Ronit Lentin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 108776 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronit Lentin |
| PRENOMES | Ronit |
| SOBRENOME | Lentin |
| ASSINATURA | LENTIN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-4166-4950 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Race and the Question of Palestine
This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine—like other imperial and settler colonial projects—cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question of Palestine explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system. Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholar…
The coloniality of citizenship
This article re-theorises the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, in first theorising ‘Ireland’ as a 32-counties occupied territory spread over two racial states, and as Britain's first colony. Second, the article theorises citizenship as a badge of social subjection and a measure of standing exclusively granted by racial states. Unpicking the meaning of citizenship, the article explores the impact of coloniality on the reconstruction of Irish citizensh…
Racial Regimes and White European Jewish Supremacy as Property
This article argues that the Zionist theft and expropriation of Palestinian land resulted in it being made into white property and that Zionism can be understood as a textbook case of Cedric Robinson's concept of racial regimes that explains how race is reproduced even though race is denied by the Zionist colonisers as justifying the relations of power. The article follows Cheryl Harris's and Noura Erakat's work on whiteness as property that, acc…
Fractured
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences that differ significantly from those of men. The (auto)biographical narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturb…
Spaces of Racialization
Since November 1999, people arriving in Ireland to seek asylum have been dispersed throughout the country and confined in Direct Provision (DP) accommodation centres. Though initially meant for a six-month stay, by May 2020 7,700 people were living in 85 DP and emergency accommodation centres, many of them for up to nine years. The centres are operated by for-profit private companies who have been paid 1.6 billion euros since 2000, and are mostly…
Migration and Racist State Violence
For a public sociology in Ireland – an outsider's view
Palestinian Lives Matter
Against the background of recent developments in Israel's racial rule over the Palestinians, the Black Lives Matter protests, and in view of Israel's declared intention to annex occupied Palestinian territories, this article theorises Israel's permanent war against the Palestinians as first, state of exception, second, racial state, and third, settler-colony. The paper critiques the focus on ethnicity as an analytical frame by Israeli scholars an…
Race and surveillance in the settler colony
This article begins by outlining a three-pronged critical theory of the state of Israel as, following Giorgio Agamben, a state of exception, following David Theo Goldberg, a racial state, and, following Patrick Wolfe, a settler colony. Elia Zureik’s work on the role of surveillance used by the state of Israel in controlling the Palestinians both in Israel proper and in the territory occupied by Israel in 1967 is then outlined. Since theories of e…
Traces of Racial Exception
Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine. Lentin argues that Israel’s rule over Palestine is an example of Agamben’s state of exception, Goldberg’s racial state and Wolfe’s settler colony; the Israeli racial set…
Palestine/Israel and State Criminality
This article critically engages with Israel's settler-colonial racial regime in Palestine as an Agambenian state of exception. The first part reiterates the author's argument that the Israeli state extends its laws to rule occupied and besieged Palestine while excluding itself and its Jewish citizen-colonists from legal instruments of oppression, occupation and siege. Positioning itself above and outside domestic and international law as far as P…
Transnational Feminist Solidarity in Times of Crisis
This review was published in International Feminist Journal of Politics [© 2015 Taylor & Francis] and the definite version is available at: https://www.google.com/search?q=10.1080%2F14616742.2015.1088226&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b The article website is at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1088226?needAccess=true
Asylum seekers, Ireland, and the return of the repressed
In 2014 residents in Direct Provision Centres for asylum seekers staged a series of protests. The protests, which coincided with the appointment of a new Minister for Justice who announced the Irish government’s plans to reform the asylum system, voiced three clear demands. Firstly, the protestors demanded that all asylum centres be closed; secondly, they demanded that all residents be given the right to remain and work in Ireland; and thirdly, t…
Migrant deportability
This article critiques policies of deportation and deportability - a technology emanating from three seemingly conflicting rationalities: states' obligations under international human rights regimes, capitalism's need to facilitate the movement of labour, and the need to reaffirm state sovereignty. After outlining the concept of deportability, we argue that although justified by state actors as an integral part of asylum and immigration policies,…
 There Is No Movementâ
Conclusion
A Woman Died
Introduction
In 1890, a 14-year-old boy called Kalman Solomon Lentin left a small Lithuanian Jewish shtetl (township). Between 1868 and 1914, pogroms, discrimination, antisemitism, poverty and the threat of conscription to the tsar’s army caused two million Lithuanian Jews to emigrate. Most found their way to America, others made for South Africa and Britain, and a small number ended up in Ireland. Kalman Lentin, my grandfather-in-law, was one of the latter. …
