Wanda S Pillow
Biographic Data
| ID | 362200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wanda S Pillow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wanda S |
| FAMILY NAME | Pillow |
| SIGNATURE | PILLOW W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2262-3420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 721 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Epistemic ignorance and ontological whiteouts in post-qualitative research
Erotic Power Futures/Relations That Matter
New materialist and posthumanist studies lack accounting of colonial impact on how we think about who is and is not human. In this essay, I posit questions of what is real, who is human, and who we are in relation to each other. These questions, which are key to inquiry and posthuman relationalities, must be thought with Tiffany Lethabo King's “decolonial refusal,” a relational stance offering radical possibilities. In example, I turn to Audre Lo…
Epistemic witnessing
Pillow explores complexities of witnessing in research linking theoretical oppression to inadequate, arrogant witnessing. Weaving narrative and reflection, Pillow considers what is engrained in theoretical oppression and reviews trauma studies engagement with witnessing as a case example. Thinking with feminist, queer and decolonial scholars, Pillow argues for epistemic witnessing based on ethical onto-epistemological responsibility driven by dec…
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), p. 111
Introducing the New Editors of Frontiers
Reflexivity as Interpretation and Genealogy in Research
Building from conversations in a 2011 special issue in this journal, 'Contestation and Opportunity in Reflexivity,' in which the omnipresent status yet contested terrain of reflexivity in research is highlighted, this essay takes up ontological and theoretical investments surrounding reflexivity as a way to map and make sense of what reflexivity does to research. After an overview of how reflection and reflexivity are currently put to use, Pillow…
Mothering a Black Son Who Dreams of Another Country
This narrative traces the experiences of mothering a Black child coming to consciousness about the role and place of Blackness in the United States. Working from a pedagogy of pain and love, Pillow seeks out an endarkened, embodied praxis of mothering that allows Black youth places of 'disidentifications' to imagine other spaces and futurities. Utilizing Sara Ahmed's discussion of 'strange encounters,' Pillow reviews how Blackness is intimately l…
Policy temporality and marked bodies
This article introduces the challenges of temporality into policy studies utilizing US education policy and young mothers as a working example. Situating the need for attention to temporality amidst the ruins of inquiry and ruins of education outcomes for young mothers, the author builds on recent ‘spatial policy sociology’ and turns to queer theory/queer time as a way to infuse policy studies with embodied inquiry toward reimagined futurities. T…
Sacajawea
This article considers the relations between discourse, knowledge, power and representations, and particularly how constructs and ideologies of gender, race and sexuality impact what we think we know, how we come to know it, and where this knowledge goes in theory, policy and practice. The story of Sacajawea, a Lemhi-Shoshone woman who was involved in the 1804–06 US Corp of Discovery expedition, is used as an examplar of how hegemonic representat…
Searching for Sacajawea
Pillow's aim is to demonstrate how representations of Sacajawea have shifted in writings about the Lewis and Clark expedition in ways that support manifest destiny and white colonial projects. This essay begins with a general account of Sacajawea. The next section uses two novels (one hundred years apart) to make the case that shifts in the representation of this important historical figure serve similar purposes. There is some attention to white…
Searching for Sacajawea
Unfit Subjects
Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of federal law and polciy towards pregnant teens, representations of teen pregnancy in popular culture and educational policy assesses how schools provide educational opportunities for school aged mothers. Through in- depth analysis of specific policies and programmes, both past and present, thsi book traces America's successes and failures in educating pregnant teens. Unfit Subjects uses feminist, race a…
Bodies are dangerous
This paper explores the implications of paying attention to the body, literally and figuratively, in policy analysis and policy theory. Building from recent critical, feminist and post-structural work in policy studies, it develops what is termed a feminist genealogy to aid in an analysis that not only identifies the policy problem and policy subject, but at the same time troubles the doing of policy analysis by putting the arena of policy studie…
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations. This paper closely examines the role of reflexivity as a methodological tool as it intersects with debates and questions surrounding representation and legitimization in qualitative research, within modernist and postmodernist ide…
When a man does feminism should he dress in drag
(2002). When a man does feminism should he dress in drag? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 545-554
Deciphering Attempts to Decipher Postmodern Educational Research
Of course when women practice pissed criticism, they're accused of being incontinent1 —Lee Quinby (1994, p. 131) E ducational Researcher has recently published several articles focusing on postmodernism and research that have sought to clarify and contain postmodernism (Constas 1998a, 1998b; Howe, 1998). The tone of these articles invokes a form of "epidemic logic" (Singer, 1993) promoting the idea that postmodernism has infiltrated the acad-emy …
