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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last Tuesday we hosted Congolese environmental activist François Kamate Kasereka to understand better the multiple layers of repression Congolese climate activists face in their resistance in the DRC. Now you can listen it via www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqM...

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Climate Activism in the DRC: Layers of Repression and Resistance

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 5th year of the Psychology of Resistance in Repressive Contexts Virtual Meetings Series started! We are still accepting and reviewing new proposals for sessions. Interested in contributing to our series? Check our formats and apply by 30 September: tinyurl.com/resistance-psych-26-27

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Resistance Psychology Virtual Session Proposals

After the successful conclusion of the fourth round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts meeting series, we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2026...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is happening tomorrow! You can still register via tinyurl.com/DRC-climate-resistance

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you are in Worcester, MA or the area, join us next walk for Daliah Marei's talk (only in person) this Thursday, September 15, on "Collective Liberation as a Pathway to Coalition Building between Adversarial Groups" (as part of Clark University's Social Psychology Colloquium series)

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Recently discovering the Psychology of Resistance in Repressive Contexts Virtual Meetings Series? For more information about the series, recordings of past sessions, etc., please visit resistancepsych.blogspot.com

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The 5th year of the Psychology of Resistance in Repressive Contexts Virtual Meetings Series is starting! We are currently accepting and reviewing new proposals for sessions. Interested in contributing to our series? Check our formats and apply by 30 September: tinyurl.com/resistance-psych-26-27

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Tuesday, September 15: We start with a moderated discussion on resistance- repression of the Congolese climate movement with activists François Kamate Kasereka and others. To register: tinyurl.com/DRC-climate-resistance

Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings Series
CLIMATE ACTIVISM IN THE DRC: MULTI-LAYERED REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
François Kamate Kasereka
(Extinction Rebellion Rutshuru DRC, LUCHA, Debt for Climate DRC), joined by other Congolese climate
activists.
Moderator: Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Tuesday, September 15 , 2026
(90 mins)
7 am Mexico City | 9 am New York | 10 am Santiago 14.00 Kinshasa | 15.00 Warsaw | 16.00 Istanbul 18.30 New Delhi | 21.00 Manila

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In this panel discussion, Congolese environmental activist François Kamate Kasereka and other Congolese climate activists join us to discuss the multiple layers of repression in their resistance in DRC against the fossil fuel industry, ecological collapse and climate change, and varied resistance tactics they use in response, from a standpoint of nonviolent civic resistance. We will address the multifaceted nature of what climate activists in the DRC are tackling, the different sources of repression of the climate movement, and the different psychological responses to it that can hamper or fuel mobilization. François Kamate Kasereka is an environmental activist and human rights defender from the North Kivu province in the Democractic Republic of the Congo who organizes and mobilizes members of local communities, indigenous groups, young people and other marginalized individuals to defend their rights using nonviolent methods in support of climate justice, social justice, and peacebuilding. He is a member of citizen movement Lutte pour le Changement, which stands for Fight for change (LUCHA), a collective known for its commitment to democracy, good governance, and the protection of human rights in the DRC. He is also a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Rutshuru DRC, organizing against fossil fuel extraction projects in ecologically sensitive areas such as the Congo Basin. He is also a co-founder of Debt for Climate in DRC, aimed at promoting climate and economic justice in Global South.

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Happening today! You can still register via tinyurl.com/civil-disob

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Remember to register for joining this stimulating session on the meaning, content, reasons, and possible trajectories and challenges of civil disobedience in times of climate catastrophe with Robin Celikates on Monday! tinyurl.com/civil-disob

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, June 15! We do an interactive session with @robin-c.bsky.social on Civil Disobedience in Times of Climate Catastrophe, followed by a moderated discussion from diverse perspectives. To register: tinyurl.com/civil-disob

