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.

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/jspp…

Now published, along with the Spanish translation: "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/10.1177/02…

I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Now published: "Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora" (Ünal & Vollhardt). Article is open access and available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca…

🌍Want to track COVID transmission accurately worldwide? This PMC thread walks you through leading dashboards with information more up to date than WHO & EU directories. 🧵 1/

[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: tinyurl.com/PolPsy4Palesti…

We invite all people of conscience, especially SPSSI & APA members, to sign onto this call for SPSSI (Division 9 of American Psychological Association) to adopt the Resolution on Boycott, Disclosure, & Divestment for Palestine. ‼️SIGN & SHARE EVERYWHERE‼️ cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/…

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/jspp…

Please watch this in its entirety. Listen to beautiful Mahmoud use his first moments of freedom to state that “no human is illegal” & to speak of the men he met & the stain on this country that is its immigrant detention facilities. Free them all! kalb.com/2025/06/20/bre…

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all. Growth in energy and material use is occurring primarily in countries that do not need it and is not occurring fast…

Did you know we built one of the most comprehensive documentation databases on Israel’s destruction of the health sector in the Gaza Strip? It is a vital resource for anyone seeking detailed data and evidence. Please share and help spread the word. gazahcsector.palestine-studies.org/en

Interesting new article in JSPP on the self-perpetuating inequalities and hierarchies in academia, and imagining new ways around and out of them👇

Ich fasse es nicht. Der israelische Angriff war kein Akt der Selbstverteidigung. Wer das behauptet, der verhäckselt gerade den rules-based international order. 1/

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download. versobooks.com/products/115-r…

Mehr palästinensische Positionen! Der Historiker Ussama Makdisi im Gespräch mit den Palestinian and Jewish Academics über "Zionismus, Kolonialismus und andauernde Nakba" (im ND) nd-aktuell.de/artikel/119172…

How terrible for Germany, a country famously free of antisemitism until 10 years ago