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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. Abingdon & New York: 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.

Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2024, March). Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times. Paper presented at Gender and Sexuality Research Symposium, Edinburgh, UK

In pandemic times, there were couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there was me, uncoupled, unchilded: a bubble of one. In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my type as “rebel women who talked back,... Read More about Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times.

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. (in press). Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia. Journal of Travel Research, 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.

Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America (2023)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (in press). 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

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.

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”.

Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone" (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2023, January). Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone". Paper presented at European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Portsmouth, UK

This paper examines the complex production of “aloneness” as subjectivity, considering lived experience, multimedia Instagram/Facebook texts, and academic writing. The context is hiking and camping/bothying “alone” and, in particular, hiking alone as... Read More about Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone".

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.

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.

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.

Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism (2022)
Presentation / Conference
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.

Assemblages and/as the production of subjectivities: Fat girl, hiking (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2022, January). Assemblages and/as the production of subjectivities: Fat girl, hiking. Paper presented at 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), Florida/Online

About fatness, hiking, and assemblages, and about how things come together in unlikely ways to produce subjectivities.

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.

A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2021, September). A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times. Paper presented at 6th Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne, Australia and online

In these pandemic times there are couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there is me, uncoupled, unchilded, in a bubble of one. (Four if you count the cats.) In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my t... Read More about A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times.

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.

(Not) costing the earth? Theorizing flight shame, train bragging, and campervan travel (2020)
Presentation / Conference
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
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.

Volunteer tourism in Latin America: Activism, epistemic violence, and/or cultural relativism? (2019)
Presentation / Conference
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
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. 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.

“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.

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.

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..

Autoethnography across cultures (panel) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2017, May). Autoethnography across cultures (panel). Presented at 13th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, US

Chair: Phiona Stanley, UNSW Australia Becoming-researcher: Autoethnography by a thousand little selves, David Bright, Monash University Exploring upon my comings and goings between cultures and languages, Elizabeth Aguirre Armendáriz, Universidad A... Read More about Autoethnography across cultures (panel).

The two cultures in Australian ELICOS: Industry managers respond to English language school teachers (2017)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2017). The two cultures in Australian ELICOS: Industry managers respond to English language school teachers. English Australia Journal : the Australian Journal of English Language Teaching, 33(1), 28-42

This article reports on a qualitative study that sought to understand managers’ perceptions of teachers’ professional identities in the Australian ELICOS sector. The study found that there is a powerful, socially imagined ‘wall’ that divides two cult... Read More about The two cultures in Australian ELICOS: Industry managers respond to English language school teachers.

Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk (2017)
Journal Article
Stanley, P., & Stevenson, M. (2017). Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk. Linguistics and Education, 38, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2017.01.001

This qualitative study critically examines the intelligibility of the teacher talk of novice native speaker English language teachers. It focuses on difficulties teachers face in adjusting their own English so that their learners can understand them.... Read More about Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk.

A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail? (2017)
Book
Stanley, P. (2017). A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail?. Routledge

The premise that intercultural contact produces intercultural competence underpins much rationalization of backpacker tourism and in-country language education. However, if insufficiently problematized, pre-existing constructions of cultural 'otherne... Read More about A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail?.

Panel: Autoethnography across cultures (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2016, November). Panel: Autoethnography across cultures. Presented at Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines 2016, Cape Town, South Africa

The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography (2016)
Journal Article
Zapata-Sepúlveda, P., Stanley, P., Ramírez-Pereira, M., & Espinoza-Lobos, M. (2016). The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography. Qualitative Research Journal, 16(3), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1108/qrj-07-2015-0062

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a collaborative (auto)ethnography that has emerged from the meeting of four academic researchers working with and from the heart in various Latin American contexts. Design/methodology/approach Our “... Read More about The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography.

Plenary: Indigenous research ethics for social transformation in Neoliberal times (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2016, May). Plenary: Indigenous research ethics for social transformation in Neoliberal times. Presented at 12th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, US

Chair: Patrick J Lewis, University of Regina Indigenous research ethics for social transformation in Neoliberal times, Shawn Wilson, Southern Cross University Indigenous research ethics for social transformation in Neoliberal times, Marcelo Diversi... Read More about Plenary: Indigenous research ethics for social transformation in Neoliberal times.

