| Post: | Senior Lecturer in Sociology |
| Other posts: | Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Cst) |
| Lecturer in Sociology (Migration) | |
| Location: | Friston Building FR-260 |
| Email: | A.Lentin@sussex.ac.uk |
| Personal homepage | |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 3470 or 8890 |
| UK: | (01273) 873470 or (01273) 678890 |
| International: | +44 1273 873470 or +44 1273 678890 |
Biography
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I am a political sociologist and social theorist. I work on the critical theorisation of race, racism and anti-racism and have done extensive research into the contemporary politics of (im)migration and collective action for migrants' rights. I am currently focusing on the perceived crisis of multiculturalism both in Europe and in a global perspective with a special focus on interconnections between Europe and India. My first book published in 2004 is entitled Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2004). I have also co-edited Race and State with Ronit Lentin (Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2006), the paperback edition of which was published in September 2008. My latest book, an accessible insight into my approach to racism, Racism: A beginner's guide, is published by OneWorld in 2008. The Politics of Diversity in Europe, co-edited with Gavan Titley of the National University of Ireland, is published by the Council of Europe in 2008. Together with Gavan Titley, I have been commissioned by Zed Books to write The Crisis of Multiculturalism? In addition, I publish regularly in European Journal Social Theory and Patterns of Prejudice among other journals. I am also a regular contributor to OpenDemocracy.Net. If you are interested in looking at some of my writings, my blog or my views on teaching, they can be accessed via my personal website. I am an editorial board member of the European Journal of Social Theory. For more details click here. |
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Role
I am a Senior Lecturer Sociology within the department's research group on Social Theory and Political Sociology.
I am a core faculty member of the Centre for Social and Political Thought as well as being the Centre's webmaster. I am also a member of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research.
I am the e-learning 'champion' for the School of Social and Cultural Studies and head up SyD for SocCul, funded by the Fund for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (FELT). If you would like to be involved in e-learning in SOCCUL, please contact me.
Please note that I will be on maternity leave from mid November to mid March 2009-10 and on study leave at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin) and the IRIS, Ecoles des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris) in the Summer Term.
Research
I work at the interstices of political sociology and social theory and am interested in race critical theory, decolonial thought and the politics of multiculturalism and 'diversity'. I have worked extensively on anti-racism and collective action for migrants' rights, as well as on the theorization of the links between universalist human rights and racism.
CURRENT PROJECTS
I am currently working on a book, together with Gavan Titley (National University of Maynooth), entitled The Crisis of Multiculturalism? (Zed Books) which examines the notion that multiculturalism is in crisis as a mediated idea connected to the more general culturalization of politics. This emerges from a project on 'Questioning the European "Crisis of Multiculturalism"' culminating in a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies out in 2011.
A blog charting the project can be accessed here, or join the Facebook group.
I am currently developing a new line of research examining the potential parallels between the questioning of multiculturalism in Europe and the challenges for secularism and pluralism in India. My intention is to use new methodologies of visual sociology towards the development of an epistemology of 'global cultural translation' which seeks to interpret societal transformation from a global perspective that appreciates the impact of events in different world regions upon each other, both historically and contemporarily.
Within the Sussex for Cultural Studies,
I am developing research strands on Tolerance/Exuberance and
Safety/Fear within the Centre's work programme: Senses and
Sensibilities.
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
I am interested in supervising PhD students in any of the above mentioned, or related, domains.
I currently supervise Katya Salmi's research on the effectiveness of current racial discrimination policies and laws in France and Johanna Samuelson's thesis on frames of belonging within queer activist visions of the future.
Teaching
I convene and tutor the following 2nd year undergraduate courses:
I also contribute to Themes and Perspectives II.
I teach a Spring Term option on Race Critical Theory offered on the MA in Social and Political Thought but open to students on other postgraduate programmes. Please note that this option will not be offered in the academic year 2009-10.
I also contribute sessions on feminist and anti-racist epistemologies and decolonial thought and gender on the following two MA courses:
Philosophy of Social Science and Social Science Research Practice (MSc in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Social Research & Associated Awards)
Theorizing the Social (MA Social and Political Thought)
Publications
Racism: A beginners' guide. OneWorld Publications, August 2008.
