Crossing Collaborators: Emotion, Informing, and Civilian Mobilization in Occupied South Lebanon

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3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
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Online

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Dr. Sarah Parkinson (Johns Hopkins)

This talk focuses on Chapter 5 of the forthcoming book Beyond the Lines, entitled “Crossing Collaborators: Emotion, Informing, and Civilian Mobilization in Occupied South Lebanon.” It examines how, in 1982-1985, the Israeli forces’ mass internment of Palestinian boys and men, alongside widespread Israeli use of collaborators, spurred Palestinian women and youth in South Lebanon to remap ties across political affiliations and between generational cohorts. These processes created community-based advocacy and counterintelligence networks. Narratives of shared fear, resentment, and vulnerability; resistance toolkits; and eventually, practices of unmasking and anti-collaborator violence constituted these emergent networks.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Sarah E. Parkinson is the Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines organizational behavior and social change in war- and disaster-affected settings. Parkinson has published research on militant organizations’ decision-making and internal dynamics, forced migration, ethics, and research methods. More recently, she has been studying disaster response, with an emphasis on socialization and knowledge accumulation among emergency personnel. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and Iraq. Parkinson’s scholarship can be found in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, Social Science and Medicine, and Comparative Political Studies, in addition to outlets such as Foreign Policy and the Monkey Cage. Parkinson is also a co-founder of the Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium. She received her PhD and MA in political science from the University of Chicago and has held fellowships at Yale University, George Washington University, and the University of Minnesota.

Zoom link: https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98671597583?pwd=L2I1OW9XQnVwRkpYTys5ZmZsaWtvQT09