G Davey
Biographic Data
| ID | 18943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Davey |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Davey |
| SIGNATURE | DAVEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yunnan Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7237-2741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Visitor Path Choice and Enhancing Wayfinding in Museums: A Critical Review of a Century of Research
The paths taken by visitors in museums influence what they see, do, learn, and experience. Poorly designed museums can lead to missed goals and opportunities. In this article, I critically review visitor studies published since the 1930s to evaluate explanations for visitor path choice in museums, namely, the location and attractiveness of displays, exhibits, and entrance and exit doors; spatial layout of exhibitions, galleries, and museums; cere…
Critical Reflective Praxis for Travel-Based Research: Decolonizing Urban Health and Sustainable Development in Northeast Thailand
The call to decolonize our teaching, research, and universities is gaining momentum, and change begins with our everyday actions. In this concept paper, I advance critical reflective praxis—grounded in critical race theory, decolonial thought, and Indigenous studies—as a heuristic for identifying and challenging colonialism, Eurocentrism, racism, and other biases and systems of power across the entire research process, and for moving beyond criti…
Cannabis use, Rastafari, and social justice: Breaking free from the racist shackles of addiction theory
Political mobilization, trauma, delusional dream themes, and nightmare distress in Hong Kong
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar
Myanmar has more child soldiers than any other country but the literature on this subject disregards their experiences. I analyse a first-hand account of child-soldiering in 2014 in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a non-state armed group in Kachin State, to understand motivations for associating with the armed group as well as the lived experience of being a child soldier. I critique claims made in the literature for their failure to apprecia…
Native American subjective happiness, self-construal, and decision-making
God forbid! Rethinking substance use, religion, and spirituality
Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America
Smoking and the City: A Travelogue in Yuxi
We narrate our travel in a city with a prominent tobacco company to contribute to the literature on smoking and place. We show that in Yuxi, the location of the Hongta Group, China’s largest tobacco manufacturer, a smoker’s sense of self and of place is affectively, cognitively and socially tied to the tobacco industry. Tobacco-related symbolism in the city is highly visible and abundant. Smoking and tobacco are enmeshed in the fabric of the city…
Synergistic relationships between tobacco smoking, tattooing, religiosity, and spirituality among Chinese Buddhist adolescents
Background Tobacco smoking and tattooing interact in multiple ways because they are risk factors to health and share social determinants and meanings (e.g. deviance). Existing research is limited and reliant on non-generalizable samples in Europe and the United States. Addiction studies on religious Chinese are scarce. In this study, we investigated the embeddedness of smoking in tattooing and tattoo-associated contextual factors in a representat…
The China–US blame game: Claims‐making about the origin of a new virus
On 12 March 2020, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao wrote on Twitter, ‘It might be [the] US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!’ In a brazen response, President Donald Trump described the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) as the ‘Chinese Virus’ (also termed ‘Chinese coronavirus’ and ‘Wuhan virus’ by his senior officials), implying that it orig…
Intention to be tattooed among Chinese minority adolescents: Predictions from two models
Two models of intention to have a tattoo are compared using data from a survey of 1322 Chinese Dai adolescents aged 15–19 years in seven middle schools in Yunnan Province, China. Structural equation modeling compared a Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) model with a Prototype Willingness Model (PWM). The TRA emphasizes reasoned action (deliberative, goal-oriented decision-making), while the PWM adds more impetuous (automatic and less effortful) deci…
Turning Points to Becoming a Tobacco Smoker: Smoking Initiation and Identity Change among Chinese Youth
In this study, we analyzed identity construction among young smokers in China, with three interconnected objectives: to theorize the turning points and career trajectory of smoking initiation; to account for their characteristics with interactionist processes; and to critically evaluate the applicability of classic typologies of identity change by Becker and Strauss. In-depth interviews with 24 late adolescents (ages 18-19) revealed a smoking ini…
Heterogeneity in beliefs about feeding stray animals: The complexity of human–animal interaction
People’s beliefs about feeding stray cats require investigation. Previous studies were based on assumptions about sample homogeneity, potentially obscuring within-group and background differences in beliefs. A latent class analysis was conducted on critical beliefs identified from 167 Malaysian nationals (Kuala Lumpur residents, aged 18-64), based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Two distinct subgroups were discerned, revealing heterogene…
Tattoos, Modernisation, and the Nation-State: Dai Lue Bodies as Parchments for Symbolic Narratives of the Self and Chinese Society
In this article, we report our research on Dai Lue in a rural area of Xishuangbanna, revealing how their tattoos have become an emblem of the self or an interiority cultivated through outer appearance, acted out and contested on people’s bodies as parchments for society’s discourses. China’s version of modernisation and nation-state building has underpinned shifting tattoo designs and subjectivities. Tattooing among younger people was different t…
Quality of Life and Well-Being in an Indian Ethnic Community
Conclusion
