Pamela Moss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5232971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Moss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Moss |
| SIGNATURE | MOSS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 387 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in m…
Research Synthesis Infrastructures: Shaping Knowledge in Education
Research syntheses provide one means of managing the proliferation of research knowledge by integrating learnings across primary research studies. What it means to appropriately synthesize research, however, remains a matter of debate: Syntheses can assume a variety of forms, each with important implications for the shape knowledge takes and the interests it serves. To help shed light on these differences and their stakes, this chapter provides a…
Public Privates: Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces
Marcia R. England. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. xxi and 189 pp., bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4962-0580-3), $30.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-4962-0672-5), $30.00 electr
Auto-Methods in Feminist Geography
Given the ubiquitous encouragement of self-expression in academia, informally through tweeting and blogging, and formally through the highly stylized curriculum vitae, we find it curious that scholars using autobiographical writing and autoethnography in their research still need to provide basic rationales for choosing to use one’s own experience as data. Criticism routinely considers that telling one’s life story to be narcissistic navel-gazing…
Pursuing a feminist ethos of care and the practice of mentoring
Throughout 2018, we celebrated the 25 years of publishing Gender, Place and Culture. There was indeed a lot to celebrate. From a mere handful of feminists in the discipline of geography sprinkled a
Happy anniversary gender, place and culture
It is with pleasure that we open this issue of Gender, Place and Culture with a short commentary as it enters its 25th year of publication! For a quarter of a century, feminist geographers have bee
Emergent and divergent spaces in the Women’s March: The challenges of intersectionality and inclusion
This piece introduces the set of articles assembled from our call for Rapid Responses to the Women’s March on Washington circulated in February 2017. Each addresses issues arising through collective expressions of protest. The Women’s March on Washington, organized on the twin principles of intersectionality and inclusion, acted as a flashpoint for the generation of emergent spaces to do politics differently. In the search for solidarity, tension…
Traveling heavy. A memoir in between journeys
Traveling Heavy is an engaging read whether you’re approaching it as a memoir of the influential storyteller and anthropologist Ruth Behar; a set of vignettes about belonging while living through h
Practicing Collective Biography
Collective biography uses researchers' written memories about a set of experiences as texts for collective analysis. As a feminist approach to research, collective biography draws centrally on the idea that significant memories are critical in the constitution of the self, and maintains that in analyzing memories collectively, researchers can begin to tap into wider social processes and structures. Though rarely used in geography, collective biog…
Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
Some rhizomatic recollections of a feminist geographer: Working toward an affirmative politics
In celebration of the 21st anniversary of Gender, Place and Culture, I have taken the opportunity to argue for an affirmative politics for feminist geography. I offer a set of rhizomatic recollections of individualized moments of limit experiences that I have encountered in my own academic practice as a feminist geographer. Although perhaps not as transformative as one might expect, the limit experiences I write about are at the very least an att…
A collective biography of joy in academic practice
Changing working conditions at many universities over the past decade have meant longer hours, intensified record-keeping, and more precarious employment. Despite these changes, many academics still insist that we enjoy our jobs. Our inquiry is oriented toward spaces and practices that bring us joy in our daily work and help us withstand the negative effects of working in academia. This article reports on our exploration of some moments of joy at…
Exploring the Macro-Micro Dynamic in Data Use Practice
Still searching for the Promised Land: Placing women in Bruce Springsteen's lyrical landscapes
By telling stories about the unevenness of the ideal of the Promised Land, Bruce Springsteen drenches landscapes with individualized renderings that speak to a collective sense of being American and living in America.Yet what is lost in this detail is the awareness that males dominate the American imaginary, that Americans are men, and that their America is masculine. A close, critical reading of Springsteen's lyrics via Deleuze and Guattari's id…
Positioning a Feminist Supervisor in Graduate Supervision
As part of feminist praxis in the academy, students increasingly want to engage in activist research as part of their training. Yet such research, especially that engaging participatory methods, takes time—building collaborative relationships, designing collective research projects, undertaking research and writing up results. As a feminist graduate research supervisor, the author is in a quandary: How to negotiate the relationships among her own…