‘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). Rotterdam: 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.

Ethical considerations in Language Policy Research (2015)
Book Chapter
Canagarajah, S., & Stanley, P. (2015). Ethical considerations in Language Policy Research. In F. M. Hult, & D. C. Johnson (Eds.), Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide (33-44). Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley

Ethics is becoming important in research as well as in policy as one can witness a critical turn in language planning and policy (LPP) and other domains of scholarly inquiry. While the positivistic tradition adopted the stance of objectivity, neutral... Read More about Ethical considerations in Language Policy Research.

Language-learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing 'The Known' and its Impact on Interculturality (2015)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2015). Language-learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing 'The Known' and its Impact on Interculturality. In D. J. Rivers (Ed.), Resistance to the Known: Counter-Conduct in Language Education (23-46). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345196_2

Think of ‘typical’ Australian scenes, and what springs to mind? Likely images include blond surfers on sun-drenched beaches, Indigenous faces patterned with paint, Sydney Opera House, cricket and rugby, dangerous wildlife and outback terrain, and cur... Read More about Language-learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing 'The Known' and its Impact on Interculturality.

Talking to strangers: Learning Spanish by using it (2015)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2015). Talking to strangers: Learning Spanish by using it. In D. Nunan, & J. C. Richards (Eds.), Language Learning Beyond the Classroom (244-252). New York: Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.

Theorizing the cultural borderlands: Imag(in)ing "them" and "us" (2015)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2015). Theorizing the cultural borderlands: Imag(in)ing "them" and "us". In J. Brown, & N. F. Johnson (Eds.), Children’s Images of Identity: Drawing the Self and the Other (1-13). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers

No abstract available.

Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels (2014)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2015). Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 44(2), 143-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241614528708

Doing PhD is a “black box.” While inputs, outputs, and milestones are visible, there is a sizeable gap in our understanding of candidates’ lived experiences. This may cause some academic advisors to erroneously assume their students’ experiences are... Read More about Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels.

A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai (2013)
Book
Stanley, P. (2013). A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai. London: Routledge

Tens of thousands of Western ‘teachers’, many of whom would not be considered teachers elsewhere, are employed to teach English in public and private education in China. Little has previously been known, except anecdotally, about their experiences, a... Read More about A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai.

Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want (2013)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2013). Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want. English Australia Journal : the Australian Journal of English Language Teaching, 28(2), 38-52

Students from the People's Republic of China are the single largest cohort of international students in Australia, and although attempts have been made to understand their needs and desires in situ, few scholars have considered the recently reformed... Read More about Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want.

‘Qualified’? A framework for comparing ELT teacher preparation courses (2013)
Journal Article
Stanley, P., & Murray, N. (2013). ‘Qualified’? A framework for comparing ELT teacher preparation courses. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 36(1), 102-115. https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.36.1.05sta

There is no standard via which to measure the ‘qualified’ English language teacher in a way that is meaningful to institutions seeking to employ teaching staff. This is significant given that candidates may differ markedly in their language competenc... Read More about ‘Qualified’? A framework for comparing ELT teacher preparation courses.

Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics (2012)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2012). Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics. In L. Hernandez (Ed.), China and the West : encounters with the other in culture, arts, politics and everyday life (73-92). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

No abstract available.

Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities (2011)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2012). Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities. Gender, Place and Culture, 19(2), 213-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2011.573141

This article examines the ‘superhero’ phenomenon, in which Western masculinity is constructed differently in East Asia than in Western countries. This produces an imagined, Occidentalist ‘authenticity’ that frames expectations about the performances... Read More about Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities.

‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China. (2008)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2008). ‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4(1), 67-89. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v4i1.67

This paper examines Western teachers’ and Chinese students’ assumptions about second language acquisition and the nature of language itself. It explores the interaction of outward classroom behaviours derived from these assumptions as symbols that ma... Read More about ‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China..