Key beliefs underlying public feeding of free-roaming cats in Malaysia and management suggestions
Public feeding of free-roaming cats subsidizes their population growth, and has consequences in highly interconnected ecosystems including predation of native wildlife and alteration of their behavior and populations. Research is needed to explain, predict, and possibly curb public feeding. We conducted a theoretically informed analysis of key beliefs underlying intentions to feed free-roaming cats in Malaysia, offering new insights as well as ma…
Lay Understandings of Health among Dai Lue in Xishuangbanna, China
This study analyses lay understandings of health among Dai Lue, an ethnic minority in China, and how they are played out in help-seeking practices. Interviews and focus groups with sixty-three rural villagers in Xishuangbanna, southwest China revealed that health was largely interpreted as a social experience embedded in Dai Lue culture and ethnicity. Salient to this interpretation was family, community connectedness and Dai Lue ceremonies and fe…
Why Do People Feed Free-roaming Cats? The Role of Anticipated Regret in an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior in Malaysia
Free-roaming cats are common in residential and public areas in Malaysia and approach people for food. However, the psychological determinants of public feeding are unknown. This study investigated public perceptions of feeding free-roaming cats, based on an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB). It consisted of qualitative belief-elicitation interviews with 25 participants, followed by a quantitative survey of 167 participants, representativ…
The Peasant in Postsocialist China. History, Politics, and Capitalism
The Peasant in Postsocialist China. History, Politics, and Capitalism." Europe-Asia Studies, 69(7), pp. 1130–1131
Chinese Visitors’ Experiences of Nature and Wild Macaques: Inspiration and Personal Growth for Living in Hong Kong
Country parks offer urban residents the opportunity to experience wildlife, engage in environmental education, and socially bond with family and friends, but little is known about these experiences in China. Twenty-five interviews were conducted in 2012 to investigate the meanings Hong Kong residents visiting Kam Shan Country Park ascribed to social contact with wild rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Findings revealed positive attitudes toward th…
Contesting modernity: Tobacco use and romanticism among older Dai farmers in Xishuangbanna, China
The majority of research about tobacco use in China focuses on Han Chinese, the main ethnic group comprising over 90 per cent of the population, and a paucity of research exists on ethnic minorities. The present study elucidates tobacco use among the Dai people, an ethnic group in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The study design consisted of interviews and grounded theory methodology in a symbolic interactionist theoretical framework. The categ…
Conflicting worldviews, mutual incomprehension: The production of intelligence across Whitehall and the management of subversion during decolonisation, 1944-1966
Writing on British intelligence has tended to concentrate on the collection machinery in specific local contexts, the development of the Joint Intelligence Committee and the use of intelligence product by government. The emphasis has been on the optimisation of the intelligence bureaucracy in the face of Colonial Office intransigence. What this analysis largely leaves out, however, is a description of the culture and practices of the Colonial Off…
Culture, Reform Politics, and Future Directions: A Review of China’s Animal Protection Challenge
Incidents of animal abuse in China attract worldwide media attention. Is China culturally inclined to animal cruelty, or is the country’s development strategy a better explanation? This article addresses the subject of animal protection in China, a topic that has been ignored for too long by Western China specialists. A review of ancient Chinese thought asks whether China lacks a legacy of compassion for animals. The article then considers how Ch…
Subjective Quality of Life in Zhuhai City, South China: A Public Survey Using the International Wellbeing Index
Normative Life Satisfaction in Chinese Societies
Contesting modernity: Tobacco use and romanticism among older Dai farmers in Xishuangbanna, China
The majority of research about tobacco use in China focuses on Han Chinese, the main ethnic group comprising over 90 per cent of the population, and a paucity of research exists on ethnic minorities. The present study elucidates tobacco use among the Dai people, an ethnic group in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The study design consisted of interviews and grounded theory methodology in a symbolic interactionist theoretical framework. The categ…
Exclusion of indigenous children from primary education in the Rajshahi Division of northwestern Bangladesh
Although education provision has recently improved in Bangladesh, the exclusion of children in the poorest families remains a pressing issue. Surveys in Bangladesh about school attendance have to date been confined to the dominant ethnic groups. Data are lacking for ethnic minorities such as indigenous children. To address this issue, we surveyed indigenous children’s primary school attendance and dropout rates in northwestern Bangladesh during 2…
Lay Understandings of Health among Dai Lue in Xishuangbanna, China
This study analyses lay understandings of health among Dai Lue, an ethnic minority in China, and how they are played out in help-seeking practices. Interviews and focus groups with sixty-three rural villagers in Xishuangbanna, southwest China revealed that health was largely interpreted as a social experience embedded in Dai Lue culture and ethnicity. Salient to this interpretation was family, community connectedness and Dai Lue ceremonies and fe…
Quality of Life in Macau, China
Visual Anthropology: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
This article briefly examines visual anthropology's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, in the form of a SWOT analysis. The aim is to comment on the subdiscipline's current status, raise awareness of challenges faced and identify possibilities for the future. Visual anthropology's strengths and opportunities include its increased acceptance by mainstream anthropology; a diverse and interdisciplinary research agenda; synergy between …
