Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social)

Today is publication day for the volume "Resistance to Repression and Violence: Global Psychological Perspectives", co-edited with Fouad Bou Zeineddine (@mountainandsea). Link to book: global.oup.com/academic/produ…. A 🧵with brief summaries and links to the 16 chapters in this volume.

In case you missed last week's session on "Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts" with activists & researchers from Lebanon, Serbia and Turkey, the recording is now available here youtu.be/Q0S65MPOu8E & in our archive of all recorded sessions: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/archive.html

The next session in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series is this coming Monday, Feb 9 - with a panel of social psychologists and activists discussing prefigurative movements in Lebanon, Serbia, and Turkey. Register here: tinyurl.com/prefigurative

Now out in Political Psychology and open access, led by Helin Ünal: "Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po…

Call for Abstracts🪧🪧🪧 Global Student Movements Against Coloniality: Entangled Praxis of Hope, Resistance & Solidarity This is for an edited book project we’ll propose under the “Decolonial Entanglements” series (Routledge). Deadline: 27 Feb. 2026 🔗southsouthmovement.org/global-student…

🇵🇸 The last Columbia University protester still in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia, describes conditions inside the Texas facility where she has been held for the past nine months. KORDIA: “Right now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.” “Another word for this place is a big bathroom. It’s open. Everything is open. There’s no privacy.” — A judge has twice ordered Kordia’s release. Both times, the government appealed, accusing her of supporting Hamas. Kordia has denied that in court. She told her cousin: “I came to America looking for freedom and freedom of speech - freedom of everything. You know what I mean? To be held here in this place for saying - free Palestine, ceasefire now - that was, kind of a shock to me 'cause that's not the America that I heard of.” 🎥 NPR shared the audio from a recent call between Kordia and her cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, who speaks to her nearly every day.

Hier könnt ihr die Rede von Sarah El Bulbeisi beim dritten Make Freedom Ring-Konzert in München nachlesen. Sie spricht zu "Tabu und Trauma: Palästinenser:innen in Deutschland" medico.de/tabu-und-traum…

Falls sich jemand die Doku ansehen möchte, deren Vorführung der Genosse Politkommissar @BuettnerAndreas im Thalia-Kino in Potsdam verhindert hat. youtube.com/watch?v=gHc3hK…

If you are in or near Worcester, MA, please join us Wednesday, Nov. 19th, for a talk about the role of the military in the climate crisis - incl Massachusetts involvement, the US military more broadly, the Gaza genocide, and global inequality. At Clark University, Dana Commons.

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 paper: researchgate.net/publication/39…

that can undermine positive relations between minority groups; and (2) experiences of solidarity and alliances between groups in the context of collective victimization vs experiences of betrayal of the victimized ingroup by outgroups & the need for vigilance towards others. 4/5

Now published (in English & Spanish!): "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/abs/10.117… Brief summary & link to text in🧵

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/current

Tomorrow! Still time to register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-pro…

The next session in the Psychology of Resistance virtual meeting series is next Monday, Nov 10 - Mete Uysal, Yasemin Acar & Carmen Marazzi will discuss a paper on confrontational, disruptive resistance tactics and their shift under repression. Register at tinyurl.com/disruptive-pro…

We published the open access paper “The Meanings of a Second Nakba,” by Nadim Khoury, as part of the forum “Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” on November 3, 2025. tinyurl.com/2rauyvct

Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza middleeasteye.net/news/full-list…

Israeli universities seem surprised by the increasing global boycott of Israeli academia. Here is a brief list that shows how embedded Israeli academia in the military industrial complex: 🧵 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…