Holdover practices

Summary

Parkinson’s term in the Conclusion for constitutive knowledge, skills, practices and routines developed under dire wartime conditions that have been worked into the everyday banalities of more peaceful times (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.178).

The practice of teaching every child, even very young children, their blood type in case of transfusion originated during the War of the Camps, when Palestinians were cut off from external supplies and the hospitals in Burj al-Barajneh and Shatila were frequently in desperate need of blood donations; after the November 12, 2015 ISIS suicide bombing adjacent to Burj al-Barajneh, camp friends mobilized blood-donation requests, including for A negative and B negative blood (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.178).
A civil society organization was able to address gender-based violence by employing women who had worked in the underground during the Israeli occupation and the War of the Camps, whose money-smuggling to families had left them with trust-based ties and intimate awareness of family dynamics (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.178-179).
Holdover practices are presented as evidence of the lasting influence of organizational and community-level adaptations to past violence and repression, invoked when people reach for old connections and points of reference (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.179).

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aliases