Rebecca L Stein
Biographic Data
| ID | 579464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca L Stein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca L |
| FAMILY NAME | Stein |
| SIGNATURE | STEIN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2360-7337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gaza and the rise of synthetic militarism: On genocide and generative AI
Drawing on the case of the Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza, with attention to how Israelis and their supporters were employing synthetic images as political tools, this essay responds to current academic debates around visual generative AI in political contexts. The essay asks: How is the media landscape of war and political violence being reconfigured by generative AI? What is the political work of AI misinformation charges when they are direc…
How to unsee Gaza: Israel’s visual politics in a time of genocide
From its outset, the Israeli war on Gaza was understood by many Israeli Jews as a battle over image evidence that they risked losing—in large measure, they believed, due to the threat of the Palestinian media ecosystem, streaming genocide to global publics in real time. Drawing on a set of diverse case studies, this article examines the myriad ways that Israeli state and mainstream media institutions, influencers and ordinary citizens, endeavored…
The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview with Rebecca L. Stein
This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore issues of state violence and the militarization of social media in Israel/Palestine. This book marks the culmination of a decade-long research project into the camera dreams introduced by digital imag…
Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish…
The Boy Who Wasn't Really Killed”: Israeli State Violence in the Age of the Smartphone Witness
Over the course of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, within the occupied Palestinian territories, photographic technologies and image-oriented politics would grow increasingly central as activist and human-rights tools of bearing witness to Israeli state and settler violence. This essay investigates the Israeli right-wing and international Zionist response to these Palestinian visual archives and their perceived threat. In partic…
GoPro Occupation: Networked Cameras, Israeli Military Rule, and the Digital Promise
This paper is an ethnographical exploration of the growing importance of photographic technologies within the contemporary political theater of Israel's military occupation studied from the vantage of Israeli actors and institutions. My ethnography focuses on the Israeli military's growing investment in cameras as public relations technologies and how Israeli human rights groups are employing camera technologies against the military in unpreceden…
StolenHomes: Israeli Tourism and/as Military Occupation in Historical Perspective
StolenHomes:Israeli Tourism and/as Military Occupation in Historical Perspective Rebecca L. Stein (bio) In the winter of 2016, the Israeli left-wing blogosphere broke the news that the so-called sharing economy had come to the occupied Palestinian territories. "Fancy a vacation with breathtaking views of the Holy Land? Airbnb will let you rent out luxurious cottages atop barren hilltops, making no mention of the fact that they are in settlements …
Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age
Contents and Abstracts1When Instagram Went to War: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age chapter abstractThis chapter provides the historical and theoretical parameters of the book, defining the term and outlining the ways it has changed during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It sketches the relationship between the changing Israeli political playfield of these years and the growth of the national culture in social networ…
Retour sur la dépossession Israël, la Nakba , les Choses
Considérant la façon dont des juifs israéliens de diverses communautés ont dû faire face à l'histoire de la dépossession palestinienne au cours de la guerre de 1948-1949, cet article traite de la manière dont cette histoire affecte les choses ayant appartenu aux Palestiniens et propose un changement de perspective en mettant l'accent non plus sur la dépossession mais sur la re-possession . Il s'agit de prendre au sérieux les modalités selon lesqu…
Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony and the Gaza War
This article studies Israeli news coverage (chiefly via newspapers and television) of the Gaza war of 2008-2009, with a focus on what the national media withheld from its consuming publics - namely, depiction of the extent of Israeli-inflicted violence upon Gazan people and infrastructure. At the core of this article is a study of an anomalous instance of Palestinian testimonial which was broadcast live on Israeli national television - this in an…
StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State