Twenty Years ofVisual Anthropology
I recently invited my colleague Gareth Davey to do a content analysis of the first 20 volumes of Visual Anthropology, to mark a milestone that we reached at the end of last year. Dr. Davey is a British psychologist who was also trained in biology and holds a Ph.D. from Bolton University in Environmental Psychology. It seemed to me—to avoid bias—that it was important not to have the survey done by an anthropologist, and especially not by an Americ…
A real man smells of tobacco smoke'-Chinese youth's interpretation of smoking imagery in film
Turning Points to Becoming a Tobacco Smoker: Smoking Initiation and Identity Change among Chinese Youth
In this study, we analyzed identity construction among young smokers in China, with three interconnected objectives: to theorize the turning points and career trajectory of smoking initiation; to account for their characteristics with interactionist processes; and to critically evaluate the applicability of classic typologies of identity change by Becker and Strauss. In-depth interviews with 24 late adolescents (ages 18-19) revealed a smoking ini…
Why Do People Feed Free-roaming Cats? The Role of Anticipated Regret in an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior in Malaysia
Free-roaming cats are common in residential and public areas in Malaysia and approach people for food. However, the psychological determinants of public feeding are unknown. This study investigated public perceptions of feeding free-roaming cats, based on an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB). It consisted of qualitative belief-elicitation interviews with 25 participants, followed by a quantitative survey of 167 participants, representativ…
When Worlds Collide: Scientists Doing Science in the Social World
Children's Television, Radio, Internet, and Computer Usage in a City and a Village of China
A first step in understanding media consumption is to understand the time people spend using media, and how usage varies across demographic groups and in response to other factors. While there is ample research from the West, research from China is less evident. Here I provide a case study of children's media usage in a rural and an urban area in China. The findings showed that a greater proportion of children in the urban sample used media such …
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) calibration study: Rationale, design and population characteristics
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), which covers a large cohort of half a million men and women from 23 European centres in 10 Western European countries, was designed to study the relationship between diet and the risk of chronic diseases, particularly cancer. Information on usual individual dietary intake was assessed using different validated dietary assessment methods across participating countries. In ord…
Evaluation of under- and overreporting of energy intake in the 24-hour diet recalls in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Epic)
EI tends to be underestimated in the vast majority of the EPIC centres, although to varying degrees; at the aggregate level most centres were below the expected reference value of 1.55. Underreporting seems to be more prevalent among women than men in the EPIC calibration sample. The hypothesis that BMI (or weight) and age are causally related to underreporting seems to be confirmed in the present work. This introduces further complexity in the w…
Visitor behavior in zoos: A review
Visitors are integral components of zoological parks and their importance has led to a research area devoted to understanding the people–zoo relationship. This paper reviews, and provides a point of entry into, the literature relating to visitor research in zoos. The field emerged relatively recently and is diverse and interdisciplinary (it shares common ground with sociology, education, psychology, zoology, and other academic disciplines). Sever…
The university entrance examination system in China
Every year, millions of high school students sit the Chinese national university entrance exam, and their results determine entry into universities or alternatives such as employment. Limited information about the exam is available in the Western literature even though it determines the future of millions of young people, and is increasingly of relevance to Western university educators. This article reviews Chinese and Western reports to provide …
Public Perceptions in Urban China toward Zoos and Their Animal Welfare
It is necessary to understand people's attitudes toward zoos because zoos that are perceived positively may receive more visitors and thus have more opportunities to fulfill their mission to promote environmental education and global conservation. Unfortunately, research is limited, particularly from developing countries such as China. The present study surveyed Chinese people's perceptions of the roles of zoos, animal welfare initiatives, and th…
Counselling in China: Past, Present and Future
This article reviews the development of psychological counselling in China. It consists of three parts: counselling in ancient China, counselling in China today, and counselling in the future. Counselling ideas can be traced back to ancient China, 2,500 years ago, but Western counselling theories have only recently been introduced into China. Counselling has become more and more popular in China, developing rapidly from schools to hospitals, comm…
Avoidance Ratings and Fears of Chinese Adults by Age, Ethnic Group, Sex, and Residency
Few studies among the Chinese population concerning avoidance out of fear have been reported. Existing studies are limited to school and collegiate samples while overlooking ethnic minorities, of which China has more than 50. In this study, a general population sample in China indicated the level at which they would avoid certain situations. The data were analyzed relative to age, ethnicity, sex, and the amount of time living in urban or rural ar…
