The next session in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series next Tuesday is a roundtable discussion with Steve Reicher and Sami Hermez on "Academic Boycott as a Resistance Tactic: Successes and Repression in the Past and Present". Registration link & more info in 🧵
The next session in the virtual meeting series on the Psychology of Resistance in Violent & Repressive Contexts is Tuesday, May 14: Dr. Siwar Hasan-Aslih will present "Understanding Collective Action and Resistance in Palestine: A Social Psychological Perspective". Registration and more info in 🧵
Official link to paper here: explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpss...www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Why protest when it is (seemingly) not working? We draw on social psychological theories, observations and organizing experience to reflect on why people keep protesting for Palestine despite repression and lack of tangible wins - arguing for an expanded notion of collective efficacy. Links in🧵
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The May 1 edition of our virtual meeting series will be a roundtable discussion on "Anticolonial Sense-Making of Kurdish Resistance and Power Beyond Social Psychology", with scholars of Kurdish resistance from different disciplines (see flyer). Registration link & more info in 🧵!
(rest of table of contents). Two chapters with good reviews of the literature on this backlash effect and their psychological mechanisms are in chapter 2 (by Arin Ayanian et al.) and chapter 4 (by Adra & Li). Contact us or the authors for preprints of the chapters! Book will be in print in August.
