems   

Angel Brutus

 

12. “Burned through”: Performing Social Justice in the Academy

Matthew P. Bejar, Saemi Lee, Terilyn C. Shigeno, and Leslie K. Larsen

 

13. Culturally sensitive interventions and systemic change

Heather J. Peters

 

14. Corporeal Generosity

Tamar Semerjian

 

15. Embodying Survivorship, Accountability, Vulnerability, and Collective Liberation - Disentangling from Gendered Harm and White Supremacy (by Leslee A. Fisher)

Tanya Prewitt-White and Ryan Sappington

 

16. Optimizing the Motivational Climate to Promote Social Justice

Joan Duda

 

17. A Wandering Nomad: “Who are you and where is your home, Shams?”  

Shameema Yousuf

 

18. Social Justice and Graduate School

Bernie Compton

 

19. Becoming Allied: A Capacious and Reflexive Account of LGBTQI+ Research, Quakerism, and Sport 

Anna Baeth

 

20. My Journey as an African American Woman in Life and in the Field of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Sharon R. Couch

 

21. Beyond LGBTQIA+ Athlete Inclusion: Moving Towards Belonging

Aidan Kraus

 

22. Sport as a Site of Exclusion and a Mechanism for Social Change

Erica Tibbetts

 

23. Coach-scholarship and Athletic Leadership

Jill Kochanek

 

24. An Embodied Sport and Exercise Psychology Social Justice Framework

Leslee A. Fisher

 

25. Sport psychology reimagined - A Cultural Praxis Approach towards Social Justice

Tatiana Ryba

 

Epilogue: A Vision for an Embodied Social Justice Approach through Sport and Exercise Psychology

Leslee A. Fisher and Allison Daniel Anders

 

Biography

Leslee A. Fisher, PhD, is a Fellow, Certified Mental Performance Consultant™, and the 2024 Dr. Kate F. Hays Distinguished Mentor Awardee, the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). She is also Professor Emerita and former Director of the Sport Psychology and Motor Behavior Graduate Program at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Fisher also served as AASP’s Secretary/Treasurer, was a member of AASP’s Leadership Team, the Interim Certification Council, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the Foundations Committee, and was Chair and a member of AASP’s Continuing Education Committee.