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Johanna Ray Vollhardt

@jrvollhardt.bsky.social

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

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt@jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.

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Recordings, publications, and other archival material will be published here. Feb 9, 2025: Acting as if we were free - Prefigurative politic...

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Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

Christine Binzel@christinebinzel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Meinungsbild zu Gaza, Israel, Deutschlands Außenpolitik, zur Medienberichterstattung, zu pro-palästinensischen Parolen, zu Antisemitismus und zur Erinnerungskultur 👇 Mit @thomaserichter.bsky.social Veröffentlicht als @giga-hamburg.de Focus Nahost. www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...

Gaza, Israel und Deutschlands Außenpolitik: ein Meinungsbild

Eine im August 2025 durchgeführte Umfrage zeigt, dass die Mehrheit der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen eine Außenpolitik gegenüber Gaza und Israel befürwortet, die sich am Völkerrecht orientiert und ...

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt@jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Call for submissions, "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" preconference at EASP, June 30 2026, Strasbourg docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Fiona Kazarovytska@zakfio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

Johanna Ray Vollhardt@jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt@jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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...

Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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...

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 Gülsüm 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 activists’ 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.
Johanna Ray Vollhardt@jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar Interactive Workshop (90 mins) Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coşkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt) Monday, Oct 13, 2025 Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressed– 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.