G Downey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Downey |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Downey |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8243-9257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonising the psychology curriculum: Perspectives from faculty at a UK university
Over the past decade, there have been increasing calls to decolonise the Psychology curriculum. However, decolonisation initiatives have been criticised for being superficial and insufficient. In this study we explored Psychology faculty members’ perceptions and experiences with decolonisation at a UK university. Twenty participants engaged in semi-structured interviews, discussing views on higher education, current issues in Psychology, and deco…
Microethnographic Modes: Techniques and Principles for Integrating Digital Tools in Qualitative Research
As digital tools become increasingly available and pervasive in everyday life, ethnographers are presented with new opportunities to integrate video, audio recording, and other data to enhance field research. This paper explores how digital technologies can be usefully integrated in field research examining sports and cultural performance, not just to objectify, record activity, or engage in reductive analysis, but rather to enhance qualitative i…
From the Cold War to the manosphere: Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender wars— AE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee
Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of new right‐wing political movements across Europe, the US, and elsewhere, gender has taken on heightened political and social significance. To better understand this phenomenon, AE ’s editors interview two specialists on contemporary gender: Greg Downey, a psychological anthropologist, and Kristen R. Ghodsee, an ethnographer and historian of socialist and postsocialist women's struggle for equal rights…
The incremental transformation of the body through freediving: A biocultural approach to reflexive bodily practices
Expert freediving explores the limits of human endurance, with some divers staying underwater for over 10 min or reaching crushing depths on a single breath. This article explores the enskilment process, especially how freediving training involves a suite of reflexive bodily practices with psychological, neurological, and physiological consequences. Examined closely and over time, skill acquisition is a multi-dimensional process involving self-dr…
Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies: What anthropology can teach psychology about nonreproducibility
Beginning in 2011, public scandals and high-visibility critiques of research methods in psychology fed a broader "replication crisis": foundational experiments could not be replicated, and statistical methods in social psychology demonstrated vulnerability to fraud and manipulation. Even well-intended researchers following accepted psychological protocols-zombie methodologies-could unintentionally produce false positives. In response, social psyc…
Capoeira
Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
Fifteen years ago Richard R. John's groundbreaking book Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) demonstrated that the claim of a “communications revolution” was perhaps more applicable to the early nineteenth-century movement of printed newspapers through a human-powered and animal-powered postal network than to the movement of bits over the then-nascent World Wide Web. John set the early postal system and new…
Ethics Review and Anthropology
Producing Pain: Techniques and Technologies in No-Holds-Barred Fighting
Starting in 1993, the Ultimate Fighting Championship broadcast ‘no-holds-barred’ fights, pitting athletes trained in a variety of combat sports against each other. While critics were scandalized by the permissiveness of these contests, aficionados were stunned by the effectiveness of relatively non-violent fighting techniques. The matches revealed how resilient a trained fighter’s body might become. Fighters had to adapt to several waves of chang…
Domesticating an Urban Menace: Reforming Capoeira as a Brazilian National Sport
Themistii Orationes Quae Supersunt. Volumen II
Byzanz . A. M. Schneider , Franz Dölger
La Géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin . R. Janin
Excavations at Nessana, Volume II: Literary Papyri . By Lionel Casson and Ernest L. Hettich
Kleinasien und Byzanz: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Altertumskunde und Kunstgeschichte
The Inscription on a Silver Chalice from Syria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Constantine and the Conversion of Europe
The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, Being a First Report on the Excavations Carried Out in Istanbul on Behalf of the Walker Trust (The University of St. Andrews) 1935-1938
Paganism and Christianity in Procopius
The great historian of the reign of Justinian (A. D. 527-565) was Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine. He wrote a history of the wars of Justinian, an account of the Emperor's building activities, and a slanderous Secret History, designed to be published after his own death, in which he made a vicious attack on Justinian and Theodora
The Composition of Procopius, De Aedificiis
Imperial Building Records in Malalas
Producing Pain: Techniques and Technologies in No-Holds-Barred Fighting
Starting in 1993, the Ultimate Fighting Championship broadcast ‘no-holds-barred’ fights, pitting athletes trained in a variety of combat sports against each other. While critics were scandalized by the permissiveness of these contests, aficionados were stunned by the effectiveness of relatively non-violent fighting techniques. The matches revealed how resilient a trained fighter’s body might become. Fighters had to adapt to several waves of chang…
Domesticating an Urban Menace: Reforming Capoeira as a Brazilian National Sport
Paganism and Christianity in Procopius
The great historian of the reign of Justinian (A. D. 527-565) was Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine. He wrote a history of the wars of Justinian, an account of the Emperor's building activities, and a slanderous Secret History, designed to be published after his own death, in which he made a vicious attack on Justinian and Theodora
