Ronit Lentin ( he, רונית לנטין; 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 ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the 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 metropol ...

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

, 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 Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures ...

and

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lat ...

and the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. 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 fields

Racism and immigration in Ireland; Israeli–Palestinian conflict; gender and genocide / violence;

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

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

References

External links

Ireland: A Racist State? Interview with Ronit Lentin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lentin, Ronit Living people Irish Jews Irish sociologists Immigrants to Ireland Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Israeli Jews Israeli sociologists People from Haifa 1944 births 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people Political sociologists Jewish feminists Israeli feminists Women political scientists