Outputs (20)

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.

Fat and fabulous bodies: Navigating body shape expectations, positivity and acceptance in outdoor leisure activities (2024)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P., Baker, M., & Carr, N. (in press). Fat and fabulous bodies: Navigating body shape expectations, positivity and acceptance in outdoor leisure activities. In Whose Body Belongs? Exploring corporeal inclusion, equity and justice in outdoor leisure. Wallingford: CAB International Publishing

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”.

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.

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.

On the difficulties of writing about culture in autoethnography (2018)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018). On the difficulties of writing about culture in autoethnography. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography. Abingdon & New York: Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.

Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone (2018)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018). Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography (129-141). Abingdon: Routledge

No abstract available.

Economy class? Lived experiences and career trajectories of private-school English-language teachers in Australia (2016)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2016). Economy class? Lived experiences and career trajectories of private-school English-language teachers in Australia. In P. Haworth, & C. Craig (Eds.), The career trajectories of English language teachers (185-199). Oxford, United Kingdom: Symposium Books. https://doi.org/10.15730/books.97

No abstract available.

Must the (Western) Hydra be blond(e)? Performing cultural 'authenticity' in intercultural education (2016)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2016). Must the (Western) Hydra be blond(e)? Performing cultural 'authenticity' in intercultural education. In P. Bunce, V. Rapatahana, R. Phillipson, & R. Tupas (Eds.), Why English? Confronting the hydra (93-105). Bristol: Multilingual Matters

No abstract available.

‘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.

Telling Stories: Theorizing narrative sensemaking as introspective research method. (2014)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2014). Telling Stories: Theorizing narrative sensemaking as introspective research method. In J. Brown (Ed.), Navigating International Academia: Research Student Narratives (5-16). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers

No abstract available.

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.

Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China (2011)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2011). Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China. In L. Jin, & M. Cortazzi (Eds.), Researching Chinese learners: skills, perceptions and intercultural adaptations (93-118). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299481_5

No abstract available.

Performing foreigners: Attributed and appropriated roles and identities of Westerners teaching English in Shanghai (2011)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2011). Performing foreigners: Attributed and appropriated roles and identities of Westerners teaching English in Shanghai. In M. Lobo, V. Marotta, & N. Oke (Eds.), Intercultural Relations in a Global World(Common Ground). Common Ground Research Networks

No abstract available.

The hidden curriculum: A critical analysis of tertiary English teaching in China (2011)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2011). The hidden curriculum: A critical analysis of tertiary English teaching in China. In J. Ryan (Ed.), China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation, 193-210. Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.