@jrvollhardt
Social/Political Psychologist, Associate Professor at Clark University, co-editor of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology; Scientist Rebellion; research: collective violence, victim beliefs, resistance. https://wordpress.clarku.edu/jvollhardt
Last week's session on prefigurative politics in repressive settings (see quoted post below) is also available in our archive here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/archive.html, where you can find all recorded sessions in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series.
Did you miss the session on "Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts" with activists and researchers from Lebanon, Serbia and Turkey?
Here's the recorded session, now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel:
youtu.be/Q0S65MPOu8E
Tomorrow at Clark, in person! Join is if you are in the area.
The Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series meets again Mon, Feb 9: social psychologists (incl @tijana-et-al.bsky.social, @yasemingacar.bsky.social, @thia-sagh.bsky.social) & activists will discuss prefigurative movements in Lebanon, Serbia, & Turkey. Registration: tinyurl.com/prefigurative
If you are in Worcester, MA or surrounding, join us next Wednesdsy for a talk (in person only, open to the public) by Dr. Gail Sahar @gsprof.bsky.social on the role of blame attributions increased political polarization in the US.
![A CT ING A S I F WE WERE FREE: PREF I G U R A T IVE
P O L I T ICS IN REPRESSIVE C ONTEXTS
Ps y c h o l ogy o f Re s i s t a n c e Vir t u a l M e e t i ng Se ri e s
This roundtable will bring together activists from Lebanon and Serbia who have engaged in some form of prefigurative politics, and researchers who have studied prefigurative movements in these two contexts and Turkey. All three contexts were or are marked with extensive use of police violence and other forms of severe repression. Researchers will present key insights from their studies on prefigurative movements. The roundtable will invite activists to reflect on what kinds of research, knowledge, or theoretical tools could best support their struggles, and will also give them the opportunity to respond directly to academic interpretations of their work.
TIJANA KARIฤ [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG]
CHADEN NOUEIHED HANI [ACTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LEBANON]
THIA SAGHERIAN-DICKEY [UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE]
YASEMIN GรLSรM ACAR [UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS]
JELENA BOลฝIฤ [SVIฤE, SERBIA]
ORHAN KAYA [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG]
MONDAY, FEB 9, 2026
9:00 San Francisco 11.00 Managua
12:00 New York 17.00 London 18:00
Belgrade 19.00 Beirut 20.00 Istanbul
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A CT ING A S I F WE WERE FREE: PREF I G U R A T IVE P O L I T ICS IN REPRESSIVE C ONTEXTS Ps y c h o l ogy o f Re s i s t a n c e Vir t u a l M e e t i ng Se ri e s This roundtable will bring together activists from Lebanon and Serbia who have engaged in some form of prefigurative politics, and researchers who have studied prefigurative movements in these two contexts and Turkey. All three contexts were or are marked with extensive use of police violence and other forms of severe repression. Researchers will present key insights from their studies on prefigurative movements. The roundtable will invite activists to reflect on what kinds of research, knowledge, or theoretical tools could best support their struggles, and will also give them the opportunity to respond directly to academic interpretations of their work. TIJANA KARIฤ [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG] CHADEN NOUEIHED HANI [ACTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LEBANON] THIA SAGHERIAN-DICKEY [UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE] YASEMIN GรLSรM ACAR [UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS] JELENA BOลฝIฤ [SVIฤE, SERBIA] ORHAN KAYA [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG] MONDAY, FEB 9, 2026 9:00 San Francisco 11.00 Managua 12:00 New York 17.00 London 18:00 Belgrade 19.00 Beirut 20.00 Istanbul REGISTER: TINYURL.COM/PREFIGURATIVE
The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, February 9:
We do a Roundtable Session on Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts with activists from Lebanon and Serbia and researchers studying prefigurative movements.
To register: tinyurly.com/prefigurative
Now out in Political Psychology and open access, led by Helin รnal: "Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Meinungsbild zu Gaza, Israel, Deutschlands Auรenpolitik, zur Medienberichterstattung, zu pro-palรคstinensischen Parolen, zu Antisemitismus und zur Erinnerungskultur ๐
Mit @thomaserichter.bsky.social
Verรถffentlicht als @giga-hamburg.de Focus Nahost.
www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...
Call for submissions, "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" preconference at EASP, June 30 2026, Strasbourg docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference:
"Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory"
@easp2026.bsky.social โจ
With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social
Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
Tomorrow!
If you are in or around Worcester, MA, please join us next Wednesday, Nov. 19th, for a talk about the role of the military in the climate crisis - including Massachusetts involvement, the US military more broadly, the Gaza genocide, and global inequality. In person at Clark University, Dana Commons.