Learning From Our Differences: A Dialogue Across Perspectives on Quality in Education Research
The dialogue re-presented in this article is intended to foster mutual engagement—and opportunity for learning—across different perspectives on research within the education research community. Participants in the dialogue each addressed the following questions: (1) What are the touchstones by which you judge quality or rigor in education research (for a single study, a set of studies, or a “field” or community of researchers in dialogue)? What i…
Reconstructing Validity
In response to Lissitz and Samuelsen (2007) , the author reconstructs the historical arguments for the more comprehensive unitary concept of validity and the principles of scientific inquiry underlying it. Her response is organized in terms of four questions: (a) How did validity in educational measurement come to be conceptualized as unitary, and why? (b) What is construct validity, and how does it provide the basis for a unitary concept of vali…
Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
This provocative and moving work explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women—coping with associated notions of illness, health, and being female—restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthriti…
Culture/Place/Health
Key Words: critical geographyculturehealthplacesocial theory
Feminist geography in practice: Research and methods
Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
Chapter 1 Prologue: Living with Chronic Illness Chapter 2 Setting Out Some Issues Chapter 3 Working through Theories of the Body Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space Chapter 5 Making Sense of Chronic Illness Chapter 6 Approaching Analysis and the Interpretive Act Chapter 7 Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription Chapter 8 Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders Chapter 9 Absence of Prese…
Focus: Equity for women in geography
The 1984 Royal Commission Report on Equality in Employment, or the Abella Report, set out the principles and practice of equity in employment (Abella 1984). In the Report, Commissioner Rosalie Abella identified four groups of persons in Canada that have been historically disadvantaged in employment policies and practices--Native people, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and women. Since that time, the federal and provincial governmen…
Educational Standards, Assessment, and the Search for Consensus
In this article, we critically examine the nature of the “consensus” reflected in educational standards used to orient high-stakes assessment programs. We analyze two complementary cases of practice in the assessment of teaching. One focuses on the discourse of standards creation and one examines how standards like these are typically used to orient assessment development and judgments about individual performance. We offer two (partially competi…
Beyond Speaking as an "As A" and Stating the "Etc: Toward Engaging a Praxis of Difference
Pamela Moss, Margo L. Matwychuk, Beyond Speaking as an "As A" and Stating the "Etc.": Toward Engaging a Praxis of Difference, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, Identity and the Academy (2000), pp. 82-104
Toward Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for ourselves and others
In this paper, we outline some strategies that we have found useful in our everyday practices as faculty members at a variety of universities in Canada and the USA. We first set a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis. We then discuss strategies that would be useful in choosing a mentor as well as being a mentor; for mentoring undergraduate students as well as graduate students. We conclude by suggesting that working toward …
Inquiry into Environment and Body: Women, Work, and Chronic Illness
The recent call for the reorientation of analysis in medical geography to more critical approaches has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Critical theories of health and health care services are emerging, which complement the well-developed focus on the spatial aspects of disease and service delivery. Yet in reconceptualising the links between place, space, and health, care must be taken in theorising in context experiences of health and …
Negotiating spaces in home environments: Older women living with arthritis
Toward Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for ourselves and others
In this paper, we outline some strategies that we have found useful in our everyday practices as faculty members at a variety of universities in Canada and the USA. We first set a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis. We then discuss strategies that would be useful in choosing a mentor as well as being a mentor; for mentoring undergraduate students as well as graduate students. We conclude by suggesting that working toward …
Can There Be Validity Without Reliability
Reliability has traditionally been taken for granted as a necessary but insufficient condition for validity in assessment use. My purpose in this article is to illuminate and challenge this presumption by exploring a dialectic between psychometric and hermeneutic approaches to drawing and warranting interpretations of human products or performances. Reliability, as it is typically defined and operationalized in the measurement literature (e.g., A…
