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Why Taoiseach Varadkar is bad for equality in Ireland
When Larry Gordon, a member of the progressive Dublin Food Co Op recently told a niqab-wearing Muslim woman that she has no right to come to shop for organic produce at the Co Op and refused to apologise for his racist and Islamophobic outburst, a white Co Op member told me, after I intervened, that…
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Oxymorons and metaphors: Israel Studies from racialization to decolonization
A paper I presented at a workshop entitled ‘Decolonizing knowledge production: The case of Israel-Palestine’, London School of Economics, 6 June 2017, 50 years since Israel’s 1967 war against its Arab neighbours and since the occupation of the West Bank, Sinai, the Gaza Strip and the Golan. Introduction: Some thoughts about decolonizing Israel Studies Following…
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Archiving silence: Remarks on Vukasin Nedeljkovic’s Asylum Archive exhibition, NCAD 6 December 2016
I want to I present three interlinked propositions about Vukasín Nedeljković’s Asylum Archive exhibition. Firstly, just like Irish state and society had managed to ignore the workhouses, mental asylums, mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and industrial schools, they also ‘manage not to know’ about the plight of asylum seekers, precisely because direct provision isolates…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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