Daniel Balinhas

The official call is now out! seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/con...

🚨2 ERC-funded Postdocs🚨
IDENTITY ERROR combines computational & experimental approaches to model epistemic vulnerability. 2 posts are available in our supportive & interdisciplinary team.

Further details:

Computational: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...
Social Psych: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

ICYMI, check out @georgenewth.bsky.social's blog on the limits of Keir Starmer's 'patriotic' discourse and his ongoing enabling of the far right.

reacpol.net/starmer-farr...

Just one week to go before the submission deadline for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference. You can submit your paper to the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group stream below!

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The image contains the schedule of the planned events for the Psychology of Resistance Network. The schedule can be found online: https://resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html

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

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 word ‘populism’ is a gift to the far right – four reasons why we should stop using it Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.

This short piece co-authored with Alex Yates shows why the misuse of populism plays right in the hands of the far right

(Annoyingly, the app is not allowing me to tag colleagues, but follow them!)

theconversation.com/the-word-pop...

📢 Call open!
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes.

ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns...

🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right Using survey data from Spain we show that the gender gap in the probability of voting for the radical-right party Vox is mainly due to men having higher levels of modern sexism than women. We find ...

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you so much for recommending my work, @lknochelmann.bsky.social!

@bcastanho.bsky.social, in addition to this paper, we've been working on a new one that is gonna come out soon with @juanroch.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social. We extensively and critically discuss these assumptions.

Affective Polarization in the Face of Crisis: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and De-Escalation Policies in Spain Abstract. Prior research on affective polarization (AP) has often overlooked short-term variations due to external shocks and crises, which have significan

A belated 'repost'
@galais.bsky.social
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🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat
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One of the reasons why people often prefer debating ("dining across the divide") with the far right than the left is that the former makes them feel good about themselves by comparison

Debates with/amongst the left bring up uncomfortable reflections about our participation in systems of oppression

We cannot allow this to stand anymore! We have prepared a petition calling for a boycott of the next ISPP 2026 conference in Newcastle, UK, unless the Executive Committee resigns or responds to our concerns. Please read and sign the petition here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‘The people’, ‘legitimate concerns’ and the far-right ‘protests’ Our understanding of the world, beyond the most direct elements in our personal life, is always mediated. In today’s information landscape…

While there can be no complacency in countering fascists on the streets, concerns about the far right must also be concerns about the role of mainstream politicians and media in shaping the reactionary agenda

aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...

The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence Much has been written about how mainstream parties respond to far-right challengers in liberal democracies. Whereas some mainstream parties have become more open to forming coalitions with far-righ...

New article out!

@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social,
@k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics

Read the full article, open access, here

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Why people reclaim words meant to insult them – and how this has become a powerful tool for protest Saying ‘yes, I’m queer’ or ‘yes, I’m fat’ isn’t just resistance, it can be the start of a political identity.

New from me and @yasemingacar.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com, summarising our recent work on the role of reappropriation/reclaiming stigmatising labels in identity politicisation, empowerment, and collective action.

theconversation.com/why-people-r...

For those interested in ‘polarization’ and political conflict, check this interview by @reacpolrn.bsky.social. I discuss why we need critical approaches to political polarization beyond ahistorical & depoliticizing calls for social harmony. Many thanks to @aurelmondon.bsky.social for the interview!

It's crucial to counter claims that polarisation (much like populism) is always bad

The middle ground between racism and anti-racism, transphobia and trans rights, genocide and anti-genocide is complicit with racism, transphobia and genocide rather than the "reasonable" position

“I feel I should put that work in”: Discourses of effortfulness and essentialism among post‐Brexit applicants for Irish citizenship This article explores the post-Brexit increase in applications for Irish passports through descent, and in so doing, seeks to develop a social/political psychology of diasporic citizenship. It draws ....

New publication from me in Political Psychology on the phenomenon of the rise in applications for Irish passports post-Brexit and how such applicants negotiate discourses of citizenship and identity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'Overall, the French, German, and Austrian far right care less about Jews themselves and more about the weaponisation of antisemitism'.

Must read by @cburchett.bsky.social 👇

Interview: On the weaponisation of anti-antisemitism by the far right (Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This interview is based on Claire Burchett's thesis 'Everyday victimhood on social media The discussion of Jews and (anti-)antisemitism in the populist radical right online space in France, Germany, a...

📣New interview📣

@cburchett.bsky.social discusses the weaponisation of anti-antisemitism by far-right parties and its role in their Islamophobic discourse.

reacpol.net/weaponisatio...

Exploring how entertainment documentaries construct London to account for the residence of the international super-rich in the “hostile environment” for migrants Unlike poorer migrant groups, governments offer visa inducements to attract wealthy individuals into a country. However, super-rich migrants’ impact on the UK has been shown to be negative. This re...

New article with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @adamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell on how the international super rich are constructed as migrants in entertainment documentaries

Open access too!

@ree-uwe.bsky.social

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VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya IBEI, 6th of November 2025 Submission form

🚨 Call for papers

📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop

📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI

📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.

Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Affective Polarization in the Face of Crisis: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and De-Escalation Policies in Spain Abstract. Prior research on affective polarization (AP) has often overlooked short-term variations due to external shocks and crises, which have significan

🚨 New Open Access! 🚨

Our article “Affective Polarization in the Face of Crisis” is now freely available!

While polarization rose among some, it dropped after de-escalation—thanks to perceived elite consensus.
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Galais & Balinhas 2025

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#QualitativeResearch #ParticipatoryActionResearch #SocialPsychology #RuralStudies #EcosocialCrisis #PlaceAttachment #Sustainability #Galicia #EnvironmentalJustice #SensesOfPlace #Degrowth #RuralVoices

Beyond the rural–urban entrenchment: untangling, exploring, and legitimizing rural diversity through participatory action research As the ecosocial crisis deepens, rural contexts have become focal points of ideological struggles over ecology and sustainability, often envisaged through the narrow framework of a rural–urban divi...

New OA paper! 🌍
We explore how diverse rural voices articulate senses of place tied to territory & land use, and how they envision sustainable futures in rural Galicia.
We delve into place, identity, and land uses in times of ecosocial crisis.

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How hard is it to find a date when you vote radical right? Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte and Alberto López Ortega explore what our dating choices reveal about democracy. While liberal circles assume radical-right supporters are socially shunned, experimental eviden...

"So, is it really that hard to find a date when you vote radical right? The answer, unsettlingly, is no. But for democracy’s sake, maybe it should be."

theloop.ecpr.eu/how-hard-is-...

A short piece with my current professional boyfriend @bertous.bsky.social in the @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

En la Facultad de Educación de la UAM han organizado este evento mañana. Muchas ganas de estar allí y pasaros si tenéis hueco!

Just over a month to go until applications for our summer school close! Apply below to develop your skills in researching reactionary politics.