Resistance Psychology Network

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.

YouTube video by Resistance Psychology Network Acting as if we were free: Prefigurative politics in repressive contexts

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:
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A CT ING A S I F WE WERE FREE: PREF I G U R A T IVE P O L I T ICS IN REPRESSIVE C ONTEXTS Ps y c h o l ogy o f Re s i s t a n c e Vir t u a l M e e t i ng Se ri e s This roundtable will bring together activists from Lebanon and Serbia who have engaged in some form of prefigurative politics, and researchers who have studied prefigurative movements in these two contexts and Turkey. All three contexts were or are marked with extensive use of police violence and other forms of severe repression. Researchers will present key insights from their studies on prefigurative movements. The roundtable will invite activists to reflect on what kinds of research, knowledge, or theoretical tools could best support their struggles, and will also give them the opportunity to respond directly to academic interpretations of their work. TIJANA KARIĆ [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG] CHADEN NOUEIHED HANI [ACTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LEBANON] THIA SAGHERIAN-DICKEY [UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE] YASEMIN GÜLSÜM ACAR [UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS] JELENA BOŽIĆ [SVIĆE, SERBIA] ORHAN KAYA [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG] MONDAY, FEB 9, 2026 9:00 San Francisco 11.00 Managua 12:00 New York 17.00 London 18:00 Belgrade 19.00 Beirut 20.00 Istanbul REGISTER: TINYURL.COM/PREFIGURATIVE

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, February 9:

We do a Roundtable Session on Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts with activists from Lebanon and Serbia and researchers studying prefigurative movements.

To register: tinyurly.com/prefigurative

Happening today! Remember to register!

INSPIRATIONAL HAUNTINGS AND FEARLESS ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University) PHOTO Read & Discuss (60 minutes) https://tinyurl.com/AnticolonialResist QR code Monday, Jan 12, 2026 9.00 Vancouver, 12.00 New York, 17:00 London, 20.00 Istanbul The history of the oppressed is marked not only by oppression but also by resistance. This talk explores what makes fearless resistance possible under colonialism through anthropological fieldwork with Kurds and Turkish Alevis. It draws on the experiences of the racialized Kurdish and Turkish Alevi residents of a working-class space in Istanbul that is constantly under the surveillance of undercover police agents. It argues that understanding the resistance of the colonised requires considering the "inspirational hauntings" of past resistance: how the memory of defiant subjects and historical oppression creates an invigorating force that transforms ethical questions about justice into active, undisguised resistance. The audience is invited to read Deniz's published article (https://tinyurl.com/dnzyncrsst) beforehand and to contribute to the discussion.

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, January 12:

We do a Read & Discuss (60 min) session with @denizyonucu.bsky.social on the memory past and current anticolonial resistance of Kurds and Turkish Alevis in Istanbul

To register: tinyurl.com/AnticolonialResist

Title: Morals and community as influences on collective action in light of repression among young adults in the Netherlands: A mixed-methods investigation Presenter: Samaher Yehya The rich literature on collective actioninfluences has examined these factors inisolation. Thus, the question of how differentsocial, contextual, and individual factorsinteract to influence collective action remains,particularly under perceived or actualrepressive contexts. Similarly, the dichotomouscategorization of collective action tactics intonormative (non-confrontational) and non￾normative (confrontational) collective actionremains a significant limitation in ourunderstanding of how different tacticsinterrelate. This study implements a sequentialexploratory mixed-methods design among ayoung sample of individuals active in Palestinesolidarity actions in the Netherlands (a contextthat is not generally repressive butincreasingly more repressive on Palestineactivism) to assess how (1) morals and values,(2) opinion-based identity, (3) relationship withauthority figures, and (4) sense of communityinterplay and influence different forms ofcollective action. Study 1 was a qualitativeinvestigation, with interviews that showcasedhow community and morals counteractparticipation obstacles due to perceivedrepression. Study 2 implemented anexploratory factor analysis to evaluate thefactor structure of collective action tactics, andshowed that moral obligation, perceptions ofrisk, and negative relations with authoritiespredict disruptive and confrontationalcollective action, whereas anger only predictsdisruptive collective action. Perceived riskdeterred any form of participation. Findingshighlight the importance of community inmotivating and sustaining action, even in lightof perceived repression, and the need to gobeyond a binary understanding of collectiveaction tactics. Time: Monday, Dec 8, 2025. 8.00 New York, 10.00 Santiago (Ch),15.00 Ramallah, 16.00 Istanbul, 18.30 NewDelhi, 21.00 Manila

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, December 8:

We do a Talk (15 mins) & Discussion (30 mins) session with Samaher Yehya on Palestine solidarity actions (morals, community, and diverse tactics) in the Netherlands

To register: tinyurl.com/morals-comm

Did you miss the session on "Methods for psychological research on resistance and repression"?

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This was a (consent-based) recorded session, now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel:
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Did you miss this stimulating session?

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This was a recorded session based on participants' consents and it is now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel:

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Happening today!

Still time to register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...

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.
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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...

Exciting! 👀

CfP for the workshop ""From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance" (submission deadline: 5 November)

The workshop will take place on March 25–26, 2026 at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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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...

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...

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...

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