Brokerage creates new collective actors and identities by connecting unconnected sites

Evidence

As it does elsewhere, brokerage among disparate groups explains many alignments and realignments in South African politics between 1980 and 1995. Brokers connect previously unconnected sites, and thereby promote the creation of new collective actors and new relations with other actors, hence new identities. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 599

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary coalitions vary along territorial-interest and direct-indirect connection axes — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 999; Shared identity underpins commoner formation and collective action. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 133; Group cohesion grows from networked personal bonds, not mere shared categories — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor: Unconditional…, 52

Broader Connections

• Shared identity underpins commoner formation and collective action. #complicates (0.78) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 133
• Group cohesion grows from networked personal bonds, not mere shared categories #contradicts (0.75) — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor, 52