‘There Is No Movement’
Most of the migrant-led associations identified by the Migrant Networks Project reproduce discourses of integration and interculturalism and emphasize their role in enhancing migrants’ incorporation. Their aims, however, are much wider. Through a variety of activities and interests, these associations are rarely only ‘ethnic’ or ‘cultural’ and it is not possible to ascribe them to a single category or type. It is worth noting that, although many …
Conclusion
In 2008 the veteran journalist John Pilger reported on the plight of a group of British citizens from the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a British colony given to the USA as a military base, leading to the expulsion of more than 2000 people, the entire population of Chagos, to Mauritius. Since the year 2000, several high court judgements described the acts of the British government, banning the Chagossians f…
Turbans, hijabs and other differences
This article outlines the ease with which the Republic of Ireland had moved from publicly articulating Irish racism during the 1997 European Year Against Racism, to employing euphemisms such as interculturalism, transculturalism, integration and cultural diversity. In the rush to diversity, these euphemisms, employed unproblematically during the Irish economic boom, erase political terms such as ‘race’ and racism that state actors do not want to …
Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland
This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasi
Palestinian women from Femina Sacra to agents of active resistance
Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global
In this article we document the networking strategies of Ireland's leading migrant women's organization, AkiDwA - the African and Migrant Women's Network. We begin by positing networking as a process of agency and transformation and argue for the heuristic potential of 'network' in unpacking the gendered experiences of migration. Employing theoretical and ethnographic tools, we position AkiDwA as key to understanding how migrant women have been a…
Ireland
This article theorizes the state as central to the construction of racism in the Republic of Ireland, which, since the 1990s economic boom, has become an in-migration destination. State racism culminated in the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, in which, at a majority of four to one, the Irish electorate voted for the removal of birth-right citizenship to children of migrants. Based on Goldberg's theory of the racial state, which, in constructing homo…
Pregnant silence
In the wake of a new ruling on non-EU immigration into Ireland, Lentin makes a theoretical intervention by positing the gendering of Ireland's new migratory spaces via the bodies of asylum-seeking mothers. Employing David Theo Goldberg's concept of the ‘racial state’ and the two traditions of thinking about racial states, naturalism and historicism, she examines the gendered character of racial subjection and the rule of racial subjects in relati…
Strangers and strollers
Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland
This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasi
Responding to the Racialisation of Irishness
This article begins by discussing the specificities of racism in the Republic of Ireland. Critiquing multiculturalist and top-down antiracism policies, it argues that Irish multiculturalist initiatives are anchored in a liberal politics of recognition of difference, which do not depart from western cultural imperialism and are therefore inadequate for deconstructing inter-ethnic power relations. Multiculturalist approaches to antiracism result in…
Migrant deportability
This article critiques policies of deportation and deportability - a technology emanating from three seemingly conflicting rationalities: states' obligations under international human rights regimes, capitalism's need to facilitate the movement of labour, and the need to reaffirm state sovereignty. After outlining the concept of deportability, we argue that although justified by state actors as an integral part of asylum and immigration policies,…
Femina sacra
A Woman Died
Illegal in Ireland, Irish Illegals
This article examines the discursive political reformulation of Ireland as ‘diaspora nation’, which, while explaining the narrowing of citizenship entitlement of non‐citizen migrants resident in Ireland in the wake of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, paradoxically also makes sense of the juxtaposition of ‘entitled’ Irish illegals in the US with ‘unentitled’ illegal immigrants in Ireland. It uses social and political theory – Goldberg’s formulatio…
Asylum seekers, Ireland, and the return of the repressed
In 2014 residents in Direct Provision Centres for asylum seekers staged a series of protests. The protests, which coincided with the appointment of a new Minister for Justice who announced the Irish government’s plans to reform the asylum system, voiced three clear demands. Firstly, the protestors demanded that all asylum centres be closed; secondly, they demanded that all residents be given the right to remain and work in Ireland; and thirdly, t…
Palestinian women from Femina Sacra to agents of active resistance
Building a Platform for Our Voices to be Heard
Several migrant women's organisations have been set up in Ireland over the last decade. This article surveys three such groups: NOUR (Al Huda Women's Group), a Dublin independent Muslim women's group; WOMB (Women of Multi-Culture Balbriggan), a suburban multi-ethnic women's network; and AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network. In the second part of the article we focus in more depth on the evolution of the first two-NOUR and WOMB-both ver…