Imperial Building Records in Malalas
The incremental transformation of the body through freediving: A biocultural approach to reflexive bodily practices
Expert freediving explores the limits of human endurance, with some divers staying underwater for over 10 min or reaching crushing depths on a single breath. This article explores the enskilment process, especially how freediving training involves a suite of reflexive bodily practices with psychological, neurological, and physiological consequences. Examined closely and over time, skill acquisition is a multi-dimensional process involving self-dr…
Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies: What anthropology can teach psychology about nonreproducibility
Beginning in 2011, public scandals and high-visibility critiques of research methods in psychology fed a broader "replication crisis": foundational experiments could not be replicated, and statistical methods in social psychology demonstrated vulnerability to fraud and manipulation. Even well-intended researchers following accepted psychological protocols-zombie methodologies-could unintentionally produce false positives. In response, social psyc…
Imperial Building Records in Malalas
The Composition of Procopius, De Aedificiis
The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, Being a First Report on the Excavations Carried Out in Istanbul on Behalf of the Walker Trust (The University of St. Andrews) 1935-1938
Paganism and Christianity in Procopius
The great historian of the reign of Justinian (A. D. 527-565) was Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine. He wrote a history of the wars of Justinian, an account of the Emperor's building activities, and a slanderous Secret History, designed to be published after his own death, in which he made a vicious attack on Justinian and Theodora
Constantine and the Conversion of Europe
Excavations at Nessana, Volume II: Literary Papyri . By Lionel Casson and Ernest L. Hettich
Kleinasien und Byzanz: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Altertumskunde und Kunstgeschichte
The Inscription on a Silver Chalice from Syria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Byzanz . A. M. Schneider , Franz Dölger
La Géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin . R. Janin
Themistii Orationes Quae Supersunt. Volumen II
Domesticating an Urban Menace: Reforming Capoeira as a Brazilian National Sport
Producing Pain: Techniques and Technologies in No-Holds-Barred Fighting
Starting in 1993, the Ultimate Fighting Championship broadcast ‘no-holds-barred’ fights, pitting athletes trained in a variety of combat sports against each other. While critics were scandalized by the permissiveness of these contests, aficionados were stunned by the effectiveness of relatively non-violent fighting techniques. The matches revealed how resilient a trained fighter’s body might become. Fighters had to adapt to several waves of chang…
Ethics Review and Anthropology
Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
Fifteen years ago Richard R. John's groundbreaking book Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) demonstrated that the claim of a “communications revolution” was perhaps more applicable to the early nineteenth-century movement of printed newspapers through a human-powered and animal-powered postal network than to the movement of bits over the then-nascent World Wide Web. John set the early postal system and new…
Capoeira
The incremental transformation of the body through freediving: A biocultural approach to reflexive bodily practices
Expert freediving explores the limits of human endurance, with some divers staying underwater for over 10 min or reaching crushing depths on a single breath. This article explores the enskilment process, especially how freediving training involves a suite of reflexive bodily practices with psychological, neurological, and physiological consequences. Examined closely and over time, skill acquisition is a multi-dimensional process involving self-dr…
Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies: What anthropology can teach psychology about nonreproducibility
Beginning in 2011, public scandals and high-visibility critiques of research methods in psychology fed a broader "replication crisis": foundational experiments could not be replicated, and statistical methods in social psychology demonstrated vulnerability to fraud and manipulation. Even well-intended researchers following accepted psychological protocols-zombie methodologies-could unintentionally produce false positives. In response, social psyc…
From the Cold War to the manosphere: Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender wars— AE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee
Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of new right‐wing political movements across Europe, the US, and elsewhere, gender has taken on heightened political and social significance. To better understand this phenomenon, AE ’s editors interview two specialists on contemporary gender: Greg Downey, a psychological anthropologist, and Kristen R. Ghodsee, an ethnographer and historian of socialist and postsocialist women's struggle for equal rights…
Decolonising the psychology curriculum: Perspectives from faculty at a UK university
Over the past decade, there have been increasing calls to decolonise the Psychology curriculum. However, decolonisation initiatives have been criticised for being superficial and insufficient. In this study we explored Psychology faculty members’ perceptions and experiences with decolonisation at a UK university. Twenty participants engaged in semi-structured interviews, discussing views on higher education, current issues in Psychology, and deco…
Microethnographic Modes: Techniques and Principles for Integrating Digital Tools in Qualitative Research
As digital tools become increasingly available and pervasive in everyday life, ethnographers are presented with new opportunities to integrate video, audio recording, and other data to enhance field research. This paper explores how digital technologies can be usefully integrated in field research examining sports and cultural performance, not just to objectify, record activity, or engage in reductive analysis, but rather to enhance qualitative i…
History (12 works) · Art (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works)