Michelle I. Gawerc — Coalition-building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality

Yield

10 of 447 paragraphs kept (2.2%). Target: 35%+ — ⚠️ BELOW target.

Thesis

Transnational movement organizations sustain dispersed coalitions by brokering communication and shared identity. · ch. 0

Argument

1. Solidarity means mutual recognition of belonging, forged through struggle. — ch. 0
2. Coalitions across divides work better decentralized, prioritizing local knowledge and autonomy. — ch. 1
3. Guaranteeing autonomous expression of diverse identities can unify rather than fragment a movement. — ch. 1
4. Event coalitions can achieve political goals while modulating internal difference and inequality — ch. 1
5. Solidarity across difference depends on enacted confirmatory actions toward a negotiated identity — ch. 1
6. Bridge-builders and personal ties let coalitions adjust practices to partners’ legitimacy needs — ch. 1
7. Real inclusion in coalitions paradoxically requires marginalized groups to have separate space. — ch. 1 └─ #builds-on → Coalition members must freely voice distinct identities and ideologies to build trust.
8. Coalition members must freely voice distinct identities and ideologies to build trust. — ch. 1
9. Coalitions across difference inevitably conflict and need active management to endure — ch. 1

Annotation Roundup

Question

• Real inclusion in coalitions paradoxically requires marginalized groups to have separate space. — Directly tests the reader’s core question: can solidarity across difference hold without flattening internal heterogeneity? This passage suggests separation inside solidarity is a mechanism, not a failure. Xref
• Solidarity means mutual recognition of belonging, forged through struggle. — The recognition-based view of solidarity resonates with the reader’s interest in non-homogenizing bonds: solidarity here is recognition of belonging, not erasure of difference.
• Real inclusion in coalitions paradoxically requires marginalized groups to have separate space. — Connects to literature on caucuses in social movements and ‘separate organizing’ within feminist/anti-racist coalitions—echoes of black feminist autonomous organizing within second-wave movements.
• Guaranteeing autonomous expression of diverse identities can unify rather than fragment a movement. — A concrete empirical answer to the reading question: protective solidarity that is explicitly non-homogenizing yet cohesive. Compare against homogenizing union/party models.
• Coalition members must freely voice distinct identities and ideologies to build trust. — Speaks to the tension the reader flags between solidarity’s cohesion and members’ need for differentiated self-expression; echoes ‘strong-black-woman’ style identity claims being held in tension with collective unity.
• Bridge-builders and personal ties let coalitions adjust practices to partners’ legitimacy needs — Directly supports the reading purpose — protective solidarity that adapts to rather than erases difference; Chazan’s Raging Grannies toning down costumes to respect indigenous partners parallels how movements negotiate self-presentation. Define
• Solidarity means mutual recognition of belonging, forged through struggle. — Crisply distinguishes coalition (instrumental cooperation on a common goal) from solidarity (mutual recognition of shared belonging), and stresses solidarity as achieved through struggle rather than given.