Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social)

Associate Prof, Clark University, co-editor Journal of Social & Political Psychology, works on collective violence/oppression & resistance; Scientist Rebellion

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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: https://t.co/dk2U6sdrf8. A 🧵with brief summaries and links to the 16 chapters in this volume.

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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 https://t.co/YU5d4nXdEI & in our archive of all recorded sessions: https://t.co/ARTDfRpEEO

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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: https://t.co/WGSh93ouLm

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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" https://t.co/PAPhwGMjph

[south/south movement 🍉 @SouthSouthMvmt]

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

🔗https://t.co/FYys6eqOUo

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 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.”

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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.

[Kerem Schamberger @KeremSchamberg]

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"

https://t.co/MFt56yWxpk

[placeless @b_placeless]

Falls sich jemand die Doku ansehen möchte, deren Vorführung der Genosse Politkommissar @BuettnerAndreas im Thalia-Kino in Potsdam verhindert hat.
https://t.co/ZuIrhBo4aX

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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.

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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: https://t.co/0LWSv33NLK

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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" https://t.co/Sp4pIuv3Zy Brief summary & link to text in🧵

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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" https://t.co/MWjAaOts02

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

Tomorrow! Still time to register: https://t.co/Tlva1xinn4

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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 https://t.co/Tlva1xinn4

[Johanna Ray Vollhardt (jrvollhardt.bsky.social) @JoRayVo]

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 https://t.co/Tlva1xinn4

[Journal of Genocide Research @JournalGenocide]

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.
https://t.co/2LrGWKjWOL

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza https://t.co/QLVKk584xj

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

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: 🧵
https://t.co/hOJbz7Cwle