Dr Phiona Stanley P.Stanley@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Crafting a DIY Campervan and Crafting Embodied, Gendered Identity Performances in a Hyper-masculine Environment
Stanley, Phiona
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Abstract
This paper presents a multi-media textual collage that shows rather than tells the lived experiences of my conversion of a DIY campervan over several months in a diesel mechanic workshop in Sydney, Australia. This is a " small culture, " (Holliday, 1999) to which I gained limited access as I developed craft skills and the confidence to speak back to relative, milieu-specific, gendered power. I use autoethnographic textual fragments written shortly after the moment to depict the struggle to acquire skills, build confidence, and cross " small " cultures in an unusual crafting context. Grounded theoretical insights are suggested as they relate to three things. First, I examine the nature of individual, self-directed learning as engendered by the non-expert, hands-on doing of craft supported by YouTube instructional videos. Second, I consider positive and negative affective identity factors, particularly feelings of competence or incompetence and challenges to my own (female, middle-aged, injured, and non-expert) embodiment. Third, I consider the collaborative, discursive ways in which hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculinities were talked into being as contingent, relational identities against the foil of a constructed " other. "
Citation
Stanley, P. (2019). Crafting a DIY Campervan and Crafting Embodied, Gendered Identity Performances in a Hyper-masculine Environment. Art/Research International, 4(1), 351-380. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29382
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 8, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 27, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2019-02 |
Deposit Date | Feb 22, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 22, 2019 |
Journal | Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal |
Print ISSN | 2371-3771 |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 351-380 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29382 |
Keywords | DIY, campervan, gender, masculinity, performativity. |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1608590 |
Contract Date | Feb 22, 2019 |
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