Dr Ronald Ranta

Contact

Email: ronald.ranta@kingston.ac.uk
Location: Penrhyn Road
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
School: School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Department: Department of Politics

About

I am a senior lecturer in politics and international relations as well as the politics department's postgraduate programme coordinator and course leader for the MSc in international relations. I joined the department in 2014, having previously taught at the University of Bath, SOAS, London Metropolitan University and UCL.

Academic responsibilities

Senior lecturer in politics and international relations

Qualifications

2009 PhD Middle Eastern Studies, UCL
2005 MSc International Conflict, Kingston University
2004 UG Diploma Geology, Birkbeck University
2000 NVQ3 Chef Studies, Butlers Wharf Chef School
1997 BA (Hons) Film and Video, University of Arts London

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My research focuses on nationalism and the politics of identity through three broad areas of interest. The first area grew out of my PhD research on the Arab-Israeli conflict and examines the way in which Israeli national identity and culture were and continue to be constructed in relation to Palestinian identity and culture. The second area of interest, concerns the relationship between food, nationalism and globalisation. As a former chef, I am particularly interested in how, in relation to globalisation, food is conceptualised and promoted as national. Finally, I am involved in a British academy/Leverhulme funded research project looking at the perceptions of identity and challenges of belonging among EU citizens in the UK.

Research student supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 20.

Article

Ranta, Ronald [Reviewer] (2021) Book Review of: 'How long will Israel survive? The threat from within' by Gregg Carlstrom. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 20(1), p. 117. ISSN (print) 1472-5886

Ranta, Ronald (2020) The Londoner’s meal. Nature Food, 1(1), p. 92. ISSN (online) 2662-1355

Ranta, Ronald (2019) Dissonance on the Brexit menu : what does Britain want to eat? The Political Quarterly, 90(4), pp. 654-663. ISSN (print) 0032-3179

Ranta, Ronald and Nancheva, Nevena (2019) Eating banitsa in London : re-inventing Bulgarian foodways in the context of inter-EU migration. Appetite, 139, pp. 67-74. ISSN (print) 0195-6663

Ranta, Ronald and Nancheva, Nevena (2019) Unsettled : Brexit and European Union nationals' sense of belonging. Population, Space and Place, 25(1), e2199. ISSN (print) 1544-8444

Ranta, Ronald and Mendel, Yonatan (2014) Consuming Palestine : Palestine and Palestinians in Israeli food culture. Ethnicities, 14(3), pp. 412-435. ISSN (print) 1468-7968

Book

Ichijo, Atsuko , Johannes, Venetia and Ranta, Ronald, eds. (2019) The emergence of national food : the dynamics of food and nationalism. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. 224p. ISBN 9781350074132

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Food, national identity and nationalism : from everyday to global politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 196p. ISBN 9781137483126

Mendel, Yonatan and Ranta, Ronald (2016) From the Arab other to the Israeli self : Palestinian culture in the making of Israeli national identity. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 166p. (Studies in Migration and Diaspora) ISBN 9781472449351

Ranta, R. (2015) Political decision making and non-decisions : the case of Israel and the Occupied Territories. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 229p. ISBN 9781137447982

Book Section

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Conclusion : food, nationalism and politics. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 164-170. (III) ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Consuming nations: the construction of national identities in the food industry. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, national identity and nationalism: from everyday to global politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 61-81. ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Everyday Creation of the Nation. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 21-42. ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Food and Diet in ‘Official’ Nationalism. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 85-106. (II) ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) International Organisations, Food and Nationalism. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 146-163. ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) National Food in the International Context. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 107-124. ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Norms, Food and Nationalism. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 127-145. ISBN 9781137483126

Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) When Groups Participate in Defining the Nation. In: Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranter, Ronald, (eds.) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 43-60. ISBN 9781137483126

Ranta, Ronald (2015) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In: Hough, P. , Malik, S. , Moran, A. and Pilbeam, B., (eds.) International security studies: theory and practice. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 401-409. ISBN 9780415734356

Monograph

Finn, Peter [Editor], Cinpoes, Radu [Author-contributor], Ichijo, Atsuko [Author-contributor], Ledger, Robert [Author-contributor], Nancheva, Nevena [Author-contributor], Pettitt, Robin [Author-contributor] and Ranta, Ronald [Author-contributor] (2020) Covid-19 and democracy, first cut policy analyses : country case studies. (Project Report) Kingston University. 92 p.

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