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Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America (2024)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2024). Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America. In F. Dervin (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513940-37

This chapter discusses critical interculturality as the socio-historical context against which individuals’ intercultural communications and developing intercultural competence may be understood. The individuals are short-term sojourners, primarily y... Read More about Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America.

Solo trails/trials for this unlikely hiker: Purpose, purity, and quest (2024)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2024). Solo trails/trials for this unlikely hiker: Purpose, purity, and quest. In A. Grant, & E. Lloyd-Parkes (Eds.), Meaningful Journeys: Autoethnographies of Quest and Identity Transformation. Routledge

Alex Roddie (2021, p.25) sets himself a challenge: to hike Scotland’s Cape Wrath Trail alone, in winter, and without communications technology. And then, almost immediately, his tent floods and he calls home for backup. He writes:

"As I packed up... Read More about Solo trails/trials for this unlikely hiker: Purpose, purity, and quest.

The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies (2024)
Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024). The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]

Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or town square, but what if you... Read More about The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies.

Theorizing gender in homestay settings: Mobilities and/as power relations (2023)
Journal Article
Moysidou, G., & Stanley, P. (2023). Theorizing gender in homestay settings: Mobilities and/as power relations. Hospitality and Society, 13(3), 241-263. https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00070_1

A contribution to critical work in hospitality, this article theorizes gendered power relations in various homestay settings. As such, it is an endorsement of – and response to – Shelagh Mooney’s call for critical problematization of ‘gender’, not le... Read More about Theorizing gender in homestay settings: Mobilities and/as power relations.

Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia (2023)
Journal Article
Stanley, P., & Wight, A. C. (2024). Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia. Journal of Travel Research, 63(6), 1511-1526. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231194272

This study considers cultural adaptation through tourism, focusing on language-travelers: hybrid education-tourism consumers whose voices remain relatively silent in tourism studies. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with studen... Read More about Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia.

Us and Them: Affective materialities and the binarizing effects of “study abroad” (2023)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (in press). Us and Them: Affective materialities and the binarizing effects of “study abroad”. In D. Grammon, S. Loza, D. Magaña, & A. Schwartz (Eds.), Aquí se habla: Centering the local and personal in Spanish language education. De Gruyter

In a previous research project (Stanley & Stevenson, 2017), I video-recorded a US-American teacher introducing the topic of study abroad in class. On the recording, she says:
This is Tom, and Tom is currently living in the UK. But he hears about a... Read More about Us and Them: Affective materialities and the binarizing effects of “study abroad”.

Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram (2022)
Journal Article
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (in press). Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram. Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2022.2153994

Discursive, netnographic and visual methods have been applied in the past to critique self-images, providing insight into the behaviours of tourists. However, such studies have ignored reactions to self-image posts on social media, and particularly t... Read More about Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram.

An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors (2022)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2023). An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 52(3), 404-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416221120819

While much has been written to guide early career researchers (ECRs) and those charged with socializing them into academic ontologies, much less is known about ECRs’ own experiences of becoming academic. This article presents a narrative, new-materia... Read More about An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors.

Scottish Highlands campervan mobilities in pandemic times: Enclosures (2022)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2022). Scottish Highlands campervan mobilities in pandemic times: Enclosures. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(3), 398-401. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.3.398

This paper explores the idea of ‘enclosures’ as encircling lines. These include semantic boundaries, insider-outside binaries, and the grey area that includes the technically-illegal and the rarely-actually-prosecuted, focusing on ‘wild’ campervannin... Read More about Scottish Highlands campervan mobilities in pandemic times: Enclosures.

The fires we made, the fires that made us: Introducing the Forum (2022)
Journal Article
Stanley, P., Clarke, D. W., Murray, F., & Wyatt, J. (2022). The fires we made, the fires that made us: Introducing the Forum. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(3), 381-387. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.3.381

The authors of this article ventured into the Scottish outdoors together for the weekend in September 2020. They made fires to gather round in the early autumn darkness. In this article they return to these fires as they introduce the articles in thi... Read More about The fires we made, the fires that made us: Introducing the Forum.

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.

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism (2021)
Book
Stanley, P. (2021). An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism. London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205357

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 – fatness, heteronormativity, partnering – and about fitting in, or not, withi... Read More about An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism.

Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism (2020)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2021). Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism. International Review of Qualitative Research, 14(3), 412-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940844720948066

This paper critically examines epistemological, ontological and axiological tensions of activism in three related contexts. These are, first, (primarily medical) volunteer tourism ideologies and practices in Central America –including US-American tee... Read More about Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism.

Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning: Emerging Voices (2020)
Book
Stanley, P. (Ed.). (2020). Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning: Emerging Voices. Abingdon: Routledge

Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning shows how critical autoethnographic writing in a field such as intercultural education can help inform and change existing research paradigms. Engaging story-telling and insightful analysis from eme... Read More about Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning: Emerging Voices.

Walking Home: An Autoethnography Of Hiking, Identity, And (De)Colonization (2020)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2020). Walking Home: An Autoethnography Of Hiking, Identity, And (De)Colonization. In A. F. Herrmann (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429056987

As a white, Scottish woman living on violently acquired, never-ceded Gadigal land on the east coast of what we now call Australia, I came to see that I was part of a big, unresolved problem. I understood this through engagement with Indigenous people... Read More about Walking Home: An Autoethnography Of Hiking, Identity, And (De)Colonization.

Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour (2019)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2020). Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour. Mobilities, 15(2), 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1696038

This paper investigates a nascent, primarily online community of so-called 'unlikely hikers', united in the premise that hiking is good for everyone's mental and physical health and that diversity can and should extend to outdoor spaces including nat... Read More about Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour.

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

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.

Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic (2019)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2019). Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic. In X. Gao (Ed.), Second Handbook of English Language Teaching. Switzerland: Springer

With a view to suggesting ways forward in qualitative ELT research, this chapter surveys two related fields of literature in order to question the taken-for-granted. The first field reviewed is ethnography and here the focus on its intellectual histo... Read More about Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic.