Ronit Lentin
| Ronit Lentin | |
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| Born |
25 October 1944 Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Occupation | Political sociologist, Writer |
| Nationality | Isreali-Irish |
| Spouse | Louis Lentin |
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Ronit Lentin (Hebrew: רונית לנטין ;25 October 1944) is an Israeli-Irish Jewish[1] political sociologist and a writer of fiction and non-fiction books.
Life
She was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine in 1944, she has lived in Ireland since 1969. A political sociologist she is an Associate Professor of Sociology from Trinity College Dublin. From 1997 until 2012 Lentin was Head of Sociology, the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department of Sociology and founder member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity College, Dublin.[2] Lentin has published extensively on racism and immigration in Ireland, Israel and Palestine and on gender and genocide and the Holocaust.
Research fields
Racism and immigration in Ireland; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; gender and genocide / violence; feminism.
Books and publications
- Interviews: Conversations with Palestinian Women (Jerusalem: Mifras 1982)
- Night Train to Mother (Dublin: Attic Press 1989) ISBN 0-946211-72-8
- 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) ISBN 1-57181-774-3
- Gender and Catastrophe(London: Zed Books 1997)Editor ISBN 1-85649-445-4
- (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland (Dulbin: IPA 2000) co-editor, with Anne Byrne.
- Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2002) co-editor, with Robbie McVeigh, ISBN 1-900960-16-8
- 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. ISBN 1-57181-498-1
- 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.ISBN 1-57181-802-2
- After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (Dublin: Metroeireann Publications. 2006) with Robbie McVeigh. ISBN 0-9553385-0-6
- Race and State (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006) co-editor, with Alana Lentin. ISBN 1-84718-001-9
- Performing Global Networks (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) co-editor, with Karen Fricker
- 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) Palgrwve-Macmillan, 2013) co-editor, with Elena Moreo,
References
- ↑ "Israel's war against the Palestinians, and Palestinian right of resistance". Ronit Lentin. Dublin. 9 October 2015.
- ↑ "Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice Research Fellows". Trinity College. Dublin.
External links
- Ronit Lentin at the Internet Movie Database
- Dr Ronit Lentin on Sociological Research Online
- Mphil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Trinity College, Dublin Department of Sociology - University of Dublin