David Clarke
@daclarkecruz.bsky.social
Social psychology PhD student.
Exploring prefigurative politics - social identity/empowerment processes.
@SussexUni
Exploring prefigurative politics - social identity/empowerment processes.
@SussexUni
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David Clarke
@daclarkecruz.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Emergent Prefigurative Politics and Social Psychological Processes: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
Prefigurative politics—the enactment of desired future social relations in present social change practices—has become central in contemporary political organising. Protest movements like the Arab Spr....
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Excited to share my first paper, published in #JCASP🎉 (open access).
With @profjohndrury.bsky.social, we engage with the rise of prefigurative politics - movements that embody desired societal change in their present practices (1/3)
With @profjohndrury.bsky.social, we engage with the rise of prefigurative politics - movements that embody desired societal change in their present practices (1/3)
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Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
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Crowds & Identities and friends gather to wish a temporary farewell to @daclarkecruz.bsky.social at Eat Central, @sussex.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Crowds & Identities and friends gather to wish a temporary farewell to @daclarkecruz.bsky.social at Eat Central, @sussex.ac.uk
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...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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 👇
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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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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...
docs.google.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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...
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
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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.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
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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.
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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.
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)
‘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)
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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)
‘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)
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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
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
August 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
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
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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
Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live
Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live
Deputy PM urges government to acknowledge people ‘real concerns’ and flagged deprivation where worst riots erupted last summer
An attempt by three former MPs to force the UK government to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote and other recent elections has failed at the European court of human rights.
The Strasbourg court ruled on Tuesday that countries had a “wide margin” in determining how to tackle attempts at electoral interference, and ruled against a case brought by Ben Bradshaw, Caroline Lucas and Alyn Smith. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
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Vegans! Please consider participating in our online study on communicating about veganism 🌱 prize draw £25 voucher
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July 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Vegans! Please consider participating in our online study on communicating about veganism 🌱 prize draw £25 voucher
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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/...
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/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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/...
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/...
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Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social
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@drselintekin.bsky.social @adriennewhitworth.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social
The last Crowds & Identities meeting of the academic year, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, and with presentation on his important work from @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social on lay crowd theory in US debates on #BLM
June 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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.
Sustainability talks and visa walls: reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard - Energy Demand Research Centre
www.edrc.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
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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? 🧵
Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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? 🧵
Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵
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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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Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC)
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Psychology Doctoral Research Studentship – Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC) : University of Sussex
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June 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity for someone -- please share.
Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC)
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC)
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it
June 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it
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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
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"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.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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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 ++
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 ++
June 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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 ++
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 ++
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Just about to put these two @crowdsidentities.bsky.social systematic reviews on the School display board - @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just about to put these two @crowdsidentities.bsky.social systematic reviews on the School display board - @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social
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‘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?’
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?
www.middleeasteye.net
June 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
‘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?’
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News report on our new pre-print on the summer 2024 anti-immigrant riots.
@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
News report on our new pre-print on the summer 2024 anti-immigrant riots.
@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...