Murder, intrigue, suspense!

(Actually, just an online community of very nice people).

Engagement, imagination, and alignment

Ren et al's common bond/common identity framework is basically an imagination form of belonging (in Wenger's terms). To imagine the set of people all having a certain set of characteristics with things in common.

Alignment means you take actions with others to advance the interests of the collective. You are aligned with a particular agenda (a task force?) but may not think of having common characteristics.

"The work of..." sections starting on p. 184 as a good place to clear up the confusion of the chapter. How does the work of creating identity through belonging (through identity and alignment) appear in Cool Running?

here it is. 

My Paper

Mutually constitutable argument
You have to be able to reference the idea of community if you wish to talk about identity issues for individuals.

Likewise, if you're going to talk about community identity, you need to talk about the individual identities that compose those communities.

Identity does not exist just through individual declaration -- there must be a community that recognizes that identity (see Yong-Mi's diagram). In interactions with communities, only parts of your identity is revealed to each community

Here it is: