

Political Science
Main research areas
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Agonistic Theory
- Protest and epistemic disruptions
- Feminist ethnography
- Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
Current Research
For my PhD, I am researching embodied approaches to challenging dominant systems of knowledge in everyday life in Palestine and Israel. My focus is on the interaction between agonistic and antagonistic dimensions within epistemic struggles and embodied forms of protest. Specifically, I examine how Palestinian artists within Israel and the West Bank as well as Israeli anti-Zionist/anti-apartheid activists use embodied performances to disrupt hegemonic knowledge systems and resist various forms of violence and injustice. My research also touches on future-oriented or utopian reimaginations of Palestine as expressed through these performances. I conceptualise the agonistic-antagonistic interplay as a performative, epistemically disruptive politics—an embodied language of dissent that opens up political spaces for the emergence of new subjectivities. My research is part of the project “Pushing the boundaries of peace research - reconceptualizing and measuring agonistic peace” (PUSHPEACE), funded by Riksbanken Jubileumsfond 2019-2023.
Publications
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Israël-Hamas : le mouvement pour la paix a-t-il été assassiné le 7 octobre ?
Anne Lene Stein
(2023) The Conversation
Journal articleIsrael-Hamas war: will the murder of peace activists mean the end of the peace movement?
Anne Lene Stein
(2023) The Conversation
Newspaper articleAgonistic peace agreements? : Analytical tools and dilemmas
Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen, Anne Lene Stein
(2022) Review of International Studies, 48 p.689-704
Journal article
Introduction
I hold a master degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Marburg. Prior to this, I received a master in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Free University Amsterdam (VU) and a bachelor degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Vienna.