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Writing is the Closing of Circles: Nava Semel
‘WRITING IS THE CLOSING OF CIRCLES’: NAVA SEMEL From R. Lentin, Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Re-occupying the Territories of Silence, (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000) Introduction I met the late Nava Semel on November 25, 1992 in the apartment she shared with her husband Noam Semel, director of the Tel Aviv Cameri Theatre,…
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Time to close the Direct Provision system
On Saturday 18 November a rally organised by United against Racism heard moving speeches by several asylum seekers living the Direct Provision for-profit incarceration system where men, women and children are held often for up to ten years. The Irish Times reported Mavis who has lived in Direct Provision with her three children for fifteen…
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Incarceration, disavowal and Ireland’s prison industrial complex
Incarceration, disavowal and Ireland’s prison industrial complex Paper presented at the ‘Irish Prisons: incarceration, repression and control’ conference, Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast 26-27 October 2017. Introduction In September 2014 residents of several asylum centres in Ireland staged protests against their incarceration. Since April 2000 asylum seekers have been dispersed to ‘Direct Provision’ centres, managed by…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.