Peter Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 455143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edinburgh Napier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6491-1570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Genre as mobilities infrastructure: How U.S. and Scottish solo hiking memoirs grant or withhold outdoor access
This paper examines how narrative genre functions as affective infrastructure within mobilities assemblages, shaping who feels entitled to walk alone in outdoor spaces. Drawing on autoethnographic vignettes of solo hiking in Australia and Scotland alongside critical autoethnographic readings of fifteen contemporary U.S. and Scottish solo-hiking memoirs (2012–2024), the study demonstrates how memoir narratives travel iteratively and co-constitutiv…
You’ll Never Walk Alone
This autoethnographic paper examines the paradoxical coproduction of “aloneness” in nature spaces charged with a politics of memory. The settings are Highland Clearances ruins and bothies in Scotland. Bothies are rustic shelters in remote areas at which everyone is free to stay. The Highland Clearances (1750s–1860s) were a tumultuous period during which subsistence farmers were forcibly evicted from rural land as part of Enlightenment-era “develo…
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia
Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram
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 to those that are captured within sites of atrocity. Based on an analysis of Instagram, and drawing on Scheurich’s grid of social regularities, this article critiques the practice of digilantism, codin…
Theorizing gender in homestay settings: Mobilities and/as power relations
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 least as a lens to better understanding the hospitality experiences of – and research approaches to – marginalized people, including women but also LGBTIQA+-identifying people. Discussed are the followi…
An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook , Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors
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-materialist account—drawing on Facebook updates and personal diaries—of one ECR’s experience. Interdisciplinary theorizing is proposed, using work-types and zones-of-development models. Individualism is prob…
The Fires We Made, the Fires that Made Us
The authors of this essay ventured into the Scottish outdoors together for the weekend in September 2020. They made fires to gather ’round in the early autumn darkness. Here they return to these fires as they introduce the essays in this collection, writing their way into what stays with them, what changed (with) them, what continues to change (with) them, that weekend
Scottish Highlands Campervan Mobilities in Pandemic Times
This paper explores the idea of “enclosures” as encircling lines. These include semantic boundaries, insider-outsider binaries, and the gray area that includes the technically illegal and the rarely actually prosecuted, focusing on “wild” campervanning in the Scottish Highlands. Also considered are non-enclosures: common grazing, faraway gazes for driving on single-track roads, and alone time in a campervan that is not easily regimented into work…
Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism
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 U.S.-American teenagers volunteering in medical centers where, entirely untrained, they do sutures and injections, deliver babies, and help with amputations. Second, the paper considers and critiques local norms (e…
Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
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 national parks. However, the ways in which hikers have hitherto been represented in outdoors media, advertising, and wider social imaginaries present potent barriers to participation. The paper traces th…
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 141–142
Vocatives: Correlating the syntax and discourse at the interface
Vocative expressions have been neglected in linguistic inquiry until very recently. This article provides a novel approach to the study of vocatives based on correlating the syntax and discourse at the interface. Syntactically, we provide empirical evidence that vocatives are visible to syntactic computation, belong to the C-domain, and discoursally perform a performative “at-issue” content/meaning exactly like aboutness topics (A-topics), based …
Questions of Culture in Autoethnography
Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the ‘ethno’ – the cultural – by studying their own experiences – the ‘auto’. It links the self to the cultural, allowing for an inductive grounding of theoretical insight into researchers' lived experiences. But what happens when the culture that we research is not conventionally or entirely our ‘own’? What happens when our culture does not neatly conceptualise the ‘auto’ as an individual, Weste…
Not what it used to be: But better
‘Military history’ in Australia is not what it used to be, and actually hasn’t been for about 30 years; not everyone has caught up with that news, however. Decades ago, it was the preserve of servi
‘Passing’—and ‘failing’—in Lati n America
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. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography
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 “I’s” have mingled with our very varied participations in different themes, latitudes, and disciplines – health, education and psychosocial approaches. We have worked, variously, in both English and Sp…
In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality
This article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence which toleration historically aimed at containing remains a constant in present-day recourses to its relevancy, while the negative valuations of human i…
India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter StanleyProfessor Peter Stanley of University of New South Wales, Canberra, is the author of 27 books. Die in Battle, Do not Despair: the Indians on Gallipoli, 1915, will be published by Helion & Co., UK, in 2015
Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels
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 necessarily comparable to their own, and to proceed accordingly. But lived experiences vary enormously, and this autoethnographic study aims to problematize and pluralize the PhD experience by offerin…
Not Only, but Also: A Short History of Honest History
The President of the newly-established group Honest History gives an overview of the development and remit of the group
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend, new edition
Exhibition Reviews
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Books
Superheroes in Shanghai: Constructing transnational Western men's identities
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 and identities of Western men in the context. As a result, sojourning Western men in Asia may feel, and be treated, like ‘superheroes’, because their gendered national identities are attributed (super…
Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels
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 necessarily comparable to their own, and to proceed accordingly. But lived experiences vary enormously, and this autoethnographic study aims to problematize and pluralize the PhD experience by offerin…
Superheroes in Shanghai: Constructing transnational Western men's identities
