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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.

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..

Rethinking the consumption of places (2012)
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Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2012). Rethinking the consumption of places. Annals of Tourism Research, 39, 1612-1633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2011.12.003

The phenomenological concept of embodiment has underpinned the ‘performance turn’ in tourism studies which, along with the ‘mobilities paradigm’, has contributed to the disruption of the occularcentric and static nature of Urry’s original (1990, 1995... Read More about Rethinking the consumption of places.

Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking (2010)
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Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2010). Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking. International Journal of Tourism Research, 12, 379-389. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.761

While visual methods have long been utilised as legitimate research techniques in the social sciences, within mainstream tourism research these techniques are rarely employed. This paper thus seeks to question current research practices in tourism by... Read More about Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking.

Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field. (2009)
Journal Article
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2009). Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field. Current Issues in Tourism, 12, 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500802401972

This paper seeks to ‘promote’ the use of moving image visual ethnography within tourism research while concurrently acknowledging the methodological and practical challenges inherent in the use of this method. The paper introduces Dziga Vertov's 1929... Read More about Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field..

Scoping and mapping intangible cultural heritage in Scotland: final report (2008)
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McCleery, A., McCleery, A., Gunn, L., & Hill, D. (2008). Scoping and mapping intangible cultural heritage in Scotland: final report. Museums Galleries Scotland, 1-55

The intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of Scotland requires to be accorded a status which is equal to that of the material culture of Scotland. If this is not currently the case, this in part reflects difficulties inherent in identifying the existenc... Read More about Scoping and mapping intangible cultural heritage in Scotland: final report.

Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and its punishment (2008)
Journal Article
Whitecross, R. W. (2008). Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and its punishment. Revue d'études tibétaines, 13, 45-74

A historical, legal study of the concept of theft in Bhutanese religious and legal thought.