On April 24, CMES hosted a seminar with Anne Lene Stein, a doctoral student in Political Science at Lund University. In her talk, Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel, she shared insights from her ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2022 and 2023 across East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and other parts of Israel.
Anne Lene Stein's research, part of her PhD project Agonism Against the Odds, looks at how people use protest, performance, and everyday actions to challenge dominant ways of thinking about the region. Through open-ended interviews, she explores how individuals push back against injustice and imagine new futures, even in a landscape marked by deep divisions.
During the seminar, Anne Lene Stein spoke about the practical challenges of carrying out research across different areas in Israel and Palestine, where borders and restrictions often make it hard to connect experiences from both sides. She emphasized the need for a broader approach - one that moves beyond focusing on just one group or territory - to better understand the realities of life in the region.
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