Johanna Ray Vollhardt

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

Resistance Psychology Virtual Session Proposals After the successful conclusion of the third round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts meeting series, we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2025-...

Call for presentations and sessions in the next round of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series, September '25 - June '26! Details and formats as well as proposal submission form here: forms.gle/jcs2XEx9igdS... and more information about the series in the thread!

Between solidarity and betrayal: how differences in societal acknowledgement, group position and expectations inform intergroup relations in the context of collective victimization / Entre solidaridad... Social psychological research on collective victimization and intergroup relations often focuses on attitudes towards perpetrator groups and a limited range of ...

Now published, along with the Spanish translation: "Between Solidarity and Betrayal: How Differences in Societal Acknowledgement, Group Position and Expectations Inform Intergroup Relations in the Context of Collective Victimization" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora People make sense of their group's collective victimisation in different ways. These different collective victimisation beliefs may be linked to distinct resistance strategies against the ingroup's v....

Now published: "Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora" (Ünal & Vollhardt). Article is open access and available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

[Resharing with a typo on session time fixed in flyer:] Join us for several discussions and talks in the Palestine solidarity track at ISPP in Prague this week if you are attending! For more information about "Political Psych 4 Palestine" sign up here (same as QR code): tinyurl.com/PolPsy4Palestine

Updated flyer without typo in the time of the last session:

📢 Small timing correction for Sunday's session: It starts at 11.40

If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!

Now published in JSPP: "Investigating the Role of Multiple Disadvantaged Groups and Intersectional Awareness in Promoting Intraminority Solidarity" (Bailey Falco & Helena Radke). Article as always in JSPP open access, here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

New in JSPP, reporting a discourse analysis of focus groups with different views on Catalan independence: "Divided Opinion: The Interactional Accomplishment of Ideological Antagonism" (Balinhas & Tileaga). Read and download the article here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

New by Glasford & Brown in JSPP, on the inequalities in academia & imagining ways out of them: "Systemic Hierarchy Within Academic Disciplines: How Resource Capital and Social Capital Stratify Academics and Form the Basis of Disciplinary Group-Based Inequality" OA: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

3 Lessons From International Protests Amid the L.A. Unrest (Gift Article) Experts who study protest movements say the scenes unfolding in California broadly follow a script that has played out many times in other countries — sometimes with deadly consequences.

“Harsh crackdowns may generate sympathy for protesters, said Omar Wasow, a political scientist at UC Berkeley who studies protest movements. The “spectacle of violence and repression,” he said, can frame states as ‘bullies’ unjustly squashing expression.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

Op-ed about an amicus brief a group of Jewish scholars in the US (myself included) filed in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration, against Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel. Link to brief submitted to court: drive.google.com/file/d/1rSZM...

Was complete coincidence but yes 😊

Archive Recordings, publications, and other archival material will be published here. MSCI 25 Session 3 - June 3, 2025: Ideological Inversion Measur...

Archive with recordings of (almost) all sessions in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series is here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/archive.html

The recording of this session on Kurdish diaspora perceptions of power and their relation to resistance ,with canan coskan @canancoskan.bsky.social, Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social, and Hu Young Jeong, is now online: youtu.be/CIOspki0Gwk