Civil Disobedience in Times of Climate Catastrophe: Philosophical, Conceptual, and Social Psychological Questions
The Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series
Robin Celikates
Freie Universität Berlin
Monday, June 15, 2026
Vancouver 7.00 am; Mexico City 8.00 am; New York 10.00 am; Berlin 16.00; Ramallah 17.00; Istanbul 17.00; New Delhi 19.30; Jakarta 21.00
As climate activism more frequentlyinvolves direct challenges to the modernproperty regime, it triggers responsesfrom the state that defend this regime.This defense combines repression – byway of policing, surveillance,imprisonment etc.- with willfulmanipulation and ideological obfuscationregarding the relevant categories,including the very category of civildisobedience and the potential meaningsof ‘radical’ protest. Against thisbackground, my contribution will advancethree claims: 1) In response to neoauthoritarian tendencies to repress anddelegitimize protest – especially protestframed as ‘radical’–, it is crucial, for boththeoretical and political reasons, tounderstand what civil disobedienceentails and why it is called civil, even ifits ends and/or means may appear asradical. 2) Civil disobedience, properlyunderstood, can entail acts usuallyconsidered to be violent (and thus ‘tooradical’), namely the destruction,deactivation, or damaging of property(especially climate disruptive machinery, infrastructure and equipment). 3) In theface of climate catastrophe, there areadditional strong reasons – beyondestablished, more general radicaldemocratic arguments – to stretch thelimits of the civil beyond its narrowliberal and conventionalist interpretation.In this interactive session (90 min), Dr. Celikates will address these questions,followed by moderated discussionbringing together philosophical, socialpsychological and activist perspectives.

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Last week's session on prefigurative politics in repressive settings (see quoted post below) is also available in our archive here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/archive.html, where you can find all recorded sessions in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series.

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Recordings, publications, and other archival material will be published here. Feb 9, 2025: Acting as if we were free - Prefigurative politic...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Did you miss the session on "Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts" with activists and researchers from Lebanon, Serbia and Turkey? Here's the recorded session, now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel: youtu.be/Q0S65MPOu8E

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Acting as if we were free: Prefigurative politics in repressive contexts

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, February 9: We do a Roundtable Session on Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts with activists from Lebanon and Serbia and researchers studying prefigurative movements. To register: tinyurly.com/prefigurative

A CT ING A S I F WE WERE FREE: PREF I G U R A T IVE
P O L I T ICS IN REPRESSIVE C ONTEXTS
Ps y c h o l ogy o f Re s i s t a n c e Vir t u a l M e e t i ng Se ri e s
This roundtable will bring together activists from Lebanon and Serbia who have engaged in some form of prefigurative politics, and researchers who have studied prefigurative movements in these two contexts and Turkey. All three contexts were or are marked with extensive use of police violence and other forms of severe repression. Researchers will present key insights from their studies on prefigurative movements. The roundtable will invite activists to reflect on what kinds of research, knowledge, or theoretical tools could best support their struggles, and will also give them the opportunity to respond directly to academic interpretations of their work.

TIJANA KARIĆ [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG]
CHADEN NOUEIHED HANI [ACTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LEBANON]
THIA SAGHERIAN-DICKEY [UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE]
YASEMIN GÜLSÜM ACAR [UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS]
JELENA BOŽIĆ [SVIĆE, SERBIA]
ORHAN KAYA [UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG]

MONDAY, FEB 9, 2026
9:00 San Francisco 11.00 Managua
12:00 New York 17.00 London 18:00
Belgrade 19.00 Beirut 20.00 Istanbul

REGISTER: TINYURL.COM/PREFIGURATIVE

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, January 12: We do a Read & Discuss (60 min) session with @denizyonucu.bsky.social on the memory past and current anticolonial resistance of Kurds and Turkish Alevis in Istanbul To register: tinyurl.com/AnticolonialResist

INSPIRATIONAL HAUNTINGS AND FEARLESS ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE

Deniz Yonucu
(Newcastle University)

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Monday, Jan 12, 2026

9.00 Vancouver, 12.00 New York, 17:00 London, 20.00 Istanbul

The history of the oppressed is marked not only by oppression but also by resistance. This talk explores what makes fearless resistance possible under colonialism through anthropological fieldwork with Kurds and Turkish Alevis. It draws on the experiences of the racialized Kurdish and Turkish Alevi residents of a working-class space in Istanbul that is constantly under the surveillance of undercover police agents. It argues that understanding the resistance of the colonised requires considering the "inspirational hauntings" of past resistance: how the memory of defiant subjects and historical oppression creates an invigorating force that transforms ethical questions about justice into active, undisguised resistance. The audience is invited to read Deniz's published article (https://tinyurl.com/dnzyncrsst) beforehand and to contribute to the discussion.

