New preprint (with @profjohndrury.bsky.social ) on prefigurative politics in Chile’s 2019 social explosion, based on interviews with participants in demonstrations and cabildos🧵: 

Enacting desired change in the present: Explaining prefigurative collective action in Chile’s 2019 social explosion

Contemporary mobilisations increasingly confront existing power structures while experimenting with alternative social relations – a dynamic often discussed as prefigurative politics. Yet social psychological research on collective action has prioritised explaining why people participate, paying l...

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New re-vamped @crowdsidentities.bsky.social website, with new @sussex.ac.uk brand formatting -- looks good! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...

Interested in the psychology of disruptive behaviour at music events? Well have a read of this. Highlights include me, @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @sanjeedah.bsky.social throwing ourselves around in mosh pits for science (plus in-depth interviews & a big old survey). dx.doi.org/10.1111/asap...

New from @daclarkecruz.bsky.social and colleagues - towards a new way of thinking about and studying collective action

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'Beyond the politics of demand: Prefigurative politics and the future of collective action research' New pre-print from @swedishprotests.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social and others with important argument about how social psych approaches collective action osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! 💫🇵🇸 doi.org/10.1080/0038...

Call for contributions for the small meeting on the social psychology of prefigurative politics is open! 🤩 This is a slightly different conference, check out the info sheet to learn more - even if you haven't worked on prefiguration yet 😉 So excited about this! drive.google.com/file/d/1nsof...

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

Crowds & Identities and friends gather to wish a temporary farewell to @daclarkecruz.bsky.social at Eat Central, @sussex.ac.uk

Political psychology exists to expose dehumanisation, moral disengagement, and complicity in oppression. #ISPP’s leadership enacts them. A society that will not call genocide by its name has abandoned its foundations. Sign the petition 👇

Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine

Esteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...

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If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine

Esteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...

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A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Former ISPP leadership responding to ISPP statement on Gaza

September 1, 2025 Dear colleagues, dear members of the current ISPP Executive Committee, We write as former members of the ISPP leadership (including former president(s), vice president(s), Governi...

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ISPP@polpsyispp.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

ISPP@polpsyispp.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025

Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians. ‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region. Shame on the signatories. (1/2)

ISPP@polpsyispp.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live

Vegans! Please consider participating in our online study on communicating about veganism 🌱 prize draw £25 voucher universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New publication alert! Our latest article is now published in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🎉 “Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti-Right-Wing Protests in Germany” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti‐Right‐Wing Protests in Germany

In the early 2024, over three million people in Germany took to the streets to protest a secret plan by right-wing extremists to deport individuals with migration background, publicised as ‘re-migrat...

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Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

@drselintekin.bsky.social @adriennewhitworth.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · last yr.

The last Crowds & Identities meeting of the academic year, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, and with presentation on his important work from @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social on lay crowd theory in US debates on #BLM

A vital blog exposes how “visa walls” quietly shape who gets heard at academic conferences. As the authors argue, “we must design our spaces to reflect the diversity of the world we hope to sustain.” Change begins with confronting what keeps people out, not through empty promises to include them.

Sustainability talks and visa walls: reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard - Energy Demand Research Centre

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1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than "noises off". Now, as the disaster materialises, he's desperately backtracking. Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity for someone -- please share. Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC) www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

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Grenfell: Uncovered review – heartwrenching account of avoidable tragedy

Bleak, enraging documentary combines firsthand accounts of the disaster with appalling record of official negligence

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The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

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Today marks the 8th anniversary of the #GrenfellTower fire. At 6:00pm, #Grenfellcommunity members are holding a #SilentWalk starting from Notting Hill Methodist Church. All supporters are invited. During my PhD research, I and @profjohndrury.bsky.social conducted ethnographic fieldwork ++

Just about to put these two @crowdsidentities.bsky.social systematic reviews on the School display board - @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social

‘What if this wasn’t the only boat? What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?’

Gaza flotilla: The Madleen shows us the world as it could be

What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?

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