Exclusion of indigenous children from primary education in the Rajshahi Division of northwestern Bangladesh
Although education provision has recently improved in Bangladesh, the exclusion of children in the poorest families remains a pressing issue. Surveys in Bangladesh about school attendance have to date been confined to the dominant ethnic groups. Data are lacking for ethnic minorities such as indigenous children. To address this issue, we surveyed indigenous children’s primary school attendance and dropout rates in northwestern Bangladesh during 2…
Subjective Quality of Life in Zhuhai City, South China: A Public Survey Using the International Wellbeing Index
Twenty Years ofVisual Anthropology
I recently invited my colleague Gareth Davey to do a content analysis of the first 20 volumes of Visual Anthropology, to mark a milestone that we reached at the end of last year. Dr. Davey is a British psychologist who was also trained in biology and holds a Ph.D. from Bolton University in Environmental Psychology. It seemed to me—to avoid bias—that it was important not to have the survey done by an anthropologist, and especially not by an Americ…
Children's Television, Radio, Internet, and Computer Usage in a City and a Village of China
A first step in understanding media consumption is to understand the time people spend using media, and how usage varies across demographic groups and in response to other factors. While there is ample research from the West, research from China is less evident. Here I provide a case study of children's media usage in a rural and an urban area in China. The findings showed that a greater proportion of children in the urban sample used media such …
Normative Life Satisfaction in Chinese Societies
Home Literacy Experiences and Literacy Acquisition among Children in Guangzhou, South China
Sénéchal's research in the West with English- and French-speaking children included positive relations of the development of literacy skills with home literacy experiences. There is a need to extend this research to other countries, especially in China where few studies have been done. This study examined relations of parental reports of formal and informal home literacy variables with Chinese children's vocabulary and written language developmen…
When Worlds Collide: Scientists Doing Science in the Social World
Visual Anthropology: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
This article briefly examines visual anthropology's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, in the form of a SWOT analysis. The aim is to comment on the subdiscipline's current status, raise awareness of challenges faced and identify possibilities for the future. Visual anthropology's strengths and opportunities include its increased acceptance by mainstream anthropology; a diverse and interdisciplinary research agenda; synergy between …
A real man smells of tobacco smoke'-Chinese youth's interpretation of smoking imagery in film
Quality of Life in Macau, China
Culture, Reform Politics, and Future Directions: A Review of China’s Animal Protection Challenge
Incidents of animal abuse in China attract worldwide media attention. Is China culturally inclined to animal cruelty, or is the country’s development strategy a better explanation? This article addresses the subject of animal protection in China, a topic that has been ignored for too long by Western China specialists. A review of ancient Chinese thought asks whether China lacks a legacy of compassion for animals. The article then considers how Ch…
Conflicting worldviews, mutual incomprehension: The production of intelligence across Whitehall and the management of subversion during decolonisation, 1944-1966
Writing on British intelligence has tended to concentrate on the collection machinery in specific local contexts, the development of the Joint Intelligence Committee and the use of intelligence product by government. The emphasis has been on the optimisation of the intelligence bureaucracy in the face of Colonial Office intransigence. What this analysis largely leaves out, however, is a description of the culture and practices of the Colonial Off…
Chinese Visitors’ Experiences of Nature and Wild Macaques: Inspiration and Personal Growth for Living in Hong Kong
Country parks offer urban residents the opportunity to experience wildlife, engage in environmental education, and socially bond with family and friends, but little is known about these experiences in China. Twenty-five interviews were conducted in 2012 to investigate the meanings Hong Kong residents visiting Kam Shan Country Park ascribed to social contact with wild rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Findings revealed positive attitudes toward th…
Contesting modernity: Tobacco use and romanticism among older Dai farmers in Xishuangbanna, China
The majority of research about tobacco use in China focuses on Han Chinese, the main ethnic group comprising over 90 per cent of the population, and a paucity of research exists on ethnic minorities. The present study elucidates tobacco use among the Dai people, an ethnic group in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The study design consisted of interviews and grounded theory methodology in a symbolic interactionist theoretical framework. The categ…
The Peasant in Postsocialist China. History, Politics, and Capitalism
The Peasant in Postsocialist China. History, Politics, and Capitalism." Europe-Asia Studies, 69(7), pp. 1130–1131
Quality of Life and Well-Being in an Indian Ethnic Community
Conclusion
Key beliefs underlying public feeding of free-roaming cats in Malaysia and management suggestions
Public feeding of free-roaming cats subsidizes their population growth, and has consequences in highly interconnected ecosystems including predation of native wildlife and alteration of their behavior and populations. Research is needed to explain, predict, and possibly curb public feeding. We conducted a theoretically informed analysis of key beliefs underlying intentions to feed free-roaming cats in Malaysia, offering new insights as well as ma…
Political science (30 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Psychology (24 works) · China (20 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Demography (8 works)