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Language-learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing 'The Known' and its Impact on Interculturality

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 Oper...

Performing foreigners: Attributed and appropriated roles and identities of Westerners teaching English in Shanghai

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.

Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone

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. Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.

Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics

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. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
No abstract available.

Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk

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...

Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels

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 so...

Must the (Western) Hydra be blond(e)? Performing cultural 'authenticity' in intercultural education

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. Multilingual Matters
No abstract available.

Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities

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, Oc...

Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China

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. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299481_5
No abstract available.

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...