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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…
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Nahla Abdo reviews Traces of Racial Exception
Traces 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
The 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…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.