A collective biography of joy in academic practice
Changing working conditions at many universities over the past decade have meant longer hours, intensified record-keeping, and more precarious employment. Despite these changes, many academics still insist that we enjoy our jobs. Our inquiry is oriented toward spaces and practices that bring us joy in our daily work and help us withstand the negative effects of working in academia. This article reports on our exploration of some moments of joy at…
Body, Corporeal Space, and Legitimating Chronic Illness: Women Diagnosed with M.E
The trendiness in using the body as a unit of analysis does not keep us from trying to understand how the body is part of the mundane stuff that makes up everyday life, particularly the chronically ill body. In our research with women diagnosed with chronic illness, we found that women experience their bodies, both sensorially and in their capacity for labor and leisure, through social scripts, seeming economic imperatives, and their own blood, s…
Emergent and divergent spaces in the Women’s March: The challenges of intersectionality and inclusion
This piece introduces the set of articles assembled from our call for Rapid Responses to the Women’s March on Washington circulated in February 2017. Each addresses issues arising through collective expressions of protest. The Women’s March on Washington, organized on the twin principles of intersectionality and inclusion, acted as a flashpoint for the generation of emergent spaces to do politics differently. In the search for solidarity, tension…
Learning From Our Differences: A Dialogue Across Perspectives on Quality in Education Research
The dialogue re-presented in this article is intended to foster mutual engagement—and opportunity for learning—across different perspectives on research within the education research community. Participants in the dialogue each addressed the following questions: (1) What are the touchstones by which you judge quality or rigor in education research (for a single study, a set of studies, or a “field” or community of researchers in dialogue)? What i…
Auto-Methods in Feminist Geography
Given the ubiquitous encouragement of self-expression in academia, informally through tweeting and blogging, and formally through the highly stylized curriculum vitae, we find it curious that scholars using autobiographical writing and autoethnography in their research still need to provide basic rationales for choosing to use one’s own experience as data. Criticism routinely considers that telling one’s life story to be narcissistic navel-gazing…
Enlarging the Dialogue in Educational Measurement: Voices from Interpretive Research Traditions
In this article, I argue that the theory and practice of educational measurement would benefit by expanding the dialogue among measurement professionals to include voices from research traditions different from ours and from the communities we study and serve. To that end, I explore a critical dialectic between a naturalist conception of social science, from which the tradition of educational measurement has evolved, and an interpretive conceptio…
Collaboration as Dialogue: Teachers and Researchers Engaged in Conversation and Professional Development
This article, in both form and substance, seeks to reconceptualize the role of collaboration in professional development. The nature of collaboration and collaborative relationships in professional development research is reviewed, and an alternative conceptualization is offered. Because our work spans multiple sites, we are able to highlight the particularities of our experiences across sites and to contrast the individual stories of each teache…
Some rhizomatic recollections of a feminist geographer: Working toward an affirmative politics
In celebration of the 21st anniversary of Gender, Place and Culture, I have taken the opportunity to argue for an affirmative politics for feminist geography. I offer a set of rhizomatic recollections of individualized moments of limit experiences that I have encountered in my own academic practice as a feminist geographer. Although perhaps not as transformative as one might expect, the limit experiences I write about are at the very least an att…
Democracy, Identity, Space
Spaces of Resistance, Spaces of Respite: Franchise housekeepers keeping house in the workplace and at home
As a contribution to a growing geography of domestic labour, I offer this micro-scale study as a glimpse into the lives of franchise housekeepers. This study sheds light on the ways women cope with their labour both in the workplace and at home. Scrutiny of the women's ordinary actions and reactions to their labour demonstrate how they devise coping strategies through mundane, common, everyday acts and forge spaces of resistance and respite. I di…
Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in m…
Reflections on the ‘Gap’ as Part of the Politics of Research Design
Positioning a Feminist Supervisor in Graduate Supervision
As part of feminist praxis in the academy, students increasingly want to engage in activist research as part of their training. Yet such research, especially that engaging participatory methods, takes time—building collaborative relationships, designing collective research projects, undertaking research and writing up results. As a feminist graduate research supervisor, the author is in a quandary: How to negotiate the relationships among her own…
Educational Standards, Assessment, and the Search for Consensus
