Ronit Lentin


Ronit Lentin is an IsraeliIrish political sociologist, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction books.

Life

Lentin was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, in 1944: she has lived in Ireland since 1969. A political sociologist, she was an associate professor of sociology at Trinity College, Dublin until her retirement in 2014. From 1997 until 2012 Lentin was the director of the MPhil 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 and genocide and the Holocaust.
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. 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, and on gender violence and feminism.

Books and publications

  • Interviews: Conversations with Palestinian Women
  • Tea with Mrs. Klein in Triad: Modern Irish Fiction
  • Night Train to Mother
  • Songs on the Death of Children
  • Editor
  • searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland co-editor, with Anne Byrne.
  • co-editor, with Robbie McVeigh,
  • Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation co-editor, with Nahla Abdo.
  • co-editor, with Eithne Luibhéid.
  • , editor.
  • After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation with Robbie McVeigh.
  • Race and State co-editor, with Alana Lentin.
  • Performing Global Networks co-editor, with Karen Fricker
  • Thinking Palestine editor
  • Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba co-editor, with Elena MoreoTraces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
  • 'Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, co-editor with David Landy and Conor McCarthy
  • 'Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland's Asylum Industrial Complex, with Vukasin Nedljkovic
  • 'Racial Regimes and White European Jewish Supremacy as Property', Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 23, 221-237