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| Name | Lentin, Ronit | |
| Main Department | Sociology | |
| College Title | Associate Professor Part-Time | |
| rlentin@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 2702 | |
| Web | http://www.ronitlentin.net | |
| Biography | |
| I was born in Haifa and have lived in Ireland since 1969. Prior to completing an MPhil in Women's Studies (1991) and a PhD in Sociology in TCD (1997), I worked as a journalist and writer. Between 2009 and 2012 I was the head of department. In 1997 I established the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict (formerly the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies) and until 2012 acted as course coordinator. I was coordinator of the Global Networks project in the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), and founder member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, where I focused on migrant-led activism. My research and teaching interests include race critical theory, Israel-Palestine, racism in Ireland, gender and genocide, migrant activism. My latest books include After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006/8), Performing Global Networks (with Karen Fricker, 2007), Thinking Palestine (2008), Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (2010) and Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland (with Elena Moreo, 2012). I have supervised PhDs on race and identity, African Pentacostalism, Bosnian refugee transnationalism, Turkish religious networks, Israel-critical social movements, second generation Palestinian Nakba memorialisation, Protestant churches and migrants in Ireland and Italy, and middle class racism. | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Member, Advisory Board, AkiDwA: African Women's Network | 2006-date |
| Chair, Coalition against Deportation of Irish Children (CADIC) | 2003-4 |
| Member judging panel: Metro Eireann Multicultural Awards | 2002-4 |
| Member, executive board, Irish Council for Civil Liberties | 2003-5 |
| Member - Anti Deportation Ireland | 2012 - date |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Board member, Zena - Bosnian Women Accessing Education | 1998 | 2000 |
| Member, Advisory group, Higher Education Equality Unit: Ethnic Minorities in Education | 1998 | 2001 |
| Member, women's sub-committee, National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI) | 1998 | 2003 |
| Sociological Association of Ireland | 1993 | date |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Arts and Social Science Benefaction Fund, TCD | 1999-2000 |
| Provost Academic Development Fund , TCD | 2001 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| French | Fluent | Medium | Fluent |
| German | Medium | Basic | Medium |
| Hebrew | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Description of Research Interests |
| I specialise in researching race and racism, with particular emphasis on race critical theory, racism, Israel/Palestine, gender and genocide, women and war, the sociology of the Holocaust, racism and anti-racism in Ireland, and migrant activism. I am specifically interested in the discursive representation of the 'other' by 'racial states'. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Conflict | Contemporary social theory | European minority cultures and identities | Immigration |
| Israel-Palestine | Migration | Multiculturalism | Networks |
| Race and ethnic studies |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | PI - MIGRANT NETWORKS - FACILITATING MIGRANT INTEGRATION |
| Summary | The study builds on ongoing research and focuses on four key network activities, Ireland’s new religious networks; new migrant media; cultural migrant networks; and migrant advocacy networks. Conducted by a multidisciplinary team, the study uses qualitative ethnographies to map the networking activities by migrants in contemporary Ireland. |
| Funding Agency | Trinity Immigration Initiative |
| Programme | TII research programme |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | October 2007 |
| Date to | September 2010 |
| Person Months | 48 |
| Project title | PI - Transnational gendered diasporic networks, |
| Summary | This project, which built on my previous study of representations of migrant women, posited new theorisations of migrant women networks as alternative narratives of globalisation. Ethnographic field research with transnational networks of migrant women combined with global network theory to ask new questions on migrant agency in the context of ‘intercultural Ireland’. In December 2005 I organised the ‘Alternative narratives of globalisation? New theorisations of migrant women’s global networks’ conference at the IIIS and have edited a collection of conference papers (www.tcd.ie/iiis/pages/publications/discussionpapers/IIIS.php). |
| Funding Agency | HEA / PRTLI |
| Programme | Global Networks |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1 October 2004 |
| Date to | 30 September 2007 |
| Person Months | 36 |
| Project title | PI - Israeli-Palestinian memory practices |
| Summary | This study builds on my earlier work on Israel Palestine, including the co-edited collection with Prof Nahla Abdo (2002), the special journal issue of Race Traitor on the one-state solution (2005), the edited collection Thinking Palestine (2008)and the monograph Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (2010). |
| Funding Agency | Institute of International Integration Studies |
| Programme | Global Networks |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | October 2004 |
| Date to | ongoing |
| Person Months | 30 |
| Project title | Testimonies of Transnistria |
| Summary | This ongoing project analyses sociologically the gendered nature of testimonies of women from Bukovina, Romania, who survived Transnistria. I received IR1,500 from the Provost Academic Fund to assist in travelling and have published several articled and book chapters. |
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| Date from | 2001-2005 |
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| Publications and Other Research Outputs |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin, Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, 2, Oxford and New York, Berghahn Books, 2002, 1 - 324pp | |
| Ronit Lentin, Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence, 1, Oxford and New York, Berghahn Books, 2000, xi - 256pp | |
| Ann Byrne and Ronit Lentin, (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodology in the Social Sciences in Ireland, 1, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2000, 1 - 264pp | |
| Ronit Lentin, Gender and Catastrophe, 1, London, Zed Books, 1997, 1 - 282pp |
| Non Peer Reviewed | |
| Ronit Lentin and Robbie McVeigh, Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland, 1, Belfast, Beyond the Pale, 2002, 248pp | |
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