In this article, we critically examine the nature of the “consensus” reflected in educational standards used to orient high-stakes assessment programs. We analyze two complementary cases of practice in the assessment of teaching. One focuses on the discourse of standards creation and one examines how standards like these are typically used to orient assessment development and judgments about individual performance. We offer two (partially competi…
Still searching for the Promised Land: Placing women in Bruce Springsteen's lyrical landscapes
By telling stories about the unevenness of the ideal of the Promised Land, Bruce Springsteen drenches landscapes with individualized renderings that speak to a collective sense of being American and living in America.Yet what is lost in this detail is the awareness that males dominate the American imaginary, that Americans are men, and that their America is masculine. A close, critical reading of Springsteen's lyrics via Deleuze and Guattari's id…
Reconstructing Validity
In response to Lissitz and Samuelsen (2007) , the author reconstructs the historical arguments for the more comprehensive unitary concept of validity and the principles of scientific inquiry underlying it. Her response is organized in terms of four questions: (a) How did validity in educational measurement come to be conceptualized as unitary, and why? (b) What is construct validity, and how does it provide the basis for a unitary concept of vali…
Focus: Equity for women in geography
The 1984 Royal Commission Report on Equality in Employment, or the Abella Report, set out the principles and practice of equity in employment (Abella 1984). In the Report, Commissioner Rosalie Abella identified four groups of persons in Canada that have been historically disadvantaged in employment policies and practices--Native people, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and women. Since that time, the federal and provincial governmen…
Continuing the Dialogue on Collaboration
In this article, we seek to establish a dialogue with the authors of "The Challenge of Studying Collaboration" (John-Steiner, Weber, & Minnis, 1998), a piece written in response to our previous AERJ article (Clark et al., 1996). Although we agree with some parts of their critique, we resist some of their suggestions because of our differing sets of assumptions about the appropriate goals and criteria for scholarly inquiry. The dialectic between o…
Recovering a Dialectical View of Rationality
Traveling heavy. A memoir in between journeys
Traveling Heavy is an engaging read whether you’re approaching it as a memoir of the influential storyteller and anthropologist Ruth Behar; a set of vignettes about belonging while living through h
Exploring the Macro-Micro Dynamic in Data Use Practice
Shifting Conceptions of Validity in Educational Measurement: Implications for Performance Assessment
Recent developments in the philosophy of validity, highlighting the importance of investigating the consequences of assessment use, provide theoretical support for the move toward performance assessment. The problem for validity researchers is finding the appropriate set of criteria and standards to simultaneously support the validity of an assessment-based interpretation and the validity of its impact on the educational system. My intent is to p…
Where is the ‘Promised Land’: Class and Gender in Bruce Springsteen's Rock Lyrics
New' cultural geography is now over a decade old. Analysts have forged innovative ways to interpret landscapes. Critical geographers interested in power relations have demonstrated that culture is a process which is continually politically contested. Feminist materialist approaches are not as popular as others in the 'new' cultural geography, but can still contribute much to an investigation of the production of culture. By reading popular cultur…
Where Is the 'Promised Land: Class and Gender in Bruce Springsteen's Rock Lyrics
Spatially Differentiated Conceptions of Gender in the Workplace
Society and space, their relations and their structures, constitute the social geography research agenda. Although the intricacies of social and spatial relations have been foci of geographic research during the past decade, the articulation of space and ideology is less often addressed in geographic studies of the social urban environment. While ideology as lived experience in the politics of production, reproduction, and the State has been part…
Can There Be Validity Without Reliability
Reliability has traditionally been taken for granted as a necessary but insufficient condition for validity in assessment use. My purpose in this article is to illuminate and challenge this presumption by exploring a dialectic between psychometric and hermeneutic approaches to drawing and warranting interpretations of human products or performances. Reliability, as it is typically defined and operationalized in the measurement literature (e.g., A…
Concluding Remarks
Symposium on Feminist Participatory Research
Reflections on the ‘Gap’ as Part of the Politics of Research Design
Democracy, Identity, Space
Enlarging the Dialogue in Educational Measurement: Voices from Interpretive Research Traditions
In this article, I argue that the theory and practice of educational measurement would benefit by expanding the dialogue among measurement professionals to include voices from research traditions different from ours and from the communities we study and serve. To that end, I explore a critical dialectic between a naturalist conception of social science, from which the tradition of educational measurement has evolved, and an interpretive conceptio…