No Woman's Law Will Rot this State
This paper employs social theory and empirical observation, juxtaposing Israel as a 'racial state' (Goldberg, 2002) and the concept of femina sacra, a female version of Agamben's homo sacer or 'bare life' (Agamben, 1998), to think about some aspects of Israeli feminist peace activism since the onset of the second Intifada. Although Israeli feminist peace activism seems to discursively vacillate between essentialist motherhood narratives and subve…
A yiddishe mame desperately seeking a Mame Loshn
Turbans, hijabs and other differences
This article outlines the ease with which the Republic of Ireland had moved from publicly articulating Irish racism during the 1997 European Year Against Racism, to employing euphemisms such as interculturalism, transculturalism, integration and cultural diversity. In the rush to diversity, these euphemisms, employed unproblematically during the Irish economic boom, erase political terms such as ‘race’ and racism that state actors do not want to …
At the heart of the Hibernian post-metropolis
This article begins by positing some theoretical and methodological issues in relation to 'remapping' Dublin's changing ethnic landscape from the viewpoint of its racialized 'others'. 'Mapping' here is an attempt to chart imaginary moments--sketched by racialized members--of the city as human landscape, ever changing to accommodate and encapsulate their shifting spatial needs and desires. The article posits 'minority discourse' as a methodologica…
The Rape of the Nation
In this article I will firstly argue that genocide and wars are gendered but also often feminised via the positioning of women not only as sexual trophies exchangeable between male enemies, not only as markers of collective boundaries, but also as the symbolic representations of national and ethnic collectivities. I will then interrogate the centrality of rape as a component of ethno-sexual identities and an instrument of war, focusing on the dif…
Spaces of Racialization
Since November 1999, people arriving in Ireland to seek asylum have been dispersed throughout the country and confined in Direct Provision (DP) accommodation centres. Though initially meant for a six-month stay, by May 2020 7,700 people were living in 85 DP and emergency accommodation centres, many of them for up to nine years. The centres are operated by for-profit private companies who have been paid 1.6 billion euros since 2000, and are mostly…
Migration and Racist State Violence
Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global
In this article we document the networking strategies of Ireland's leading migrant women's organization, AkiDwA - the African and Migrant Women's Network. We begin by positing networking as a process of agency and transformation and argue for the heuristic potential of 'network' in unpacking the gendered experiences of migration. Employing theoretical and ethnographic tools, we position AkiDwA as key to understanding how migrant women have been a…
Expected to live
Israeli and Palestinian women working for peace
Although peace in the Middle East has been negotiated by military men, Israeli and Palestinian women have played a central, though unsung, role in the peace process since the 1967 war. like war, peace in the Middle East is gendered. A direct link exists between the Israeli‐Arab conflict and women's position in both societies, and between militarism and sexism. We must ask whether the current vision of peace, negotiated by military men, is what wo…
Feminist Research Methodologies — A Separate Paradigm? Notes for a Debate
This paper has three central components. One, it examines the basic tenets of feminist research methodologies — the commitment to making visible women's lived experiences, to gender and gender relations as socially constructed and historicially specific, to reflexivity and the inclusion of the researcher and the research process as researchable topics, and to the emancipation of women —and argues that they constitute feminist research methodologi…
Israeli and Palestinian women working for peace
Although peace in the Middle East has been negotiated by military men, Israeli and Palestinian women have played a central, though unsung, role in the peace process since the 1967 war. like war, peace in the Middle East is gendered. A direct link exists between the Israeli‐Arab conflict and women's position in both societies, and between militarism and sexism. We must ask whether the current vision of peace, negotiated by military men, is what wo…
A yiddishe mame desperately seeking a Mame Loshn
‘Irishness’, the 1937 Constitution, and Citizenship
This paper argues that ‘Irishness’ has not been sufficiently problematised in relation to gender and ethnicity in discussions of Irish national identity, nor has the term ‘Irish women’ been ethnically problematised. Sociological and feminist analyses of the access by women to citizenship of the Republic of Ireland have been similarly unproblematised. This paper interrogates some discourses of Irish national identity, including the 1937 Constituti…
The Rape of the Nation
In this article I will firstly argue that genocide and wars are gendered but also often feminised via the positioning of women not only as sexual trophies exchangeable between male enemies, not only as markers of collective boundaries, but also as the symbolic representations of national and ethnic collectivities. I will then interrogate the centrality of rape as a component of ethno-sexual identities and an instrument of war, focusing on the dif…
Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah
