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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On ants, life, and spinsterhood. (2018)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2018). On ants, life, and spinsterhood. New Philosopher, 21, 110-112

No abstract available.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..