Exposed methodology
This article explores what it means to work from the body methodologically as a site of deconstructive practice. The body is not an uncontested site- it is a troublesome site particularly for women. The author asks how can the body be used- both with and against itself- as a site of explicit exposure, in this case, to expose conflictual and obscured stories about young women who are mothers and the programs that serve them. Two exposures are pres…
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations. This paper closely examines the role of reflexivity as a methodological tool as it intersects with debates and questions surrounding representation and legitimization in qualitative research, within modernist and postmodernist ide…
Exposed methodology
This article explores what it means to work from the body methodologically as a site of deconstructive practice. The body is not an uncontested site- it is a troublesome site particularly for women. The author asks how can the body be used- both with and against itself- as a site of explicit exposure, in this case, to expose conflictual and obscured stories about young women who are mothers and the programs that serve them. Two exposures are pres…
Reflexivity as Interpretation and Genealogy in Research
Building from conversations in a 2011 special issue in this journal, 'Contestation and Opportunity in Reflexivity,' in which the omnipresent status yet contested terrain of reflexivity in research is highlighted, this essay takes up ontological and theoretical investments surrounding reflexivity as a way to map and make sense of what reflexivity does to research. After an overview of how reflection and reflexivity are currently put to use, Pillow…
Deciphering Attempts to Decipher Postmodern Educational Research
Of course when women practice pissed criticism, they're accused of being incontinent1 —Lee Quinby (1994, p. 131) E ducational Researcher has recently published several articles focusing on postmodernism and research that have sought to clarify and contain postmodernism (Constas 1998a, 1998b; Howe, 1998). The tone of these articles invokes a form of "epidemic logic" (Singer, 1993) promoting the idea that postmodernism has infiltrated the acad-emy …
Epistemic witnessing
Pillow explores complexities of witnessing in research linking theoretical oppression to inadequate, arrogant witnessing. Weaving narrative and reflection, Pillow considers what is engrained in theoretical oppression and reviews trauma studies engagement with witnessing as a case example. Thinking with feminist, queer and decolonial scholars, Pillow argues for epistemic witnessing based on ethical onto-epistemological responsibility driven by dec…
Bodies are dangerous
This paper explores the implications of paying attention to the body, literally and figuratively, in policy analysis and policy theory. Building from recent critical, feminist and post-structural work in policy studies, it develops what is termed a feminist genealogy to aid in an analysis that not only identifies the policy problem and policy subject, but at the same time troubles the doing of policy analysis by putting the arena of policy studie…
Searching for Sacajawea
Pillow's aim is to demonstrate how representations of Sacajawea have shifted in writings about the Lewis and Clark expedition in ways that support manifest destiny and white colonial projects. This essay begins with a general account of Sacajawea. The next section uses two novels (one hundred years apart) to make the case that shifts in the representation of this important historical figure serve similar purposes. There is some attention to white…
Mothering a Black Son Who Dreams of Another Country
This narrative traces the experiences of mothering a Black child coming to consciousness about the role and place of Blackness in the United States. Working from a pedagogy of pain and love, Pillow seeks out an endarkened, embodied praxis of mothering that allows Black youth places of 'disidentifications' to imagine other spaces and futurities. Utilizing Sara Ahmed's discussion of 'strange encounters,' Pillow reviews how Blackness is intimately l…
Policy temporality and marked bodies
This article introduces the challenges of temporality into policy studies utilizing US education policy and young mothers as a working example. Situating the need for attention to temporality amidst the ruins of inquiry and ruins of education outcomes for young mothers, the author builds on recent ‘spatial policy sociology’ and turns to queer theory/queer time as a way to infuse policy studies with embodied inquiry toward reimagined futurities. T…
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), p. 111
Sacajawea
This article considers the relations between discourse, knowledge, power and representations, and particularly how constructs and ideologies of gender, race and sexuality impact what we think we know, how we come to know it, and where this knowledge goes in theory, policy and practice. The story of Sacajawea, a Lemhi-Shoshone woman who was involved in the 1804–06 US Corp of Discovery expedition, is used as an examplar of how hegemonic representat…
When a man does feminism should he dress in drag
(2002). When a man does feminism should he dress in drag? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 545-554
Exposed methodology
This article explores what it means to work from the body methodologically as a site of deconstructive practice. The body is not an uncontested site- it is a troublesome site particularly for women. The author asks how can the body be used- both with and against itself- as a site of explicit exposure, in this case, to expose conflictual and obscured stories about young women who are mothers and the programs that serve them. Two exposures are pres…