The murder of a third of Europe's Jews by the Nazis is unquestionably the worst catastrophe in the history of contemporary Judaism and a formative event in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Understandably, therefore, the Shoah, written about, analyzed, and given various political interpretations, has shaped public discourse in the history of the State of Israel. The key element of Shoah in the Israeli context is victimhood and as su…
Expected to live
Double Jeopardy
Responding to the Racialisation of Irishness
This article begins by discussing the specificities of racism in the Republic of Ireland. Critiquing multiculturalist and top-down antiracism policies, it argues that Irish multiculturalist initiatives are anchored in a liberal politics of recognition of difference, which do not depart from western cultural imperialism and are therefore inadequate for deconstructing inter-ethnic power relations. Multiculturalist approaches to antiracism result in…
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences that differ significantly from those of men. The (auto)biographical narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturb…
At the heart of the Hibernian post-metropolis
This article begins by positing some theoretical and methodological issues in relation to 'remapping' Dublin's changing ethnic landscape from the viewpoint of its racialized 'others'. 'Mapping' here is an attempt to chart imaginary moments--sketched by racialized members--of the city as human landscape, ever changing to accommodate and encapsulate their shifting spatial needs and desires. The article posits 'minority discourse' as a methodologica…
Pregnant silence
In the wake of a new ruling on non-EU immigration into Ireland, Lentin makes a theoretical intervention by positing the gendering of Ireland's new migratory spaces via the bodies of asylum-seeking mothers. Employing David Theo Goldberg's concept of the ‘racial state’ and the two traditions of thinking about racial states, naturalism and historicism, she examines the gendered character of racial subjection and the rule of racial subjects in relati…
Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century
Re-Presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century
Despite Adorno's famous dictum, the memory of the Shoah features prominently in the cultural legacy of the 20th century and beyond. It has led to a proliferation of works of representation and re-memorialization which have brought in their wake concerns about a 'holocaust industry' and banalization. This volume sheds fresh light on some of the issues, such as the question of silence and denial, of the formation of contemporary identities — German…
Strangers and strollers
No Woman's Law Will Rot this State
This paper employs social theory and empirical observation, juxtaposing Israel as a 'racial state' (Goldberg, 2002) and the concept of femina sacra, a female version of Agamben's homo sacer or 'bare life' (Agamben, 1998), to think about some aspects of Israeli feminist peace activism since the onset of the second Intifada. Although Israeli feminist peace activism seems to discursively vacillate between essentialist motherhood narratives and subve…
Femina sacra
Illegal in Ireland, Irish Illegals
This article examines the discursive political reformulation of Ireland as ‘diaspora nation’, which, while explaining the narrowing of citizenship entitlement of non‐citizen migrants resident in Ireland in the wake of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, paradoxically also makes sense of the juxtaposition of ‘entitled’ Irish illegals in the US with ‘unentitled’ illegal immigrants in Ireland. It uses social and political theory – Goldberg’s formulatio…
Ireland
This article theorizes the state as central to the construction of racism in the Republic of Ireland, which, since the 1990s economic boom, has become an in-migration destination. State racism culminated in the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, in which, at a majority of four to one, the Irish electorate voted for the removal of birth-right citizenship to children of migrants. Based on Goldberg's theory of the racial state, which, in constructing homo…
Introduction
Thinking Palestine
This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who theorise'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to supporting the Palestinian quest for self determination, they present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These include the'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the tourist/activist gaz…
Memories for the Future
Memory studies represent one of the latest `turns' in the social sciences since the 1980s, following the linguistic, narrative and cultural turns. Memory of catastrophe has become not merely a currency of our liquid modernity's `confessional culture', it is also becoming an increasingly valid social sciences theme, no longer the exclusive realm of historians and psychologists. The insight that traumatic memories take up to one generation to surfa…
Co-Memory and Melancholia
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society, when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their ‘War of Independence’ and the Palestinians their ‘Nakba’, or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the …
Palestinian women from Femina Sacra to agents of active resistance
Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global
In this article we document the networking strategies of Ireland's leading migrant women's organization, AkiDwA - the African and Migrant Women's Network. We begin by positing networking as a process of agency and transformation and argue for the heuristic potential of 'network' in unpacking the gendered experiences of migration. Employing theoretical and ethnographic tools, we position AkiDwA as key to understanding how migrant women have been a…
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