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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 turns to Kathy Ferguson's essay, "Interpretation and Genealogy in Feminism," as a model for tracing interpretation and genealogy in research reflexivity. Differentiating reflexivity as interpretation and reflexivity as genealogical identifies unmarked intentionalities in research as well as the irreducible necessity of both approaches in research reflexivity. The essay concludes with a discussion of how attending to the investments of reflexivity begins to address issues of epistemic privilege that continue to limit research.

AbstractThe key insights and shifts in first‐, second‐, and third‐wave feminism are examined, along with the impact on methodological thinking of what may be broadly termed "race‐based" feminisms, lesbian theory, postcolonial feminist theory, and post‐structuralism. This overview provides a present‐day portrait of where feminist theory is now and the continued importance of paying attention to gender, particularly in education.

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 linked to stranger danger and stranger fetishization in the United States, the depths of which played out in Trayvon Martin's death. She suggests that José Estaban Muñoz's theory of "disidentification" offers a critique of hetero-patriarchy lacking in current research on Black youth racial identity and that such a critique is necessary not only to build new forms of resilience for Black youth but also to develop structural critiques of racialized systems, discourses, knowledge, and practices.