Summary
The author of Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon (Cornell University Press, 2022), whose two years of research in Lebanon — including ten months of organizational ethnography with Fateh’s Women’s Office and in-depth interviews with 114 current and former militants — ground the book’s account of Backstage labor and Organizational adaptation (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.10-13, p.41).
Details
- The project began as a dissertation at the University of Chicago, advised by John Padgett; portions were previously published in The American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics and World Politics (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.10, p.12).
- Research was hosted by the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut in 2009-2010 and again in 2018, and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Palestinian American Research Center, the Project on Middle East Political Science and Johns Hopkins University (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.11).
- The method is immersive and incremental: volunteering in a South Beirut camp, archival research, shadowing interlocutors in their everyday work, and return visits over years, against what the book calls fly-by and parachute research (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.41-44).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, Backstage labor, Social infrastructure, Organizational metadata