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Research Interests:

My research studies linkages between cultural and political processes in Israel in relation to its military occupation and the history of Palestinian dispossession. I am the author of (with Adi Kuntsman) Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford University Press, 2015), which studies the interplay between new media and military occupation in the Israel/Palestine context, Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (Duke University Press, 2008) which considers the relationship between tourism, mobility politics, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the co-editor of Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2005) with Ted Swedenburg and The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 with Joel Beinin (Stanford University Press, 2006). 




I am currently continuing work on a multi-book project about the ways that new communication technologies are meditating the everyday Israeli relationship to its military occupation -- including the ways such technologies are changing practices and logics of military 'counterinsurgency', altering the everyday terms of soldiering, changing the Israeli civilian relationship to Palestinians under occupation, and remaking the terrain of human rights work and anti-occupation activism within Israel. My first book on this topic --Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age( (with Adi Kuntsman) -- studied the place of social media within this equation. My second book project -- Viral Occupation: Military Rule On Camera - considers the role of photographic technologies and viral image networks within this framework, with a focus on how the smartphone camera has altered this political landscape. This work has been supported by grants from the Wenner Gren foundation and Palestinian American Research Council. 




My work on Israeli cultural politics has appeared in such journals as Critical Inquiry, Anthropological Quarterly, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Social Text, Public Culture, Theory and Event, Journal of Palestine Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Current projects: Viral Occupation

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Stein, R; Kuntsman, A. Digital militarism : Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age. Stanford University Press, 2015. [available here]
2. R.L. Stein. Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism. Duke University Press, 2008.
3. Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.). Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke University Press, 2005.
4. Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (editors). The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford University Press, 2006.
5. R.L. Stein. "Dispossession Reconsidered: Israel, Nakba, Things (in French)." Ethnologie Francaise -- Special issue, "Israel au Quotidien"  ( 2015.).
6. Stein, RL; Kuntsman, A. "Selfie Militarism." London Review of Books  ( 2014.). [available here]
7. Stein, RL. "Viral Occupation Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank." Middle East Report  ( 2013.). [mero032013]
8. Stein, RL. "Inside Israel's Twitter War Room: History of a Social Media Arsenal." Middle East Report  ( 2012.). [mero112412]
9. Stein, RL. "An All-Consuming Occupation." Middle East Report  ( 2012.). [mero062612]
10. Stein, RL. "Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War." Journal for Cultural Research (special issue on Arab Cultural Studies)  vol. 16 no. 2-3 ( 2012.): 135-153. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
11. Stein, RL. "State Tube: Anthropological reflections on social media and the Israeli State." Anthropological Quarterly  vol. 85 no. 3 (September, 2012.): 893-916. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
12. Kuntsman, A; Stein, RL. "Digital Suspicion, Politics, and the Middle East." Critical Inquiry (online feature on Arab Spring)  ( 2011.). [available here]
13. Kuntsman, A; Stein, RL. "Another War Zone: New Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Middle East Report  ( 2010.). [another-war-zone]
14. Stein, RL. "Israeli Routes Through Nakba Landscapes: An Ethnographic Meditation." Jerusalem Quarterly  vol. 43 ( 2010.). [Israeli_Routes_Through_Nakba_Landscapes_An_Ethnographic_Meditation]
15. Stein, RL. "EXPLOSIVE." Glq: a Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies  vol. 16 no. 4 (October, 2010.): 517-536. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
16. Stein, RL. "TRAVELLING ZION Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in pre-1948 Palestine." Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies  vol. 11 no. 3 (Fall, 2009.): 334-351. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]

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