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, December 8: We do a Talk (15 mins) & Discussion (30 mins) session with Samaher Yehya on Palestine solidarity actions (morals, community, and diverse tactics) in the Netherlands To register: tinyurl.com/morals-comm

Title: Morals and community as influences on collective action in light of repression among young adults in the Netherlands: A mixed-methods investigation
Presenter: Samaher Yehya
The rich literature on collective actioninfluences has examined these factors inisolation. Thus, the question of how differentsocial, contextual, and individual factorsinteract to influence collective action remains,particularly under perceived or actualrepressive contexts. Similarly, the dichotomouscategorization of collective action tactics intonormative (non-confrontational) and nonnormative (confrontational) collective actionremains a significant limitation in ourunderstanding of how different tacticsinterrelate. This study implements a sequentialexploratory mixed-methods design among ayoung sample of individuals active in Palestinesolidarity actions in the Netherlands (a contextthat is not generally repressive butincreasingly more repressive on Palestineactivism) to assess how (1) morals and values,(2) opinion-based identity, (3) relationship withauthority figures, and (4) sense of communityinterplay and influence different forms ofcollective action. Study 1 was a qualitativeinvestigation, with interviews that showcasedhow community and morals counteractparticipation obstacles due to perceivedrepression. Study 2 implemented anexploratory factor analysis to evaluate thefactor structure of collective action tactics, andshowed that moral obligation, perceptions ofrisk, and negative relations with authoritiespredict disruptive and confrontationalcollective action, whereas anger only predictsdisruptive collective action. Perceived riskdeterred any form of participation. Findingshighlight the importance of community inmotivating and sustaining action, even in lightof perceived repression, and the need to gobeyond a binary understanding of collectiveaction tactics.

Time: Monday, Dec 8, 2025. 8.00 New York, 10.00 Santiago (Ch),15.00 Ramallah, 16.00 Istanbul, 18.30 NewDelhi, 21.00 Manila

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Did you miss the session on "Methods for psychological research on resistance and repression"? Do you want to recollect some of the content? Great! This was a (consent-based) recorded session, now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnHN...

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Methods for psychological research on resistance and repression

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Did you miss this stimulating session? Do you want to recollect some thoughts or discussions from the content? Great! This was a recorded session based on participants' consents and it is now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIQ...

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Rethinking Protest Tactics and Allyship in Contexts of Repression

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happening today! Still time to register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Happening next Monday! Remember to register to go beyond the conceptual binaries of protests as normative vs non-normative, conventional vs radical and to dig in why and how individuals shift protest tactics with Mete Sefa presenting, Yasemin & Carmen acting as reviewers. tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, November 10: We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests, @yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

CfP for the workshop ""From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance" (submission deadline: 5 November) The workshop will take place on March 25–26, 2026 at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. ikss.zrc-sazu.si/sites/defaul...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Happening tomorrow! Join the research bazaar and bring along your methodological interventions/stories to study diverse forms of resistance in different contexts of repression. To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This is an interactive "methods bazaar". Thus, you can also bring along your methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two (optional, not required for participation). Remember to register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, October 13: We start with an interactive workshop to diversify our methodological toolbox to better investigate forms of resistance and repression in different contexts. To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...

Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar
Interactive Workshop (90 mins)
Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coşkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt)
Monday, Oct 13, 2025
Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressed– in part because of the methodological limitations and rigidities in the field, in addition to practical and ethical considerations. For example, how does one examine covert resistance under conditions of surveillance and risk, how does one access forms of everyday resistance that may not be articulated as such, how does one conduct research on resistance that is under repression without creating further risk or harm to the participant and/or to the research team, how does one access information about resistance under extremely violent and most repressive conditions, such as genocide?
This session is an interactive methods workshop, a bazaar of ideas and research experience, where participants will share and swap knowledge about underutilized methods that have been or could be used to examine different forms of resistance (above all those forms of resistance that are understudied) in various contexts of violence and repression. The organizers will bring examples of a relevant, underutilized research method and share it with participants in a brief (5 min) blitz presentation. We also invite participants (optional, not required for participation) to bring along their methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two. We will also discuss more general, overarching questions related to methodological limitations in research on resistance and repression and ways to address these.
7.00 am NYC, 8.00 Santiago (Chile), 12 (noon) London, 13.00 Barcelona, 14.00 Ramallah & Istanbul, 16.30 New Delhi, 19.00 Manila, 21.00 Brisbane.
Registration link in the original post.

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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

The image contains the schedule of the planned events for the Psychology of Resistance Network. The schedule can be found online: https://resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html

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