ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what has been delineated as “the underlying central tenet” of cultural sport psychology, namely cultural praxis. Cultural praxis aspires, among other things, to overcome the “single and singular” scientific discipline approach that has characterized sport psychology for some time and to move sport psychology from the disembodied viewpoint of the athlete to an embodied one, as well as to one that is concurrently interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. In the sport psychology literature, cultural praxis is nowadays widely acknowledged as the “how to” of conducting culturally sensitive, localized, and reflective research and practice. Through cultural praxis, scholars and practitioners are encouraged to consider all those elements that constitute culture, not as categorical grouping variables, but as shifting and intersecting discourses that shape one’s values, beliefs, and behaviours. It requires blending theory, research, and practice in ways that heighten and enlighten understanding and support provided to athletes.