StateTube:Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State Rebecca L. Stein Computers and keyboards are the weapons-Facebook and Twitter are the battlefields. It is there that we fight, each and every day. -Israel Defense Forces spokesman, New Media Division Facebook pages...have as much impact as a tank-and sometimes even more. -Israeli Member of Parliament, Danny Danon (Likud) Consider, as a point of departure, a set of images …
Tours that bind: Diaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism
Tours that bind: diaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism, by Shaul Kelner, New York, NY, New York University Press, 2010, 304 pp., US$24.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-1847-4817-6; US$35.0
Israeli Routes Through Nakba Landscapes: An Ethnographic Meditation
While conducting research about the history of northern Israel, an Israeli friend of mine stumbled across the story of a mosque whose remains were situated on the grounds of her father’s childhood kibbutz. She learned that the mosque’s structure had remained relatively intact long after its Palestinian client population had fled or been expelled during the course of the 1948-1949 war, while its lands had been folded into the territory of the nasc…
Explosive
This essay examines two works by the Israeli director Eytan Fox-Florentin, a television serial, and The Bubble, a feature film-and the highly divergent ways they negotiate the interplay between queerness, the Israeli state, and the Israeli military occupation. Reading Fox's works symptomatically, the essay proposes that Florentin and The Bubble can be understood as indexes of the changing Israeli political landscape of the last decade-both the va…
Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 by Ilana Feldman
Travelling Zion: Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in Pre - 1948 Palestine
This essay considers the political import of the hike or walk (ha-tiyul; plural, tiyulim) among Jewish settlers in Palestine during the first decades of the twentieth century. Situating this travelling practice within the broader Zionist discourse of which it was a part, I will suggest that the tiyulim conducted by Jewish settlers were important technologies of settler nation-making which helped to rewrite Arab Palestine as a Jewish geography. Dr…
Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism
Souvenirs of Conquest: Israeli Occupations as Tourist Events
This paper studies the intersections between military occupation and tourism in contemporary Israel. Focusing on two key moments of Israeli military engagement—the 1967 war and subsequent Israeli military occupation and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon—the paper considers the ways that mainstream Israeli newspapers represented the conquest and/or incursion to Israeli publics through stories about Israeli tourism, consumption, and pleasure in …
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005
After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise in poverty and unemployment due to a complex array of closures, militarized checkpoints, and bypass roads, and a vast expansion of the settlement projec…
The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli …
Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel. Daniel Lefkowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 316 pp
P opular C ulture , R elational H istory , and the Q uestion of P ower in P alestine and I srael
The marginalization of popular culture in radical scholarship on Palestine and Israel is symptomatic of the conceptual limits that still define much Middle East studies scholarship: namely, the prevailing logic of the nation-state on the one hand and the analytic tools of classical Marxist historiography and political economy on the other. This essay offers a polemic about the form that alternative scholarly projects might take through recourse t…
Middle East Section: Tourism, the Nation-State and Settler-Modernity in Israel
Pappe Faces down Prosecution
Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism
StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State
StateTube:Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State Rebecca L. Stein Computers and keyboards are the weapons-Facebook and Twitter are the battlefields. It is there that we fight, each and every day. -Israel Defense Forces spokesman, New Media Division Facebook pages...have as much impact as a tank-and sometimes even more. -Israeli Member of Parliament, Danny Danon (Likud) Consider, as a point of departure, a set of images …
GoPro Occupation: Networked Cameras, Israeli Military Rule, and the Digital Promise
This paper is an ethnographical exploration of the growing importance of photographic technologies within the contemporary political theater of Israel's military occupation studied from the vantage of Israeli actors and institutions. My ethnography focuses on the Israeli military's growing investment in cameras as public relations technologies and how Israeli human rights groups are employing camera technologies against the military in unpreceden…
Explosive
