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 Bath University, SOAS, Metropolitan University and UCL.
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.
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
Ichijo, Atsuko and Ranta, Ronald (2016) Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 196p. ISBN 9781137483126
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
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. (no. 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
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