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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. 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.

(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.

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

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

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.

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?.

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.

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. 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.

“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 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

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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

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..