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Next E-Agora meeting: Tuesday the 17th of March 2026

Topic: Exploring Affective Argumentation in Populist Political Discourses

Helenor Tormis, University of Helsinki, Finland

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Research has shown that speakers opposing political demonstrations can pathologize protesters campaigning against racial prejudice in order to justify racialized police profiling and brutality. This ....

New BJSP paper with @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social and Mirko Demasi:
"The overlap of anti-Black and anti-protest rhetoric: How far-right political commentators preserve anti-Black racist stereotypes in the context of #BLM debates"
Open access here
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New Episode 🚨
If racism is meant to be in retreat in Britain, why does it feel harder than ever to ignore? @zoegrunewald.bsky.social is joined by Rahul Sambaraju and @drsimongoodman.bsky.social to ask: is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK?

Listen everywhere: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Our* special issue on economic inequality is available in Qualitative Research in Psychology! Thank you to our contributors

www.tandfonline.com/toc/uqrp20/2...

* @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social Jackie Abell and Mirko Demasi

@ree-uwe.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

The @euroqualpsy.bsky.social online research seminar is happening today! 4pm UK; 5pm CET; 6pm EET
@wiam.bsky.social will be presenting " How can we visually share findings from our qualitative analyses?"
Details here: www.equipsy.org/agor%C3%A1/2...
Link to join on teams here: tinyurl.com/vavhzn3w

Is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK? Anti-migrant protests are helping challenge ideas about the acceptability of prejudice.

New @theconversation.com article, by me and Rahul Sambaraju theconversation.com/is-racism-be...

This is happening this afternoon (Tuesday 16th!) and should be a great talk. Join if you can!
(And UK people, note this is at 4pm)

Exploring how entertainment documentaries construct London to account for the residence of the international super-rich in the “hostile environment” for migrants Unlike poorer migrant groups, governments offer visa inducements to attract wealthy individuals into a country. However, super-rich migrants’ impact on the UK has been shown to be negative. This re...

New article with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @adamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell on how the international super rich are constructed as migrants in entertainment documentaries

Open access too!

@ree-uwe.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How were they?
You've achieved a good chip shape there!

Struggling with the silence | BPS The Leicester Chapter of the Psychologists for Social Change meet unfolding horrors with 'anger brewing'…

The Psychologists for Social Change in the @psychmag.bsky.social
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Headline from the Mirror newspaper reads "refugee and migrant groups join with hundreds to warn again 'politics of division'

When irresponsible politicians try to divide our communities, what do we do? We speak up, we stand together, we stay strong.

We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Leicester Psychologists for Social Change statement in solidarity with student activists arrested for peacefully protesting against atrocities in Palestine

www.psychchange.org/leicester.html

🥳 New blog post from our own, Dr Simon Goodman (@drsimongoodman.bsky.social)

⌨️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...

We've got a blog on media representations of wealth inequality and economic growth 📈

Thanks to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social for including us in their good growth hub!

@ree-uwe.bsky.social @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social

vol 4.1 online editorial team & publication information contributors' notes acknowledgements foreword by John Vincent

New edition of The Other Side of Hope, out now here:
othersideofhope.com/vol-41-onlin...
@othersidelitmag.bsky.social

ARCP 19: For Palestine, online resources (2025) Curated by Ian Parker This issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology comprises academic articles that address the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people carried out by the settler-colo…

This looks great!
discourseunit.com/arcp-19-for-...

So pumped that this @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social volume THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MIGRANT IDENTITIES is finally in my hands !! Thanks to the editors @proftaylor.bsky.social, @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dumore and reviewers. Thanks to my fab coauthor @elenainlimbo.bsky.social #discourse

Khalissee on X: "THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW" / X THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW

Here's the documentary about Palestinian suffering that the BBC took down 🍉
x.com/kahlissee/st...

Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out Concepts like vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury do important work in making suffering legible and enabling claims to recognition, acknowledgement, and care. Nonetheless,...

This is a great compass paper (open access) on working with refugees
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore

Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4

Remove Coventry University vice-chancellor from government role Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...

speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/remove-coven...

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It's QMiP's 20th anniversary this year and we'll be celebrating at the conference! There'll also be fab keynotes: @ginnybraun.bsky.social @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social and Paul Flowers

Submit your abstracts and join us! Deadline 28th March

www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...

#qualitative #research

Actors for Human Rights (AFHR) returns to DMU on 25 February at Trinity House with events co-organised by Politics & IR, Law School, SDG Impact Hub, and DMU Pride. Highlights include Tales from the Hostile Environment (14:00-15:45), a play with Q&A on immigration policies

@dmuleicester.bsky.social

Statistically Nazi salutes are more commonly a symptom of Nazism than autism.

I've not, so thanks for the tip! :)

My latest #socialpsychology paper, available open access

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

New follower alert! @drsimongoodman.bsky.social
Find him in our archive here www.bps.org.uk/search?term=...

Three guesses why I finally switched to Bluesky