Summary
The set of practices a group routinely engages in as it makes claims on other political or social actors, in E. J. Wood’s definition as quoted by Parkinson, whose localized forms — siege, informing, mass internment, assassination — produce distinct material and meaning-based effects on militant social networks (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.28, p.30-31).
Details
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Violence is treated beyond body counts: pressure to collaborate and inform, incarceration and detention, sieges and forced starvation, and nonlethal intimidation and harassment all shape organizational outcomes through feedback loops in social networks (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.30).
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The same material effect — one network node removed — carries different organizational consequences depending on how a death is understood, and a death, a capture and a disappearance differ qualitatively (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.31).
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Amal’s repertoires differed between Saida and Beirut and Sur, and within Sur itself, during the War of the Camps (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.34).
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Chapter 3 problematizes the scholarly dichotomies of indiscriminate/selective and direct/indirect violence: each label subsumes very different forms of violence deployed concurrently, scholarship centres perpetrators’ intentions rather than targeted populations’ experiences — incarceration, ostensibly selective, was experienced as indiscriminate — and the same tactic, such as blanket incarceration of a village’s adult men, is reasonably coded either way (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.76-77).
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Regionalized repertoires in the summer of 1982 — aerial bombardment and camp destruction and gendered mass incarceration in the South, against siege, mopping-up and the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut — shaped the material content of and the collective meanings embedded in Palestinian social networks, and so affected local organizational and social change, without the selective/indiscriminate distinction itself determining outcomes (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.87, p.93).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, Organizational adaptation, Social infrastructure