Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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Notes on Racial Capitalism and Palestine: Land, Labour and Jewishness as Property
CONTINUE READING: Notes on Racial Capitalism and Palestine: Land, Labour and Jewishness as PropertyHaider Eid and Andy Clarno’s (2017) analyze Zionist apartheid as both a racialized and an economic regime; racial capitalism is central to understanding race and the question of Palestine relating to questions of land, labour and resources. Charisse Burden-Stelly (2020) theorizes US racial capitalism as “a racially hierarchical political economy constituting war and militarism, imperialist…
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Sandwith Street: ‘Whiteness riots’ and ‘local’ white communities
CONTINUE READING: Sandwith Street: ‘Whiteness riots’ and ‘local’ white communitiesThe violent events in Dublin’s city centre on Friday 12 May 2023 when groups of Dublin based people set upon five hundred plus asylum seekers, forced to live in tents outside the International Protection Office in Sandwith Street, setting their belongings on fire and shouting racist abuse at them were very troubling indeed. Lawyer and…
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Spaces of Racialization: Ireland’s Direct Provision Asylum Centres as Sites of Racialized State Violence
CONTINUE READING: Spaces of Racialization: Ireland’s Direct Provision Asylum Centres as Sites of Racialized State ViolenceOct 18, 2022, London The Republic of Ireland has a poor record in its response to refugee crises ever since the Nazi era, when only 60 Jewish refugees were admitted by neutral Ireland between 1933 and 1946. Although several groups of ‘programme refugees’ were admitted over the years, when asylum seekers began arriving in the…
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Ulysses, race and the new Bloomusalem
CONTINUE READING: Ulysses, race and the new BloomusalemPaper presented at the Global Ulysses seminar, 14 June 2022 One of the Hebrew language books I took from my parents’ Haifa home when I came to Ireland with my late partner Louis Lentin was מלחמת האירים לעצמאותם –The Irish War for their Independence written by a Jewish emigrant from Ireland, one Efraim Schwartzman, who…
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Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex
CONTINUE READING: Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial ComplexRonit Lentin and Vukasin Nedeljkovic Disavowing Asylum presents the for-profit Direct Provision asylum regime in the Republic of Ireland, describing and theorizing the remote asylum centres throughout the country as a disavowed regime of racialized incarceration, operated by private companies and hidden from public view. The authors combine a historical and geographical analysis of Direct…
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Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland – ebook
CONTINUE READING: Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland – ebookOur 2002 book Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland (Ronit Lentin and Robbie McVeigh eds.) has been re-published as an ebook with a new 21 page introduction. Beyond the Pale Books 2 Hannahstown Hill Belfast BT17 0LT Email: info@beyondthepalebooks.com
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For a public sociology in Ireland – an outsider’s view
CONTINUE READING: For a public sociology in Ireland – an outsider’s viewIrish Journal of Sociology, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1177/07916035211027080 The role of the intellectual is not to consolidate authority, but to understand, interpret, and question it… Indeed, the intellectual vocation essentially is somehow to alleviate human suffering and not to celebrate what in effect does not need celebrating, whether that’s the state or the patria or any of…
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Nahla Abdo reviews Traces of Racial Exception
CONTINUE READING: Nahla Abdo reviews Traces of Racial ExceptionTraces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism by Ronit Lentin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 224 pages. $84.00 cloth, $27.96 paper, $21.57 e-book. Nahla Abdo Published online: 25 Jan 2021 Journal of Palestine Studies, January 2021 Location and methodology are crucial to understanding Ronit Lentin’s latest book, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism,…
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Two cemetries: Waking from my Zionist dream
CONTINUE READING: Two cemetries: Waking from my Zionist dreamThe photographs of two cemeteries come to mind as I think about my journey away from my former Zionist self. In the first photograph I am a skinny five years old, holding my beautiful blond mother’s hand as we are paying our respects at the funeral of Theodore Herzl, the so called founding father of…