Johanna Ray Vollhardt
@jrvollhardt.bsky.social
Social/Political Psychologist, Associate Professor at Clark University, co-editor of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology; Scientist Rebellion; research: collective violence, victim beliefs, resistance. https://wordpress.clarku.edu/jvollhardt
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
October 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
If in or near Worcester, MA, join us on Thursday, October 9, 6-8 pm at Clark University for Dr. Orwa Switat's talk about his multi-method, multidisciplinary work on "Remapping Demolished Spaces and Narratives in Haifa". (Discussant: Prof. Elyse Semerdjian, on parallels to Armenians in Syrian cities)
October 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
If in or near Worcester, MA, join us on Thursday, October 9, 6-8 pm at Clark University for Dr. Orwa Switat's talk about his multi-method, multidisciplinary work on "Remapping Demolished Spaces and Narratives in Haifa". (Discussant: Prof. Elyse Semerdjian, on parallels to Armenians in Syrian cities)
The 2nd 2025 issue (in progress) of the Journal of Social & Political Psychology is out: with articles on populism, dementia activism, SDO and conservatism in Japan, ingroup conspiracy beliefs, & lay theories about racial health disparities in the US. Open access: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The 2nd 2025 issue (in progress) of the Journal of Social & Political Psychology is out: with articles on populism, dementia activism, SDO and conservatism in Japan, ingroup conspiracy beliefs, & lay theories about racial health disparities in the US. Open access: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
New book: "The power of collective resilience against political violence and repression" (Ed. Yasemin Acar, Blerina Këllezi, & Sandra Penić) www.routledge.com/The-Power-of...
August 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New book: "The power of collective resilience against political violence and repression" (Ed. Yasemin Acar, Blerina Këllezi, & Sandra Penić) www.routledge.com/The-Power-of...
[Resharing with a typo on session time fixed in flyer:] Join us for several discussions and talks in the Palestine solidarity track at ISPP in Prague this week if you are attending! For more information about "Political Psych 4 Palestine" sign up here (same as QR code): tinyurl.com/PolPsy4Palestine
July 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
[Resharing with a typo on session time fixed in flyer:] Join us for several discussions and talks in the Palestine solidarity track at ISPP in Prague this week if you are attending! For more information about "Political Psych 4 Palestine" sign up here (same as QR code): tinyurl.com/PolPsy4Palestine
Updated flyer without typo in the time of the last session:
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Updated flyer without typo in the time of the last session:
If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!
July 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
If you are at ISPP in Prague this week, join us for several talks and discussions in the Palestine solidarity/Political Psychology for Palestine track!
Now published in JSPP: "Investigating the Role of Multiple Disadvantaged Groups and Intersectional Awareness in Promoting Intraminority Solidarity" (Bailey Falco & Helena Radke). Article as always in JSPP open access, here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
June 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Now published in JSPP: "Investigating the Role of Multiple Disadvantaged Groups and Intersectional Awareness in Promoting Intraminority Solidarity" (Bailey Falco & Helena Radke). Article as always in JSPP open access, here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
New in JSPP, reporting a discourse analysis of focus groups with different views on Catalan independence: "Divided Opinion: The Interactional Accomplishment of Ideological Antagonism" (Balinhas & Tileaga). Read and download the article here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
June 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New in JSPP, reporting a discourse analysis of focus groups with different views on Catalan independence: "Divided Opinion: The Interactional Accomplishment of Ideological Antagonism" (Balinhas & Tileaga). Read and download the article here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
New by Glasford & Brown in JSPP, on the inequalities in academia & imagining ways out of them: "Systemic Hierarchy Within Academic Disciplines: How Resource Capital and Social Capital Stratify Academics and Form the Basis of Disciplinary Group-Based Inequality" OA: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
June 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New by Glasford & Brown in JSPP, on the inequalities in academia & imagining ways out of them: "Systemic Hierarchy Within Academic Disciplines: How Resource Capital and Social Capital Stratify Academics and Form the Basis of Disciplinary Group-Based Inequality" OA: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
The next session (&last before a 3-month break) of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series is next Monday: canan coskan @canancoskan.bsky.social, Hu Young Jeong & Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social will discuss a paper on power & resistance among the Kurdish diaspora. Register in🧵
May 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The next session (&last before a 3-month break) of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series is next Monday: canan coskan @canancoskan.bsky.social, Hu Young Jeong & Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social will discuss a paper on power & resistance among the Kurdish diaspora. Register in🧵
Join us next Friday, May 2 in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series for a talk by Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink on "Dissident Reasoning in the Arab World". To register: tinyurl.com/DISSIDENTS-A...
April 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Join us next Friday, May 2 in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series for a talk by Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink on "Dissident Reasoning in the Arab World". To register: tinyurl.com/DISSIDENTS-A...