Racism and Anti-racism in Europe. Pluto Press, June 2004.
Race and State. (Edited with Ronit Lentin) Cambridge Scholars' Press, Sept. 2008.
The Politics of Diversity in Europe. (Edited with Gavan Titley) Council of Europe, 2008.
Learning from Violence - the Youth Dimension (Ed.) Council of Europe, 2004.
PUBLISHED REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
- ' Europe and the Silence About Race,' European Journal of Social Theory 11(4): 487-503, 2008.
- 'After Anti-Racism?,' European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11(3): 311-331, 2008.
- 'Replacing "Race": Historicising the "culture" in multiculturalism' Patterns of Prejudice 39(4), December 2005: 379-396.
- ' Racial States, Anti-Racist Responses: Picking holes in "culture" and "human rights",' European Journal of Social Theory 7(4) November 2004: 427-443.
- '"Race" and Western Culture', European Journal of Social Theory, 4(4) November 2001: 516525.
- '"Race", Racism, Anti-Racism: Challenging contemporary classifications', Social Identities 6(1), March 2000: 91-106.
- 'Structure, Strategy, Sustainability: What future for New Social
Movement theory?', Sociological Research
Online 4(3),September 1999.
http://www.socresonline.org.uk
FORTHCOMING REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
- 'Introduction: Questioning the European "Crisis of Multiculturalism",' (with Gavan Titley), European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2011.
SPECIAL ISSUES
- Questioning the European 'Crisis of Multiculturalism', European Journal of Cultural Studies, forthcoming 2011.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW
- 'Imparting Lived experience: Teaching and learning on race and racism at a university in the South of England,' article under review.
EDITED VOLUMES
- 'Competing Anti-racisms and the Interpretation of Racism in the Post-Multicultural Era,' in Sean P. Hier, Singh Bolaria and Dan Lett (eds.), Racism, Identity and Justice: Dialogue on the Politics of Inequality and Change, 2009.
- 'Racism, anti-racism and the western state', in Delanty, G., Wodak, R., and Jones, P. (eds), Identity, Belonging and Migration. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. 'More Benetton than Barricades?',' in Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin (eds.) The Politics of Diversity, Council of Europe, 2008.
- 'Deauthenticating Fanon: Self-organised anti-racism and the politics of experience,' in Alana Lentin and Ronit Lentin (Eds.) Race and State. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2006: 53-70.
- 'Introduction,' in Alana Lentin and Ronit Lentin (Eds.) Race and State. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2006: 1-14.
- 'Anti-racism in Ireland,' in Niamh Hourigan and Linda Connolly (Eds.), Social Movements and Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, September 2006.
- ' Israel,' in Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen (Eds.) Immigration and Asylum: An Encyclopedia. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- 'The Problem of Culture & Human Rights in the Response to Racism', Resituating Culture, Council of Europe, 2004.
- 'Introduction' (Ed.) Learning
from Violence - The Youth Dimension, Council of
Europe,
2004.
REVIEWS
- Gilroy, P. After Empire: Melancholia or Communal Culture, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2004; Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2004. Ethnic and Racial Studies 29(1): 186-207, 2006.
- Garner, S., Racism in the Irish Experience. London: Pluto Press, 2004. European Journal of Social Theory 7(4), November 2004: 549-552.
- Hanagan, M. and Tilly, C., Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States. London: Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24(5), September 2001.
- Marqusee, M., Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the
Sixties,
London:
Verso, 2000. Social Identities 8 (1): 191-195.
WEBSITES
- Shilpa Shetty and celebrity Big Brother. OpenDemocracy, January 2007.
- 'The Intifada of the Banlieues,' Open Democracy, November 2005.
- 'Multiculturalism or Anti-Racism?', Translating Differences: The multiculturalism debate. Open Democracy, September 2004.
- 'Racism and Human Rights: Towards a new humanism?'. The Voice of the Turtle.
JOURNALISM
- 'Mirage of Cosy Diversity Takes a Hammering,' Metro Eireann, January 25 2007.
- 'Islamophobia: Believe your own eyes,' Metro Eireann, September 4 2006.