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Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Remember to register for joining this stimulating session on the meaning, content, reasons, and possible trajectories and challenges of civil disobedience in times of climate catastrophe with Robin Celikates on Monday! tinyurl.com/civil-disob

Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, June 15! We do an interactive session with @robin-c.bsky.social on Civil Disobedience in Times of Climate Catastrophe, followed by a moderated discussion from diverse perspectives. To register: tinyurl.com/civil-disob

Civil Disobedience in Times of Climate Catastrophe: Philosophical, Conceptual, and Social Psychological Questions The Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series Robin Celikates Freie Universität Berlin Monday, June 15, 2026 Vancouver 7.00 am; Mexico City 8.00 am; New York 10.00 am; Berlin 16.00; Ramallah 17.00; Istanbul 17.00; New Delhi 19.30; Jakarta 21.00 As climate activism more frequentlyinvolves direct challenges to the modernproperty regime, it triggers responsesfrom the state that defend this regime.This defense combines repression – byway of policing, surveillance,imprisonment etc.- with willfulmanipulation and ideological obfuscationregarding the relevant categories,including the very category of civildisobedience and the potential meaningsof ‘radical’ protest. Against thisbackground, my contribution will advancethree claims: 1) In response to neoauthoritarian tendencies to repress anddelegitimize protest – especially protestframed as ‘radical’–, it is crucial, for boththeoretical and political reasons, tounderstand what civil disobedienceentails and why it is called civil, even ifits ends and/or means may appear asradical. 2) Civil disobedience, properlyunderstood, can entail acts usuallyconsidered to be violent (and thus ‘tooradical’), namely the destruction,deactivation, or damaging of property(especially climate disruptive machinery, infrastructure and equipment). 3) In theface of climate catastrophe, there areadditional strong reasons – beyondestablished, more general radicaldemocratic arguments – to stretch thelimits of the civil beyond its narrowliberal and conventionalist interpretation.In this interactive session (90 min), Dr. Celikates will address these questions,followed by moderated discussionbringing together philosophical, socialpsychological and activist perspectives.
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

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

Did you miss the session on "Methods for psychological research on resistance and repression"? Do you want to recollect some of the content? Great! This was a (consent-based) recorded session, now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnHN...

Methods for psychological research on resistance and repression

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

Did you miss this stimulating session? Do you want to recollect some thoughts or discussions from the content? Great! This was a recorded session based on participants' consents and it is now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIQ...

Rethinking Protest Tactics and Allyship in Contexts of Repression

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

Happening next Monday! Remember to register to go beyond the conceptual binaries of protests as normative vs non-normative, conventional vs radical and to dig in why and how individuals shift protest tactics with Mete Sefa presenting, Yasemin & Carmen acting as reviewers. 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.
Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happening tomorrow! Join the research bazaar and bring along your methodological interventions/stories to study diverse forms of resistance in different contexts of repression. To register: 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.
Resistance Psychology Network@psychresist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is an interactive "methods bazaar". Thus, you can also bring along your methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two (optional, not required for participation). Remember to register: 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.