• Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex

    Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex

    Ronit 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…

  • Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland – ebook

    Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland – ebook

    Our 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

  • For a public sociology in Ireland – an outsider’s view

    Irish 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…