Learning, critiquing, emerging

Stanley, Phiona; Bishop, Michelle; Manchi, Madhavi; Delesclefs, Davina; Zakeri, Elham; Bryant, Alana

doi:10.4324/9780429280016-19

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“…The work of gathering and iteratively analyzing the data was undertaken between 2012 and 2019 by Phiona Stanley, who is a White, Scottish-Australian scholar and who was then working on a theorization of how intercultural competence develops in contact settings (see, e.g., Stanley, 2015, 2017, 2019; Stanley & Vass, 2018). Since 2019, however, Phiona’s reading, thinking, and theorizing have moved toward critical studies of tourism (e.g., Stanley, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022; Wight & Stanley, 2022). The transcripts from the original study were thus re-analyzed—in 2020 to 2023—to produce the present paper.…”

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Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Stanley,

Wight

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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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 students, teachers, and managers in Australian English language schools to understand what language-travelers expect from their Australian experiences and the implications for language schools. The findings propose that sojourners’ experiences are framed by pre-visit imaginaries of object authenticity, wherein the “object” is both Australian culture and the wider Anglophone “West.” Such imaginaries are found to be validated by language schools, which face pressure to balance letting students glimpse the “backstage” and staging out-group imagined “authenticities,” such as by hiring fun, approachable, and above all White teachers. We identify opportunities for language centers to understand their role within tourism as cultural mediators and suggest ways forward in promoting and inculcating critical intercultural competence among language-traveler sojourners.

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Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Stanley,

Wight

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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“…Butz and Besio (2009) refer to it as “identity work” (p. 1660) as it is the exercise of consciously and introspectively looking at the self and observing the self as a social phenomenon. The result of engaging in such a deeply self-reflective and narrative process has the power to uncover subjective cultural and political beliefs, values and ideas in the name of social justice (Adams et al, 2014; Chang et al, 2016; Ellis and Bochner, 2006; Stanley, 2020). However, there have been questions about the robustness of the autoethnography as it only represents a single participant view and does not support relational analyses (Lapadat, 2017).…”

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“…Collaborative autoethnography can involve the contribution of individual work which is analysed by the group or the combination of multiple voices to interrogate the layers and overlap of several shared narratives (Cruz et al, 2020). Autoethnographic vignettes are one technique that has been used in both SW, ethnographic and feminist research to document lived experience (Lipton and Mackinlay, 2017; Naples, 2003; Stanley, 2020; Witkin, 2014). This rich tradition was followed within this study with individuals providing vignettes which were then analysed by the group.…”

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“…Aiming to further combine feminist methodology and collaborative autoethnography with critical SW, the vignettes were also reflective, capturing our impression of event/s and our emotional responses to them which could change over time (Chang et al, 2016; Stanley, 2020). Aligning with an autoethnographic tradition the vignettes provide accessible examples for examination which can contribute to social change (Ellis and Bochner, 2006).…”

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Creating safety: Group reflections on surviving as a female, social work early career academic in the neoliberal academy

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Saxton

Lovric

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Qualitative Social Work

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Female social work early career academics (ECAs) face many challenges within a neoliberal university context. The tension between balancing the social justice mission of the profession against the consumer model of higher education is conflicting and contributes to feelings of isolation and alienation. This article documents a group of female ECAs experiences by drawing on critical, post-modern and feminist knowledge traditions. The qualitative methodology used was collective autoethnography and critical reflection where the group documented and collectively analysed individual experiences of teaching social work education as female ECAs. The purpose of collating these experiences was to explore the emancipatory capacity of female agency as well as embodying what it is to be a female ECA. Vignettes were thematically examined in a three-part process including (1) reading and reviewing data; (2) categorising and group data and (3) finding themes and connecting these to the original data ( Chang et al., 2016 ). Analysis of the vignettes highlighted the tensions of working as female social justice educators within a neoliberal university causing feelings of oppression and discomfort. In finding one another, sharing and writing stories as well as a collective response this challenged the masculinist model which has been the norm within neoliberal universities. Female led support strategies coupled with the utilisation of feminist methodologies contributes to the emergence of a new, feminist and collectively safer academic culture.

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Learning, critiquing, emerging

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Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Creating safety: Group reflections on surviving as a female, social work early career academic in the neoliberal academy

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