Summary
Parkinson’s term for the patterns of overlap between quotidian networks — everyday kinship, marriage, friendship and community relationships — and formal organizational hierarchies, through which violence reverberates and organizations adapt (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.31).
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Formal hierarchies are the official configuration of chains of command, subdivisional layouts and planned task differentiation; which quotidian ties sit near which formal ties matters concretely, as in whether an informant plays soccer with a recruiter’s cousin or a unit commander is married to a general’s son (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.31).
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A mass detention aimed at fighters by gender is experienced through the social infrastructure as the disappearance of husbands, fathers, children, brothers, breadwinners and athletes at once (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.31).
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Groups with similar social infrastructures can adapt in remarkably different ways to localized repertoires of violence, a core finding the Introduction announces (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.37).
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Chapter 2’s “state in waiting” capacities built that infrastructure before 1982: a three-level military apparatus, Palestinian Red Crescent Society healthcare (nine hospitals and twelve clinics treating 425,682 patients in 1980), and scouting and sporting organizations whose ties persisted across factions — alongside the caveat that the 1981 TIEMC data are primarily self-reported and cover only factions’ social-wing projects (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.69-74).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, Backstage labor, Organizational adaptation, Relational plasticity