David Clarke

Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)

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Crowds & Identities and friends gather to wish a temporary farewell to @daclarkecruz.bsky.social at Eat Central, @sussex.ac.uk

Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine Esteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...

Political psychology exists to expose dehumanisation, moral disengagement, and complicity in oppression. #ISPP’s leadership enacts them. A society that will not call genocide by its name has abandoned its foundations. Sign the petition 👇

Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine Esteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...

If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough.

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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...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

When “political” psychology hides in lab-coat abstractions while a people are massacred and starved, it’s not just irrelevant but complicit. (2/2)

Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians.

‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region.

Shame on the signatories.

(1/2)

Anas Al-Sharif pictured with his two young children that he is holding. They are all smiling.

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

Vegans! Please consider participating in our online study on communicating about veganism 🌱 prize draw £25 voucher

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Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti‐Right‐Wing Protests in Germany In the early 2024, over three million people in Germany took to the streets to protest a secret plan by right-wing extremists to deport individuals with migration background, publicised as ‘re-migrat...

New publication alert!
Our latest article is now published in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🎉
“Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti-Right-Wing Protests in Germany”
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

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Sustainability talks and visa walls: reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard - Energy Demand Research Centre

A vital blog exposes how “visa walls” quietly shape who gets heard at academic conferences. As the authors argue, “we must design our spaces to reflect the diversity of the world we hope to sustain.” Change begins with confronting what keeps people out, not through empty promises to include them.

1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than "noises off". Now, as the disaster materialises, he's desperately backtracking.
Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity for someone -- please share.

Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC)

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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Grenfell: Uncovered review – heartwrenching account of avoidable tragedy Bleak, enraging documentary combines firsthand accounts of the disaster with appalling record of official negligence

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Headline from NYT: U.S. Military Is Pulled Back Into Middle East Wars

The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the #GrenfellTower fire.
At 6:00pm, #Grenfellcommunity members are holding a #SilentWalk starting from Notting Hill Methodist Church. All supporters are invited.

During my PhD research, I and @profjohndrury.bsky.social
conducted ethnographic fieldwork ++

Just about to put these two @crowdsidentities.bsky.social systematic reviews on the School display board - @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social

Gaza flotilla: The Madleen shows us the world as it could be What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?

‘What if this wasn’t the only boat? What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?’

Not sure this is the read. Musk is so deep in the rabbit hole of illegal aliens/woke Marxist globalism that the protests probably remind him that he cares more about his “cultural” alignment with Trump than his disagreement with the new bill – to the point he can put his ego to the side.

That means a lot – thank you!

Riots after Southport attack more similar to those in 1958 than in 2011, study finds Researchers question unrest being far-right protests and say disorder had more in common with 1950s race riots

News report on our new pre-print on the summer 2024 anti-immigrant riots.
@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded

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New from Drury & Vestergren. The chapter synthesises decades of research on how participation in collective action transforms people, challenges the field’s focus on predictors, and calls for methods to trace these transformations. It also highlights prefiguration as a key future research direction.

Crowds & Identities and friends celebrate @daclarkecruz.bsky.social’s birthday at Eat Central @sussex.ac.uk, with @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @jaz-kane.bsky.social @monicabarnard.bsky.social @mitakshara-medhi.bsky.social @schreiber-julia.bsky.social