Guaranteeing autonomous expression of diverse identities can unify rather than fragment a movement.
Evidence
Claeys and Duncan (2019), for instance, illustrate how the global food sovereignty movement’s commitment to guarantee the autonomous expression of diverse identities and perspectives within the convergence space did not fragment the movement, but rather enabled it to come together (see also Flesher‐Fominaya, 2010b). — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 234
Categorization
- XREF: A concrete empirical answer to the reading question: protective solidarity that is explicitly non-homogenizing yet cohesive. Compare against homogenizing union/party models. — connects to: Guaranteeing space for diverse identities can unite rather than fragment a movement.; Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 363; Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not (+10 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The counterintuitive core of the whole project — that safe space for difference is what enables convergence — is dense enough to sit with.
Broader Connections
- Guaranteeing space for diverse identities can unite rather than fragment a movement.
#corroborates(1.00) - The same identity need can drive either reconciliation or conflict depending on expression.
#corroborates(0.85) — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations, 127 - Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously.
#complicates(0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363 - Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not
#complicates(0.80) - Identity is defined oppositionally, against those one is not.
#complicates(0.78) - Power constitutes identities rather than acting between pre-formed ones.
#complicates(0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 97 - Identity construction is an exercise of power through exclusion
#complicates(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 371 - Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other
#complicates(0.76) - Modern identity is constituted through the exclusion of its own opposite
#complicates(0.76) - Identity is constituted through splitting and an interiorized Other, not pure difference.
#complicates(0.76) - Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another
#complicates(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 293 - Identity is transformed by political action, not a precondition of it
#complicates(0.73) - Contextual diversity alone cannot shape identity without individuals subjectively experiencing it.
#qualifies(0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 553