[ARTICLE_2016] QA in Taiwan - RC from the AP (TSR - Accepted version).pdf (328.56 kB)
Queer activism in Taiwan: an emergent rainbow coalition from the assemblage perspective
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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:58 authored by Po-Han LeeA social movement for sexual and gender minorities (the Movement) emerged in Taiwan around the 1990s after the abolition of martial law in 1987. This article, drawing on Deleuze’s assemblage theory, looks at how activists negotiate and compete over constructing the discourses of sexual rights and citizenship in a context of democratic transition. With the recent ‘Renaissance’ of conservatism, which combines Confucianism and Christianity, the Movement has been thus de- and reterritorialised in response, and such a process has brought to the fore a rainbow coalition – a larger composition of assemblage rather than simply a descriptor. Gaining greater leverage and influence on society, the coalition, based on the pursuit of self-determination and self-liberation, has inversely provided soil for a cosmopolitan identity of Taiwaneseness to grow.
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- Published
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- Accepted version
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Sociological ReviewISSN
0038-0261Publisher
SAGEExternal DOI
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4Volume
65Page range
682-698Department affiliated with
- Law Publications
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- Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre Publications
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2017-01-30First Open Access (FOA) Date
2017-01-30First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-01-27Usage metrics
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