Collaboration as Dialogue: Teachers and Researchers Engaged in Conversation and Professional Development
This article, in both form and substance, seeks to reconceptualize the role of collaboration in professional development. The nature of collaboration and collaborative relationships in professional development research is reviewed, and an alternative conceptualization is offered. Because our work spans multiple sites, we are able to highlight the particularities of our experiences across sites and to contrast the individual stories of each teache…
Inquiry into Environment and Body: Women, Work, and Chronic Illness
The recent call for the reorientation of analysis in medical geography to more critical approaches has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Critical theories of health and health care services are emerging, which complement the well-developed focus on the spatial aspects of disease and service delivery. Yet in reconceptualising the links between place, space, and health, care must be taken in theorising in context experiences of health and …
Mapping the Subject: Geographies of cultural transformation
Spaces of Resistance, Spaces of Respite: Franchise housekeepers keeping house in the workplace and at home
As a contribution to a growing geography of domestic labour, I offer this micro-scale study as a glimpse into the lives of franchise housekeepers. This study sheds light on the ways women cope with their labour both in the workplace and at home. Scrutiny of the women's ordinary actions and reactions to their labour demonstrate how they devise coping strategies through mundane, common, everyday acts and forge spaces of resistance and respite. I di…
Negotiating spaces in home environments: Older women living with arthritis
Continuing the Dialogue on Collaboration
In this article, we seek to establish a dialogue with the authors of "The Challenge of Studying Collaboration" (John-Steiner, Weber, & Minnis, 1998), a piece written in response to our previous AERJ article (Clark et al., 1996). Although we agree with some parts of their critique, we resist some of their suggestions because of our differing sets of assumptions about the appropriate goals and criteria for scholarly inquiry. The dialectic between o…
Recovering a Dialectical View of Rationality
Toward Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for ourselves and others
In this paper, we outline some strategies that we have found useful in our everyday practices as faculty members at a variety of universities in Canada and the USA. We first set a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis. We then discuss strategies that would be useful in choosing a mentor as well as being a mentor; for mentoring undergraduate students as well as graduate students. We conclude by suggesting that working toward …
Body, Corporeal Space, and Legitimating Chronic Illness: Women Diagnosed with M.E
The trendiness in using the body as a unit of analysis does not keep us from trying to understand how the body is part of the mundane stuff that makes up everyday life, particularly the chronically ill body. In our research with women diagnosed with chronic illness, we found that women experience their bodies, both sensorially and in their capacity for labor and leisure, through social scripts, seeming economic imperatives, and their own blood, s…
Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation
Beyond Speaking as an "As A" and Stating the "Etc: Toward Engaging a Praxis of Difference
Pamela Moss, Margo L. Matwychuk, Beyond Speaking as an "As A" and Stating the "Etc.": Toward Engaging a Praxis of Difference, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, Identity and the Academy (2000), pp. 82-104
Educational Standards, Assessment, and the Search for Consensus
In this article, we critically examine the nature of the “consensus” reflected in educational standards used to orient high-stakes assessment programs. We analyze two complementary cases of practice in the assessment of teaching. One focuses on the discourse of standards creation and one examines how standards like these are typically used to orient assessment development and judgments about individual performance. We offer two (partially competi…
Feminist geography in practice: Research and methods
Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
Chapter 1 Prologue: Living with Chronic Illness Chapter 2 Setting Out Some Issues Chapter 3 Working through Theories of the Body Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Chronic Illness with Space Chapter 5 Making Sense of Chronic Illness Chapter 6 Approaching Analysis and the Interpretive Act Chapter 7 Destabilization of the Material Body: Onset, Diagnosis, Inscription Chapter 8 Limits to the Body: Inscription, Income Issues, Borders Chapter 9 Absence of Prese…
Focus: Equity for women in geography
The 1984 Royal Commission Report on Equality in Employment, or the Abella Report, set out the principles and practice of equity in employment (Abella 1984). In the Report, Commissioner Rosalie Abella identified four groups of persons in Canada that have been historically disadvantaged in employment policies and practices--Native people, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and women. Since that time, the federal and provincial governmen…
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