Solidarity across difference depends on enacted confirmatory actions toward a negotiated identity

Evidence

With recognition that shared beliefs and lifestyles cannot be taken for granted—and that social location impacts one’s experiences, perceptions, grievances, motivations, pref- erences, and more (e.g., Beamish & Luebbers, 2009)—there is also a clear appreciation of individual, organizational, and coalitional actions’ importance, particularly in confirming commitments to the negotiated identity and shared principles so as to build trust, cement coalitional identity, and strengthen a sense of solidarity. — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 317

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Offers the operative mechanism the reader is after: not homogenization but repeated public action confirming commitment to a jointly negotiated identity — that is what cements trust and solidarity in non-homogenizing coalitions.
• XREF: connects to: Sector differences shape whether platform workers adopt narrow or broad solidarity identities — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 10; Shared identity underpins commoner formation and collective action. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 133; Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character #contradicts (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595
• Commoning transforms participants’ identities even as it embeds practices of power and difference #expands (0.82) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 15
• Assuming shared identity permits recognizing differences across experience. #qualifies (0.82) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 46
• Identity arises from action and struggle rather than preceding politics #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 121
• Shared identity underpins commoner formation and collective action. #qualifies (0.78) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 133
• Identity politics needs supplementing by wider solidarity-directed struggles #responds-to (0.72)