Outputs (8)

“Researching” real-life gendered normativities and performances of expertise: Natural ethnography, friendship as method, and a campervan conversion project (2018)
Presentation / Conference
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 Disciplines, Chile

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.

On ants, life, and spinsterhood. (2018)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2018). On ants, life, and spinsterhood. New Philosopher, 21, 110-112

No abstract available.

Materiality and critical autoethnography: Theorizing campervan tourism and/as affective materiality (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2018, July). Materiality and critical autoethnography: Theorizing campervan tourism and/as affective materiality. Paper presented at Critical Autoethnography Conference 2018: Critical Autoethnography as Wayfaring/Wayfinding, Auckland, New Zealand

Panel and Book Launch: Questions of Culture in Autoethnography (2018)
Presentation / Conference
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

Questions of culture in autoethnography (2018)
Book
Stanley, P., & Vass, G. (Eds.). (2018). Questions of culture in autoethnography. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315178738

Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the ‘ethno’ – the cultural – by studying their own experiences – the ‘auto’. It links the self to the cultural, allowing for an inductive grounding of theoretical insight into researchers' lived exp... Read More about Questions of culture in autoethnography.

On the difficulties of writing about culture in autoethnography (2018)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018). On the difficulties of writing about culture in autoethnography. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography. Abingdon & New York: Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.

Competitive camping. (2018)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2018). Competitive camping. New Philosopher, 20, 109-111

in New Philosopher, Issue 20, pp.109-111. I recently fell down the social media rabbit hole that is the Vanlife hashtag. In it, girl-next-door models pose casually with expensive coffee pots in reclaimed-wood-lined campervans in front of iconic, Nort... Read More about Competitive camping..

Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone (2018)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018). Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography (129-141). Abingdon: Routledge

No abstract available.