While there are some commonalities in these themes across the different groups in our study, their present-day societal status and power differences shape experiences of collective victimization and how people think about it. Link to full text of the paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 5/5
that can undermine positive relations between minority groups; and (2) experiences of solidarity and alliances between groups in the context of collective victimization versus experiences of betrayal of the victimized ingroup by outgroups and the perceived need for vigilance towards others. 4/5
The 2 categories of themes we identified that shaped peoples' perceptions of outgroups through the lens of collective victimization experiences were about (1) acknowledgment vs denial of collective victimization, including observations of uneven recognition of different victim groups in society 3/5
This article reports findings from a thematic analysis of focus groups with Armenian & Jewish Americans, Burundian & Nepali Bhutanese refugees. We analyzed collective victimization beliefs focused on intergroup relations, beyond the often studied comparisons of suffering of ingroup vs outgroups 2/5
Now published (in English and Spanish!): "Between solidarity and betrayal: how differences in societal acknowledgement, group position and expectations inform intergroup relations in the context of collective victimization" - brief summary and link to text in ๐งต journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Important new special issue now published in the International Journal of Social Psychology/Revista de Psicologรญa Social (each article in both English and Spanish!): "Exploring double standards in ethnicity, migration, and intercultural relations" journals.sagepub.com/toc/SPJ/curr...
Tomorrow! On the social psychology of disruptive, confrontational protests and the shift in resistance tactics in repressive contexts. Still time to register, here: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
Beyond Dichotomies: Rethinking Protest Tactics and How They Shape Allyship by Mete Sefa Uysal (university of Exeter) Peer Review as Conversation (90 Minutes) Reviewers: Yasemin Gรผlsรผm Acar (St Andrews University) and Carmen Marazzi (Clark University) Abstract: Allyship in social movements does not emerge in a vacuum. It unfolds in contested political and moral contexts where the tactics used by marginalised groups play a critical role in shaping support from the general public. Yet, existing scholarship often collapses diverse protest forms into binary categories like normative vs. nonnormative or conventional vs. radical. Recent studies on confrontational collective action (Uysal et al., 2024,2025) challenge existing categorisations that treat protest tactics as fixed and morally preferable over one another. It sees protest tactics as a continuum in which they coexist within activistsโ repertoires of resistance and shifts the focus to the conditions under which individuals transition between tactics against repression. Following this critique, I aim to discuss when confrontational and disruptive actions hinder and catalyse solidarity and allyship, rather than treating them as inherently alienating. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/disruptive-protest Monday, November 10, 2025 Vancouver, Canada: 9:00; New York, United States: 12:00; London, United Kingdom: 17:00; Ramallah, Palestine: 19:00 The picture includes a headshot of Mete Sefa Uysal wearing glasses and a vertically striped shirt in a green leafy background. The picture also includes a QR code for the registration link also added to the original post.
The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, November 10:
We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests,
@yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants
To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Call for papers for the workshop "From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance" - March 25 โ 26, 2026 Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ikss.zrc-sazu.si/sites/defaul...
Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
This coming Monday at 7 am New York time, 13.00 Barcelona time, 21.00 Brisbane time! Join us for a research methods bazaar to swap methods for psychological research on resistance in violent and repressive contexts. Register here to get the zoom link: tinyurl.com/resistancere...
Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar Interactive Workshop (90 mins) Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coลkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt) Monday, Oct 13, 2025 Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressedโ in part because of the methodological limitations and rigidities in the field, in addition to practical and ethical considerations. For example, how does one examine covert resistance under conditions of surveillance and risk, how does one access forms of everyday resistance that may not be articulated as such, how does one conduct research on resistance that is under repression without creating further risk or harm to the participant and/or to the research team, how does one access information about resistance under extremely violent and most repressive conditions, such as genocide? This session is an interactive methods workshop, a bazaar of ideas and research experience, where participants will share and swap knowledge about underutilized methods that have been or could be used to examine different forms of resistance (above all those forms of resistance that are understudied) in various contexts of violence and repression. The organizers will bring examples of a relevant, underutilized research method and share it with participants in a brief (5 min) blitz presentation. We also invite participants (optional, not required for participation) to bring along their methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two. We will also discuss more general, overarching questions related to methodological limitations in research on resistance and repression and ways to address these. 7.00 am NYC, 8.00 Santiago (Chile), 12 (noon) London, 13.00 Barcelona, 14.00 Ramallah & Istanbul, 16.30 New Delhi, 19.00 Manila, 21.00 Brisbane. Registration link in the original post.
The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, October 13:
We start with an interactive workshop to diversify our methodological toolbox to better investigate forms of resistance and repression in different contexts.
To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...
and thank you @canancoskan.bsky.social for curating this account! <3
The Psychology of Resistance (in violent, repressive contexts) Virtual Meeting Series and network is now here on Blue Sky, please follow for our updates on upcoming talks, recordings from sessions, papers from our presenters, etc.! bsky.app/profile/psyc...
The 3rd year of the Psychology of Resistance (in violent, repressive contexts) Virtual Meeting Series is starting this month - here is the schedule for the academic year 2025/26. More information, recordings, and form for mailing list to receive registration links here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com
If in or near Worcester, MA, join us on Thursday, October 9, 6-8 pm at Clark University for Dr. Orwa Switat's talk about his multi-method, multidisciplinary work on "Remapping Demolished Spaces and Narratives in Haifa". (Discussant: Prof. Elyse Semerdjian, on parallels to Armenians in Syrian cities)