The emergence of solidarity in collaborative research

Illustrating how the construct of solidarity became an essential feature of the theoretical framework developed in Chapter 1, in this chapter we focus on a cross-case analysis of the relationships and practices of two contrasting collaborative research teams of education researchers. From this study we hypothesize that solidarity is a stratified construct. Furthermore, we discuss our own evolving collaboration in terms of solidarity and describe our attempt to appropriate particular writing practices articulated by one of the research teams.