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David Clarke

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Social psychology PhD student. Exploring prefigurative politics - social identity/empowerment processes. @SussexUni

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · Jan 14

Excited to share my first paper, published in #JCASP🎉 (open access).

With @profjohndrury.bsky.social, we engage with the rise of prefigurative politics - movements that embody desired societal change in their present practices (1/3)

Emergent Prefigurative Politics and Social Psychological Processes: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Prefigurative politics—the enactment of desired future social relations in present social change practices—has become central in contemporary political organising. Protest movements like the Arab Spr....

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Sep 5

Crowds & Identities and friends gather to wish a temporary farewell to @daclarkecruz.bsky.social at Eat Central, @sussex.ac.uk

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Political psychology exists to expose dehumanisation, moral disengagement, and complicity in oppression. #ISPP’s leadership enacts them. A society that will not call genocide by its name has abandoned its foundations. Sign the petition 👇

Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine

Esteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...

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Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough.

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Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine

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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · Sep 3

A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

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Yasemin Gülsüm Acar @yasemingacar.bsky.social · Aug 26

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · Aug 25

ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · Aug 26

When “political” psychology hides in lab-coat abstractions while a people are massacred and starved, it’s not just irrelevant but complicit. (2/2)

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians.

‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region.

Shame on the signatories.

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · Aug 25

ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 10

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

Anas Al-Sharif pictured with his two young children that he is holding. They are all smiling.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 22

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 22

Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live

Deputy PM urges government to acknowledge people ‘real concerns’ and flagged deprivation where worst riots erupted last summer An attempt by three former MPs to force the UK government to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote and other recent elections has failed at the European court of human rights. The Strasbourg court ruled on Tuesday that countries had a “wide margin” in determining how to tackle attempts at electoral interference, and ruled against a case brought by Ben Bradshaw, Caroline Lucas and Alyn Smith. Continue reading...

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Monica Barnard @monicabarnard.bsky.social · Jul 8

Vegans! Please consider participating in our online study on communicating about veganism 🌱 prize draw £25 voucher

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Elif Sandal Önal @elifsandal.bsky.social · Jul 8

New publication alert!
Our latest article is now published in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🎉
“Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti-Right-Wing Protests in Germany”
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Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti‐Right‐Wing Protests in Germany

In the early 2024, over three million people in Germany took to the streets to protest a secret plan by right-wing extremists to deport individuals with migration background, publicised as ‘re-migrat...

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Mete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · Jul 2

Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jun 30

@drselintekin.bsky.social @adriennewhitworth.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social

John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jun 30

The last Crowds & Identities meeting of the academic year, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, and with presentation on his important work from @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social on lay crowd theory in US debates on #BLM

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · Jun 27

A vital blog exposes how “visa walls” quietly shape who gets heard at academic conferences. As the authors argue, “we must design our spaces to reflect the diversity of the world we hope to sustain.” Change begins with confronting what keeps people out, not through empty promises to include them.

Sustainability talks and visa walls: reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard - Energy Demand Research Centre

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 26

1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than "noises off". Now, as the disaster materialises, he's desperately backtracking.
Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jun 26

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity for someone -- please share.

Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC)

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Psychology Doctoral Research Studentship – Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC) : University of Sussex

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · Jun 23

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism.

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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

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lucygobag.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Grenfell: Uncovered review – heartwrenching account of avoidable tragedy

Bleak, enraging documentary combines firsthand accounts of the disaster with appalling record of official negligence

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · Jun 22

The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it

Headline from NYT: U.S. Military Is Pulled Back Into Middle East Wars

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 15

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

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Selin Tekin @drselintekin.bsky.social · Jun 14

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the #GrenfellTower fire.
At 6:00pm, #Grenfellcommunity members are holding a #SilentWalk starting from Notting Hill Methodist Church. All supporters are invited.

During my PhD research, I and @profjohndrury.bsky.social
conducted ethnographic fieldwork ++

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jun 13

Just about to put these two @crowdsidentities.bsky.social systematic reviews on the School display board - @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · Jun 9

‘What if this wasn’t the only boat? What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?’

Gaza flotilla: The Madleen shows us the world as it could be

What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?

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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Not sure this is the read. Musk is so deep in the rabbit hole of illegal aliens/woke Marxist globalism that the protests probably remind him that he cares more about his “cultural” alignment with Trump than his disagreement with the new bill – to the point he can put his ego to the side.