# Solidarity

> Solidarity is mapped as the field: it changes the capacity to command, coordinate, persuade, refuse, remember, or endure.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:deep-forces:solidarity` |
| Family | Deep Political Forces |
| Domain | Power |
| Kind | force |
| Archetypal function | The Field |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Solidarity belongs to the **Deep Political Forces** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Solidarity changes the capacity to command, coordinate, persuade, refuse, remember, or endure, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Solidarity, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Field.** Solidarity is mapped as the field: it changes the capacity to command, coordinate, persuade, refuse, remember, or endure.

## Gift

makes a hidden source of political motion visible; through Solidarity, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

becomes an abstraction that conceals who bears costs; Solidarity can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Solidarity to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Field enters through Solidarity. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Solidarity becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**role.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Solidarity; another player names a countermove. Initiative 5.

## Relationships

- **mobilizes — Coercion:** Coercion mobilizes Solidarity by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Fear:** Solidarity distributes costs to Fear by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **depends on — Notice and Comment:** Solidarity depends on Notice and Comment by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Marriage Equality:** Marriage Equality enables Solidarity by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Solidarity from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Solidarity is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Solidarity: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.
- [V-Dem Dataset and Codebook](https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/) — V-Dem Institute, 2026. Comparative measurement of democratic institutions; indicators remain model-based measures.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