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 and identities of Western men in the context. As a result, sojourning Western men in Asia may feel, and be treated, like ‘superheroes’, because their gendered national identities are attributed (super…
Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
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 national parks. However, the ways in which hikers have hitherto been represented in outdoors media, advertising, and wider social imaginaries present potent barriers to participation. The paper traces th…
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 141–142
Not Only, but Also: A Short History of Honest History
The President of the newly-established group Honest History gives an overview of the development and remit of the group
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram
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 to those that are captured within sites of atrocity. Based on an analysis of Instagram, and drawing on Scheurich’s grid of social regularities, this article critiques the practice of digilantism, codin…
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend, new edition
English language education across Greater China
English language education across Greater China, by Anwei Feng, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2011, 304 pp., £29.95/€27.96/$39.96 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-847-69349-5 In his Foreword to Anwei Feng
The Need for Rural Public Transport a Constraints‐based Case Study
The Need for Rural Public Transport a Constraints‐based Case Study
We Were There: Australian Soldiers of World War II
Books
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend. By Alistair Thomson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994. Pp. vi + 282. $19.95 cloth. The Great War Gains and Losses—ANZAC and Empire. Edited by Craig Wilcox and Janice Aldridge, Australian War Memorial and Australian National University, Canberra, 1995. Pp. xiii + 236. $15.00 paper. Gender and Wan Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake. Cambridge University…
White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India
This study traces the composition and culture of the British East India Company's Europeans in the 30 years preceding the Indian uprising of 1857, and the Europeans' protest against their subsequent incorporation into the British Army
A Narrow, Neo‐parochial History
Jas review of books
Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985. Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834. Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958. Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Life, Carlton, MUP, 2003, pp 322, pb $34.95, ISBN 0522850782. Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Mem…
Superheroes in Shanghai: Constructing transnational Western men's identities
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 and identities of Western men in the context. As a result, sojourning Western men in Asia may feel, and be treated, like ‘superheroes’, because their gendered national identities are attributed (super…
English language education across Greater China
English language education across Greater China, by Anwei Feng, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2011, 304 pp., £29.95/€27.96/$39.96 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-847-69349-5 In his Foreword to Anwei Feng
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Books
Exhibition Reviews
Not Only, but Also: A Short History of Honest History
The President of the newly-established group Honest History gives an overview of the development and remit of the group
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend, new edition
In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality
This article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence which toleration historically aimed at containing remains a constant in present-day recourses to its relevancy, while the negative valuations of human i…
India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter StanleyProfessor Peter Stanley of University of New South Wales, Canberra, is the author of 27 books. Die in Battle, Do not Despair: the Indians on Gallipoli, 1915, will be published by Helion & Co., UK, in 2015
Writing the PhD Journey(s): An Autoethnography of Zine-Writing, Angst, Embodiment, and Backpacker Travels
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 necessarily comparable to their own, and to proceed accordingly. But lived experiences vary enormously, and this autoethnographic study aims to problematize and pluralize the PhD experience by offerin…
‘Passing’—and ‘failing’—in Lati n America
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. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography
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 “I’s” have mingled with our very varied participations in different themes, latitudes, and disciplines – health, education and psychosocial approaches. We have worked, variously, in both English and Sp…
Not what it used to be: But better
‘Military history’ in Australia is not what it used to be, and actually hasn’t been for about 30 years; not everyone has caught up with that news, however. Decades ago, it was the preserve of servi
Vocatives: Correlating the syntax and discourse at the interface
Vocative expressions have been neglected in linguistic inquiry until very recently. This article provides a novel approach to the study of vocatives based on correlating the syntax and discourse at the interface. Syntactically, we provide empirical evidence that vocatives are visible to syntactic computation, belong to the C-domain, and discoursally perform a performative “at-issue” content/meaning exactly like aboutness topics (A-topics), based …
Questions of Culture in Autoethnography
Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the ‘ethno’ – the cultural – by studying their own experiences – the ‘auto’. It links the self to the cultural, allowing for an inductive grounding of theoretical insight into researchers' lived experiences. But what happens when the culture that we research is not conventionally or entirely our ‘own’? What happens when our culture does not neatly conceptualise the ‘auto’ as an individual, Weste…
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 141–142
Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
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 national parks. However, the ways in which hikers have hitherto been represented in outdoors media, advertising, and wider social imaginaries present potent barriers to participation. The paper traces th…
Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism
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 U.S.-American teenagers volunteering in medical centers where, entirely untrained, they do sutures and injections, deliver babies, and help with amputations. Second, the paper considers and critiques local norms (e…
The Fires We Made, the Fires that Made Us
The authors of this essay ventured into the Scottish outdoors together for the weekend in September 2020. They made fires to gather ’round in the early autumn darkness. Here they return to these fires as they introduce the essays in this collection, writing their way into what stays with them, what changed (with) them, what continues to change (with) them, that weekend
Sociology (17 works) · History (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Media studies (6 works)