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Theorizing gender in homestay settings: Mobilities and/as power relations

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 t...

Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram

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 hav...

An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors

Journal Article
Stanley, P. (in press)
An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 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 exper...

The fires we made, the fires that made us: Introducing the Forum

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 th...

Scottish Highlands campervan mobilities in pandemic times: Enclosures

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-...

Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism

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 tou...

Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour

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 heal...

Crafting a DIY Campervan and Crafting Embodied, Gendered Identity Performances in a Hyper-masculine Environment

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 mechan...

On ants, life, and spinsterhood.

Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2018)
On ants, life, and spinsterhood. New Philosopher, 21, 110-112
No abstract available.

Competitive camping.

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 expens...