Ronit Lentin

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Dr Ronit Lentin
Born Haifa
Occupation Political sociologist, Writer

Dr Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and has lived in Ireland since 1969. She is a political sociologist and a well known writer of fiction and non-fiction books and is the director of the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Global Networks project, Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, Dublin.

Ronit has published extensively on racism in Ireland, Israel and Palestine, gender and genocide, and gender and the Holocaust.

[edit] Research

(Im)migration and racism in Ireland; Israel-Palestine; gender and genocide / violence; feminist research.

[edit] Books & Publications

  • Conversations with Palestinian Women (Jerusalem: Mifras 1982)
  • Songs on the Death of Children (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1996)
  • (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland (Dulbin: IPA 2000) co-editor, with Anne Byrne.
  • 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
  • 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) editor, with Alana Lentin. ISBN 1-84718-001-9
  • Performing Global Networks (forthcoming 2007) editor, with Karen Fricker
  • Thinking Palestine (forthcoming 2008) editor

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