Nathan Viktor Fawaz
About me
I sincerely never know how to write these.
Summary of my work
How can we live together with a little less murder?
In thinking about that question – in holding it at the centre of all my work, I find myself curious about the ways power, threat, response, and responsibility circulate in our bodies, minds, stories, and ways of being together. I often wonder about how the things we can learn from our bodies, minds, and stories, can also support ways of being together that are respectful and reciprocal. Right now, I'm working on developing tools and models that can support folks to train in times and spaces of relative peace in order to respond with clarity and kindness in times and spaces of overt conflict and dispute.
Email Nathan: nvfawaz@ualberta.ca
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Fawaz, N.V., McGuire-Adams, T., & Laurendeau, J. (2025). “…Where, in fact, will we go?” Heartful methods, physical culture, and anti-colonial autoethnography. Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, 12. https://doi.org/10.26522/jess.v12i.5347
- Sostar, T., Fawaz, N.V., Trimble, E., Markarian, T.O., & Noble, B. (2024). Revisiting insider practices: Ethical considerations and hopes for doing community work and narrative research. The Qualitative Report, 29(12). https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7807
- Peers, D., Joseph, J., Chen, C., McGuire-Adams, T., Fawaz, N.V., et al. (2023). An intersectional Foucauldian analysis of Canadian NSO EDI policies. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2183975
- Peers, D., Joseph, J., McGuire-Adams, T., Eales, L., Fawaz, N.V., et al. (2023). We become gardens: Intersectional methodologies for mutual flourishing. Leisure/Loisir, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2022.2141836
- Fawaz, N.V., & Peers, D. (2022). Dismantling historical hardscapes: Unsettling inclusion as solidarity. Sport History Review 53(2). https://doi.org/10.1123/shr.2022-0023
Book Chapters
- Fawaz, N.V., & Peers, D. (2026). When our survival is not given. In Jones, L., Avner, Z., & Jeffrey, A. (Eds.), Ethical Practices for Skilled Movement Behaviour. Routledge, 30-51.
- Fawaz, N.V. (2026). This garden is my home. In Thawer, R., & Khan, M. (Eds.), Queer and Muslim: On faith, family, and healing. University of Regina Press, 117-123.
- Fawaz, N.V. (2022). Myths of inheritance: Cardamom. In Burke, R. (Ed.), In Between Spaces: An Anthology of Disabled Writers. Stillhouse Press.
- McGuire-Adams, T., Laurendeau, J., Fawaz, N.V., Uy, D., & Bošnjak, E. (in press). Conclusions and future directions. In Clark, M., & Bridel, W. (Eds.), Social Issues in Canadian Sport. Human Kinetics.
- Eales, L., Fawaz, N.V., & Peers, D. (in press). Criply, madly, deeply: Salty cultures of the left behind. In LeFrancois, B., Reaume, G., & Abdillahi, I. (Eds.), Mad Matters (2nd ed.). Canadian Scholars Press.
