Johanna Ray Vollhardt

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.

(PDF) Between solidarity and betrayal: how differences in societal acknowledgement, group position and expectations inform intergroup relations in the context of collective victimization / Entre solid... PDF | Social psychological research on collective victimization and intergroup relations often focuses on attitudes towards perpetrator groups and a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Important new special issue now published in the International Journal of Social Psychology/Revista de Psicología 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 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.

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 – 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 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.

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)

The 2nd 2025 issue (in progress) of the Journal of Social & Political Psychology is out: with articles on populism, dementia activism, SDO and conservatism in Japan, ingroup conspiracy beliefs, & lay theories about racial health disparities in the US. Open access: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

The @journalgenocide.bsky.social has a new Roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies. My introduction is freely available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

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...

Columbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardice We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions

As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it).

Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"This application of Adorno’s maxim 'never again Auschwitz' has made of it the opposite of what he intended: a tool of [Germany's] Staatsräson instead of resistance against it." Must-read, authoritative analysis of Germany's misguided response to Gaza, unearthing gems from Adorno's work and more!

How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.

"Collective action is crucial. We can all seek out allies, organise among peers and build powerful coalitions, rather than hoping science will passively translate into change. Time is of the essence."
theconversation.com/how-scientis...

New book: "The power of collective resilience against political violence and repression" (Ed. Yasemin Acar, Blerina Këllezi, & Sandra Penić) www.routledge.com/The-Power-of...

We are looking for proposals for the first session in the Psychology of Resistance (in violent and repressive contexts) Virtual Meeting Series on September 8! If you are ready to go please submit through the form below! (Submissions for later dates also welcome of course)

More information about the series can be found here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com and most of the past sessions are recorded and available here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/archive.html