Research Interests for Rebecca L. Stein

Rebecca L. Stein's (PhD Stanford U 1999) research examines the relationship between Israeli cultural politics and transnational political processes in the Middle East, in the context of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Her recent writing has explored the ways that Israeli popular culture is consumed in articulation with the transnational circuits of capital, labor, and culture that have attended the geopolitical reconfiguration of the region during the last decade. Trained in both cultural anthropology and cultural theory, her work is situated at the intersection of anthropology, post-structural theory, and political economy. Stein's teaching in the areas of Israel and Palestine history and culture, colonialism and nationalism, popular culture and consumption, gender and queer studies.

Keywords:

Popular Culture, Nationalism, Post-coloniality, Global forms and flows, Governmentality

Areas of Interest:

Middle East

Representative Publications

1. R.L. Stein, Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (2008), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php]
2. Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.), Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (2005), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php]
3. Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (editors), The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (2006), Stanford University Press
4. R.L. Stein, Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War, Journal for Cultural Research (special issue on Arab Cultural Studies) (forthcoming, 2012)
5. R.L. Stein, StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State, Anthropological Quarterly (forthcoming, 2012)
6. Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Suspicion, Politics, and the Middle East, Critical Inquiry (online feature on Arab Spring) (2011)
7. Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Another War Zone: New Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Middle East Report (September, 2010) [another-war-zone]
8. R.L. Stein, Israeli Routes Through Nakba Landscapes: An Ethnographic Meditation, Jerusalem Quarterly (2010, No. 43)
9. R.L. Stein, Explosive: Scenes from Israel's Queer Occupation, GLQ: Gay Lesbian Quarterly, vol. 16 no. 4 (2010)
10. R.L. Stein, Traveling Zion: Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in pre-1948 Palestine, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 11 no. 3 (Fall, 2009), pp. 334 - 351
11. R.L. Stein, Souvenirs of Conquest: Israeli Occupations as Tourist Events, International Journal of Middle East Studies (November, 2008)