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Crafting a DIY Campervan and Crafting Embodied, Gendered Identity Performances in a Hyper-masculine Environment (2019)
Journal Article
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

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, 1... Read More about Crafting a DIY Campervan and Crafting Embodied, Gendered Identity Performances in a Hyper-masculine Environment.

Questions of culture in autoethnography (2018)
Book
Stanley, P., & Vass, G. (Eds.). (2018). Questions of culture in autoethnography. 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.

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..

‘Passing’-and ‘failing’-in Latin America: Methodological reflections on linguacultural identity (2016)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2016). ‘Passing’-and ‘failing’-in Latin America: Methodological reflections on linguacultural identity. In E. Emerald, R. E. Rinehart, & A. Garcia (Eds.), Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses (185-196). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-494-7_15

Después de México: bronceada, el cabello teñido de negro. En un mercado nicaragüense una puestera se dirige a mí. Escuchándole mal, le pregunto en jerga mexicana: ¿mande? Y charlamos. Ella dice que mi ‘paisano’ estaba aquí antes. ‘¿Mi paisano? ¿De ve... Read More about ‘Passing’-and ‘failing’-in Latin America: Methodological reflections on linguacultural identity.