Divergent interests can still yield genuine political coalitions between unequal groups

Evidence

Certainly, as Miranda Joseph (2002) has argued so well, we must remain alert here to the risks of fetishizing community through universal framings that adhere either to celebratory discourses of a unitary identity or to empty celebrations of heterogeneity. New subaltern solidarities such as those between anxious students, K-­poppers, and the Black Lives Matter movement or the unwieldy alliances between climate-­change activists and the rural anti-­fuel-­tax movement, make no claims to the “commons” of a fabled past (from which traditionally marginalized social groups were excluded). In that sense, counter-­speculative movements are not just symptomatic of our moment of flux but also constitutive of it. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 559 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Thus, the deeper the “regime divide,” the higher the perceived costs of cooperation. As a result, ideological proximity could even act as an obstacle to coalition formation when the reputation of the formateur or the dominant party in the coalition would adversely affect the electoral support of its potential coalition partners. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1244 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Another two-dimensional classification clarifies the variation involved. One dimension runs from strictly territorial actors to those organized around interests that span multiple territories. At one end of the continuum, we find long-established local communities; at the other, occupational groups and trade diasporas. The other dimension runs from actors that drew from previously established direct connections to those brought into a revolutionary coalition through indirect connections. The dimension’s direct end includes kinship groups that maintain continuous connections, while the indirect end includes armies in which individual fighting units remain segregated from each other and the main connections run through senior officers. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 999 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Interracial women’s missions offered real but limited hope against racial caste. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 557; Ideological proximity could hinder rather than help coalition formation — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1244; New political solidarities form across unlikely groups without utopian claims — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 559 (+3 more)

Related

• New political solidarities form across unlikely groups without utopian claims (similarity 0.86)
• Ideological proximity could hinder rather than help coalition formation (similarity 0.82)
• Left solidarity requires heterogeneous coalition rather than unity or horizontalism (similarity 0.81)
• Coalitions across divides work better decentralized, prioritizing local knowledge and autonomy. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• New political solidarities form across unlikely groups without utopian claims #corroborates (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 559
• Ideological proximity could hinder rather than help coalition formation #qualifies (0.82) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1244
• Revolutionary coalitions vary along territorial-interest and direct-indirect connection axes #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 999
• Political unity is strengthened rather than weakened by divergent attentions #corroborates (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 347