Fat and fabulous bodies: Navigating body shape expectations, positivity and acceptance in outdoor leisure activities
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
The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies
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 pos...
Queering queerness: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in post-pandemic times
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...
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...
Us and Them: Affective materialities and the binarizing effects of “study abroad”
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: ...
Solo trails/trials for this unlikely hiker: Purpose, purity, and quest
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (in press)
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, h...
Autoethnography, assemblage, and the lived/researched subjectivity of hiking "alone"
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...
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...