This essay examines two works by the Israeli director Eytan Fox-Florentin, a television serial, and The Bubble, a feature film-and the highly divergent ways they negotiate the interplay between queerness, the Israeli state, and the Israeli military occupation. Reading Fox's works symptomatically, the essay proposes that Florentin and The Bubble can be understood as indexes of the changing Israeli political landscape of the last decade-both the va…
Souvenirs of Conquest: Israeli Occupations as Tourist Events
This paper studies the intersections between military occupation and tourism in contemporary Israel. Focusing on two key moments of Israeli military engagement—the 1967 war and subsequent Israeli military occupation and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon—the paper considers the ways that mainstream Israeli newspapers represented the conquest and/or incursion to Israeli publics through stories about Israeli tourism, consumption, and pleasure in …
P opular C ulture , R elational H istory , and the Q uestion of P ower in P alestine and I srael
The marginalization of popular culture in radical scholarship on Palestine and Israel is symptomatic of the conceptual limits that still define much Middle East studies scholarship: namely, the prevailing logic of the nation-state on the one hand and the analytic tools of classical Marxist historiography and political economy on the other. This essay offers a polemic about the form that alternative scholarly projects might take through recourse t…
Travelling Zion: Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in Pre - 1948 Palestine
This essay considers the political import of the hike or walk (ha-tiyul; plural, tiyulim) among Jewish settlers in Palestine during the first decades of the twentieth century. Situating this travelling practice within the broader Zionist discourse of which it was a part, I will suggest that the tiyulim conducted by Jewish settlers were important technologies of settler nation-making which helped to rewrite Arab Palestine as a Jewish geography. Dr…
StolenHomes: Israeli Tourism and/as Military Occupation in Historical Perspective
StolenHomes:Israeli Tourism and/as Military Occupation in Historical Perspective Rebecca L. Stein (bio) In the winter of 2016, the Israeli left-wing blogosphere broke the news that the so-called sharing economy had come to the occupied Palestinian territories. "Fancy a vacation with breathtaking views of the Holy Land? Airbnb will let you rent out luxurious cottages atop barren hilltops, making no mention of the fact that they are in settlements …
The Boy Who Wasn't Really Killed”: Israeli State Violence in the Age of the Smartphone Witness
Over the course of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, within the occupied Palestinian territories, photographic technologies and image-oriented politics would grow increasingly central as activist and human-rights tools of bearing witness to Israeli state and settler violence. This essay investigates the Israeli right-wing and international Zionist response to these Palestinian visual archives and their perceived threat. In partic…
Retour sur la dépossession Israël, la Nakba , les Choses
Considérant la façon dont des juifs israéliens de diverses communautés ont dû faire face à l'histoire de la dépossession palestinienne au cours de la guerre de 1948-1949, cet article traite de la manière dont cette histoire affecte les choses ayant appartenu aux Palestiniens et propose un changement de perspective en mettant l'accent non plus sur la dépossession mais sur la re-possession . Il s'agit de prendre au sérieux les modalités selon lesqu…
"First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process
Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 3, Fall 2002
National Itineraries, Itinerant Nations: Israeli Tourism and Palestinian Cultural Production
A travers divers exemples, cet article se penche sur la politique touristique israelienne du gouvernement Rabin/Peres (1992-96), qui a developpe le tourisme rural en secteur arabe. Cet article considere ce tourisme comme une expression sous forme marchande des reformulations de l'idee de nation en Israel dans le contexte des Accords d'Oslo de septembre 1993
The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview with Rebecca L. Stein
This interview with media anthropologist, Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore issues of state violence and the militarization of social media in Israel/Palestine. This book marks the culmination of a decade-long research project into the camera dreams introduced by digital imag…
Zealots for Zion
Itineraries of Peace: Remapping Israeli and Palestinian Tourism
The Limits of Revisionist Imagination
From Schmaltz to Sacrilege: Commemorating Israel after Rabin
National Itineraries, Itinerant Nations: Israeli Tourism and Palestinian Cultural Production
A travers divers exemples, cet article se penche sur la politique touristique israelienne du gouvernement Rabin/Peres (1992-96), qui a developpe le tourisme rural en secteur arabe. Cet article considere ce tourisme comme une expression sous forme marchande des reformulations de l'idee de nation en Israel dans le contexte des Accords d'Oslo de septembre 1993
Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence:Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli- Palestinian Coexistence
Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence
Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli- Palestinian Coexistence. Ayala Emmett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 278 pp
Spatial Fantasies Israeli Popular Culture after Oslo
Pappe Faces down Prosecution
Israeli Leisure, 'Palestinian Terror,' and The Question of Palestine (Again)
Israeli Leisure, ‘Palestinian Terror,’ and The Question of Palestine (Again) Rebecca Stein (bio) Long after the arguments in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) have acquired both academic and popular currency, what’s remarkable is the degree to which Said’s The Question of Palestine (1979) remains a bold intervention into dominant U.S. discourse on the Middle East. At the most rudimentary level, Said’s text aimed to establish the very existence of …
"First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process
Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 3, Fall 2002
P opular C ulture , R elational H istory , and the Q uestion of P ower in P alestine and I srael
The marginalization of popular culture in radical scholarship on Palestine and Israel is symptomatic of the conceptual limits that still define much Middle East studies scholarship: namely, the prevailing logic of the nation-state on the one hand and the analytic tools of classical Marxist historiography and political economy on the other. This essay offers a polemic about the form that alternative scholarly projects might take through recourse t…
Middle East Section: Tourism, the Nation-State and Settler-Modernity in Israel
The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli …
Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel. Daniel Lefkowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 316 pp
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005
After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise in poverty and unemployment due to a complex array of closures, militarized checkpoints, and bypass roads, and a vast expansion of the settlement projec…
Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism
Souvenirs of Conquest: Israeli Occupations as Tourist Events
This paper studies the intersections between military occupation and tourism in contemporary Israel. Focusing on two key moments of Israeli military engagement—the 1967 war and subsequent Israeli military occupation and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon—the paper considers the ways that mainstream Israeli newspapers represented the conquest and/or incursion to Israeli publics through stories about Israeli tourism, consumption, and pleasure in …
Travelling Zion: Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in Pre - 1948 Palestine
This essay considers the political import of the hike or walk (ha-tiyul; plural, tiyulim) among Jewish settlers in Palestine during the first decades of the twentieth century. Situating this travelling practice within the broader Zionist discourse of which it was a part, I will suggest that the tiyulim conducted by Jewish settlers were important technologies of settler nation-making which helped to rewrite Arab Palestine as a Jewish geography. Dr…
Israeli Routes Through Nakba Landscapes: An Ethnographic Meditation
While conducting research about the history of northern Israel, an Israeli friend of mine stumbled across the story of a mosque whose remains were situated on the grounds of her father’s childhood kibbutz. She learned that the mosque’s structure had remained relatively intact long after its Palestinian client population had fled or been expelled during the course of the 1948-1949 war, while its lands had been folded into the territory of the nasc…
Explosive
This essay examines two works by the Israeli director Eytan Fox-Florentin, a television serial, and The Bubble, a feature film-and the highly divergent ways they negotiate the interplay between queerness, the Israeli state, and the Israeli military occupation. Reading Fox's works symptomatically, the essay proposes that Florentin and The Bubble can be understood as indexes of the changing Israeli political landscape of the last decade-both the va…
Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 by Ilana Feldman
Tours that bind: Diaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism
Tours that bind: diaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism, by Shaul Kelner, New York, NY, New York University Press, 2010, 304 pp., US$24.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-1847-4817-6; US$35.0
Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony and the Gaza War
This article studies Israeli news coverage (chiefly via newspapers and television) of the Gaza war of 2008-2009, with a focus on what the national media withheld from its consuming publics - namely, depiction of the extent of Israeli-inflicted violence upon Gazan people and infrastructure. At the core of this article is a study of an anomalous instance of Palestinian testimonial which was broadcast live on Israeli national television - this in an…
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