Her first monograph, Itineraries in Conflict, examined how Jewish Israeli tourist practices of the 1990s were a means of navigating Israel’s changing relationship to Palestinians and the broader Arab World.
Informed by post-colonial critiques, Stein frames Israeli tourist routes through neighboring Arab countries and Palestinian communities as an unstable, yet politically charged, forms of settler nationalism.
Stein provides the reader with a powerful and insightful analysis of the cultural forms and practices through which a shifting geographic imaginary comes to be instantiated within Israeli public life.”[6] Stein would write a number of additional articles on these themes, including on Zionist hiking as practices of territorial conquest in pre-1948 Palestine,[7] Israeli tourism-politics in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories and during the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon,[8] and the Airbnb market in the Jewish settlements.
"[11] Miriam Aouragh lauded the broader publication as a "fast paced, concise, and sharp book" which "stands apart through its scholarly treatment and theoretical framing (about memory, time, and digital archiving)" that "are interwoven with media and communication themes and enriched by recollections of dramatic events that draw on alternative Israeli sources.
"[12] Oren Livio discussed how Digital Militarism "continues – and in some places kicks off – an important theoretical conversation regarding the interplay of social media, technology and ideology.