Deciphering Attempts to Decipher Postmodern Educational Research
Of course when women practice pissed criticism, they're accused of being incontinent1 —Lee Quinby (1994, p. 131) E ducational Researcher has recently published several articles focusing on postmodernism and research that have sought to clarify and contain postmodernism (Constas 1998a, 1998b; Howe, 1998). The tone of these articles invokes a form of "epidemic logic" (Singer, 1993) promoting the idea that postmodernism has infiltrated the acad-emy …
When a man does feminism should he dress in drag
(2002). When a man does feminism should he dress in drag? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 545-554
Bodies are dangerous
This paper explores the implications of paying attention to the body, literally and figuratively, in policy analysis and policy theory. Building from recent critical, feminist and post-structural work in policy studies, it develops what is termed a feminist genealogy to aid in an analysis that not only identifies the policy problem and policy subject, but at the same time troubles the doing of policy analysis by putting the arena of policy studie…
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations. This paper closely examines the role of reflexivity as a methodological tool as it intersects with debates and questions surrounding representation and legitimization in qualitative research, within modernist and postmodernist ide…
Unfit Subjects
Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of federal law and polciy towards pregnant teens, representations of teen pregnancy in popular culture and educational policy assesses how schools provide educational opportunities for school aged mothers. Through in- depth analysis of specific policies and programmes, both past and present, thsi book traces America's successes and failures in educating pregnant teens. Unfit Subjects uses feminist, race a…
Searching for Sacajawea
Pillow's aim is to demonstrate how representations of Sacajawea have shifted in writings about the Lewis and Clark expedition in ways that support manifest destiny and white colonial projects. This essay begins with a general account of Sacajawea. The next section uses two novels (one hundred years apart) to make the case that shifts in the representation of this important historical figure serve similar purposes. There is some attention to white…
Searching for Sacajawea
Sacajawea
This article considers the relations between discourse, knowledge, power and representations, and particularly how constructs and ideologies of gender, race and sexuality impact what we think we know, how we come to know it, and where this knowledge goes in theory, policy and practice. The story of Sacajawea, a Lemhi-Shoshone woman who was involved in the 1804–06 US Corp of Discovery expedition, is used as an examplar of how hegemonic representat…
Policy temporality and marked bodies
This article introduces the challenges of temporality into policy studies utilizing US education policy and young mothers as a working example. Situating the need for attention to temporality amidst the ruins of inquiry and ruins of education outcomes for young mothers, the author builds on recent ‘spatial policy sociology’ and turns to queer theory/queer time as a way to infuse policy studies with embodied inquiry toward reimagined futurities. T…
Reflexivity as Interpretation and Genealogy in Research
Building from conversations in a 2011 special issue in this journal, 'Contestation and Opportunity in Reflexivity,' in which the omnipresent status yet contested terrain of reflexivity in research is highlighted, this essay takes up ontological and theoretical investments surrounding reflexivity as a way to map and make sense of what reflexivity does to research. After an overview of how reflection and reflexivity are currently put to use, Pillow…
Mothering a Black Son Who Dreams of Another Country
This narrative traces the experiences of mothering a Black child coming to consciousness about the role and place of Blackness in the United States. Working from a pedagogy of pain and love, Pillow seeks out an endarkened, embodied praxis of mothering that allows Black youth places of 'disidentifications' to imagine other spaces and futurities. Utilizing Sara Ahmed's discussion of 'strange encounters,' Pillow reviews how Blackness is intimately l…
Introducing the New Editors of Frontiers
Epistemic witnessing
Pillow explores complexities of witnessing in research linking theoretical oppression to inadequate, arrogant witnessing. Weaving narrative and reflection, Pillow considers what is engrained in theoretical oppression and reviews trauma studies engagement with witnessing as a case example. Thinking with feminist, queer and decolonial scholars, Pillow argues for epistemic witnessing based on ethical onto-epistemological responsibility driven by dec…
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), p. 111
Erotic Power Futures/Relations That Matter
New materialist and posthumanist studies lack accounting of colonial impact on how we think about who is and is not human. In this essay, I posit questions of what is real, who is human, and who we are in relation to each other. These questions, which are key to inquiry and posthuman relationalities, must be thought with Tiffany Lethabo King's “decolonial refusal,” a relational stance offering radical possibilities. In example, I turn to Audre Lo…
Epistemic ignorance and ontological whiteouts in post-qualitative research
Sociology (15 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (6 works) · Law (5 works)