Ronit Lentin (; born 25 October 1944) is an Israeli/Irish

political sociologist Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

and a writer of fiction and non-fiction books.

Life

Lentin was born in

Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After ...

, in 1944: she has lived in Ireland since 1969. A political sociologist, she was an associate professor of sociology at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

until her retirement in 2014. From 1997 until 2012 Lentin was the director of the

MPhil A Master of Philosophy (MPhil or PhM; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. The name of the degree is most often abbreviated MPhil (or, at times, as PhM in other countries). MPhil are awarded to postgraduate students after completing at least ...

in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department of Sociology. She was head of the Department of Sociology and a founder member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity College, Dublin. Lentin has published extensively on Palestine and Israel, racism and immigration in Ireland, and on

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and

genocide Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

and the

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

. Lentin has advocated an open-door immigration policy for Ireland and opposes all deportations. Lentin is an activist for Palestinian liberation and for the

Palestinian right of return The Palestinian right of return is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both Immigrant generations#First generation, first-generation refugees ( people still alive ) and their descendants ( people ), have a right to ...

. She supports a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; "one democratic state in historic Palestine where Palestinians, Jews and migrants live in full equality".

Research

Lentin has researched on racism and immigration in Ireland, on race in Israel and

Palestine Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by International recognition of Palestine, 147 of the UN's 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and th ...

, and on gender violence and

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

Books and publications

*''Interviews: Conversations with Palestinian Women'' (Jerusalem: Mifras 1982) *''Tea with Mrs. Klein'' in Triad: Modern Irish Fiction (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1986) *''Night Train to Mother'' (Dublin: Attic Press 1989) *''Songs on the Death of Children'' (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1996)
''Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence''
(Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books 2000)
''Gender and Catastrophe''
London: Zed Books 1997)Editor *''(Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland'' (Dublin: IPA 2000) co-editor, with Anne Byrne.
''Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland''
(Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2002) co-editor, with Robbie McVeigh, *''Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation'' (Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books 2002) co-editor, with Nahla Abdo.
''Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland''
2003) co-editor, with Eithne Luibhéid.
''Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century''
Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books. 2004), editor. *''After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation'' (Dublin: Metroeireann Publications. 2006) with Robbie McVeigh. *''Race and State'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006) co-editor, with Alana Lentin. *''Performing Global Networks'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) co-editor, with

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*''Thinking Palestine'' (London: Zed Books, 2008) editor *''Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010, paperback 2014 *''Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland'' ( Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013) co-editor, with Elena Moreo * ''Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism'' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) * 'Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (Zed Books, 2020), co-editor with David Landy and Conor McCarthy * 'Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland's Asylum Industrial Complex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), with Vukasin Nedljkovic * 'Racial Regimes and White European Jewish Supremacy as Property', ''Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies'', 23 (2024), 221-237

References

External links

Ireland: A Racist State? Interview with Ronit Lentin
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