Join us next Monday, April 7 in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series for a talk by Dr. Nina Bagdasarova on "Securityscapes of LGBTQ people in Kyrgyzstan - Everyday life and practice". To register: tinyurl.com/securityscapesLGBTQ, more info on the series: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/
March 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Join us next Monday, April 7 in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series for a talk by Dr. Nina Bagdasarova on "Securityscapes of LGBTQ people in Kyrgyzstan - Everyday life and practice". To register: tinyurl.com/securityscapesLGBTQ, more info on the series: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/
Join us at Clark Univeristy (Worcester, MA) on Monday, April 14 for a screening of "The Palestine Exception" (palestineexceptionfilm.com) and panel discussion about the Palestine solidarity protests on US campuses, their repression, and academic freedom. Free & open to the public.
March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Join us at Clark Univeristy (Worcester, MA) on Monday, April 14 for a screening of "The Palestine Exception" (palestineexceptionfilm.com) and panel discussion about the Palestine solidarity protests on US campuses, their repression, and academic freedom. Free & open to the public.
Link to article here, as always open access thanks to @psychopengold.bsky.social: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
February 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Link to article here, as always open access thanks to @psychopengold.bsky.social: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
New in JSPP, on the often ignored difference b/w leftists & liberals: "Understanding Committed Leftists in the U.S. Right Before the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election"(Flores-Robles @gfloresrob.bsky.social, Alto, Anderson, Wylie @jowylie.bsky.social, Satter, & Gantman @anagantman.bsky.social. Link in🧵
February 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
New in JSPP, on the often ignored difference b/w leftists & liberals: "Understanding Committed Leftists in the U.S. Right Before the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election"(Flores-Robles @gfloresrob.bsky.social, Alto, Anderson, Wylie @jowylie.bsky.social, Satter, & Gantman @anagantman.bsky.social. Link in🧵
Join us in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting series next Monday, March 3, for a session with Dr. Azadeh Akbari (and discussants Joshua Uyheng & Ali Teymoori) on "Resistance Within and Against Digital Surveillance Regimes". Registration link and more info on the series in 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Join us in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting series next Monday, March 3, for a session with Dr. Azadeh Akbari (and discussants Joshua Uyheng & Ali Teymoori) on "Resistance Within and Against Digital Surveillance Regimes". Registration link and more info on the series in 🧵
Pleased to share the first empirical article in the 2025 volume of the Journal of Political and Social Psychology: a qualitative study with Palestinian feminist scholars reflecting on colonial and decolonial dynamics in knowledge production. As always open access: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
February 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Pleased to share the first empirical article in the 2025 volume of the Journal of Political and Social Psychology: a qualitative study with Palestinian feminist scholars reflecting on colonial and decolonial dynamics in knowledge production. As always open access: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
The 2025 volume of the Journal of Social & Political Psychology is now opened: The first article is our annual editorial reporting journal statistics and critically discussing features of the articles published in 2024 in relation to our journal aims. Access here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
February 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The 2025 volume of the Journal of Social & Political Psychology is now opened: The first article is our annual editorial reporting journal statistics and critically discussing features of the articles published in 2024 in relation to our journal aims. Access here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
Join us next Monday, Feb. 3 in the Psychology of Resistance virtual meeting series for a session with Dr. Eric Shuman and climate activists to discuss: "What do we know and what do we still need to know about the effects of disruptive collective action?" Registration and session info in🧵
January 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Join us next Monday, Feb. 3 in the Psychology of Resistance virtual meeting series for a session with Dr. Eric Shuman and climate activists to discuss: "What do we know and what do we still need to know about the effects of disruptive collective action?" Registration and session info in🧵
If you are curious about nonviolent direct action (NVDA) -especially disruptive actions and civil disobedience - as a tactic in climate activism and want to discuss its effectiveness, join us this Sunday for a @srti.bsky.social
virtual Salon! Link in flyer, no registration needed.
virtual Salon! Link in flyer, no registration needed.
January 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you are curious about nonviolent direct action (NVDA) -especially disruptive actions and civil disobedience - as a tactic in climate activism and want to discuss its effectiveness, join us this Sunday for a @srti.bsky.social
virtual Salon! Link in flyer, no registration needed.
virtual Salon! Link in flyer, no registration needed.
Schedule with upcoming sessions in the series:
January 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Schedule with upcoming sessions in the series:
The first session of 2025 in the Psychology of Resistance series is next Monday, Jan 13: Yara Zebian will discuss "Non-collective forms of resistance during Lebanon's economic crisis: A social psychological exploration of bank raids & everyday resistance". Registration link and more info in🧵
January 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The first session of 2025 in the Psychology of Resistance series is next Monday, Jan 13: Yara Zebian will discuss "Non-collective forms of resistance during Lebanon's economic crisis: A social psychological exploration of bank raids & everyday resistance". Registration link and more info in🧵