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Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2024, March). Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times. Paper presented at Gender and Sexuality Research Symposium, Edinburgh, UK

In pandemic times, there were couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there was me, uncoupled, unchilded: a bubble of one. In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my type as “rebel women who talked back,... Read More about Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times.

Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone" (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2023, January). Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone". Paper presented at European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Portsmouth, UK

This paper examines the complex production of “aloneness” as subjectivity, considering lived experience, multimedia Instagram/Facebook texts, and academic writing. The context is hiking and camping/bothying “alone” and, in particular, hiking alone as... Read More about Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone".

Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2022, January). Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism. Presented at 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), Florida/Online

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm – embodiment, heteronormativity, partnering – and about fitting in, or not, wi... Read More about Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism.

Assemblages and/as the production of subjectivities: Fat girl, hiking (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2022, January). Assemblages and/as the production of subjectivities: Fat girl, hiking. Paper presented at 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), Florida/Online

About fatness, hiking, and assemblages, and about how things come together in unlikely ways to produce subjectivities.

A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2021, September). A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times. Paper presented at 6th Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne, Australia and online

In these pandemic times there are couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there is me, uncoupled, unchilded, in a bubble of one. (Four if you count the cats.) In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my t... Read More about A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times.

(Not) costing the earth? Theorizing flight shame, train bragging, and campervan travel (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2020, February). (Not) costing the earth? Theorizing flight shame, train bragging, and campervan travel. Paper presented at European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Malta

Flygskam (flight-shame), a Swedish neologism, hints at an emerging climate-smart tourist movement: closer-to-home, flight-free travel1. But going overland is more expensive and time consuming than flying, as capitalism does not price in environmental... Read More about (Not) costing the earth? Theorizing flight shame, train bragging, and campervan travel.

Volunteer tourism as/and activism (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2019, July). Volunteer tourism as/and activism. Presented at Activism, Social Justice & Collaboration: The Sixth British Conference of Autoethnography, Bristol

Homecoming: Walking methodologies as ontology and epistemology (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2019, July). Homecoming: Walking methodologies as ontology and epistemology. Paper presented at Activism, Social Justice & Collaboration: The Sixth British Conference of Autoethnography, Bristol

Messodology in the margins: Researchers’ own constructions in/as data (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2019, February). Messodology in the margins: Researchers’ own constructions in/as data. Paper presented at 3rd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, UK

Here’s something that’s been discredited, but let’s take it one step further. In qualitative research, we know it’s hokum that an all-knowing researcher “collects” data —springing already formed— from participants. Data “collection”, we know, is all... Read More about Messodology in the margins: Researchers’ own constructions in/as data.

Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2019, February). Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism?. Paper presented at 3rd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh

Latin America has a history of “internacionalistas”: outsiders travelling to help resistance efforts against murderous right-wing regimes. In the 1950s and 1960s, Che Guevara volunteered as a medic in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, and in the 1980s, i... Read More about Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism?.

“Researching” real-life gendered normativities and performances of expertise: Natural ethnography, friendship as method, and a campervan conversion project (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2018, November). “Researching” real-life gendered normativities and performances of expertise: Natural ethnography, friendship as method, and a campervan conversion project. Paper presented at Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplin

Last year, I bought a former plumber’s van and built myself a campervan. Then I reflected on the experience —including writing about it in scholarly spaces— as a learning ‘journey’ and as a series of identity negotiations. There was the everyday sexi... Read More about “Researching” real-life gendered normativities and performances of expertise: Natural ethnography, friendship as method, and a campervan conversion project.

Panel and Book Launch: Questions of Culture in Autoethnography (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2018, July). Panel and Book Launch: Questions of Culture in Autoethnography. Presented at Critical Autoethnography Conference 2018: Critical Autoethnography as Wayfaring/Wayfinding, Auckland, New Zealand

Autoethnography across cultures (panel) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2017, May). Autoethnography across cultures (panel). Presented at 13th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, US

Chair: Phiona Stanley, UNSW Australia Becoming-researcher: Autoethnography by a thousand little selves, David Bright, Monash University Exploring upon my comings and goings between cultures and languages, Elizabeth Aguirre Armendáriz, Universidad A... Read More about Autoethnography across cultures (panel).