Queer activism in Taiwan: An emergent rainbow coalition from the assemblage perspective

A 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 ci...

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Published inThe Sociological review (Keele) Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 682 - 698
Main Author Lee, Po-Han
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Activism
Christianity
Citizenship
Civil rights
Confucianism
Conservatism
Discourses
Identity
Law
Leverage
LGBTQ rights movements
Martial law
Minority groups
Self determination
Social movements
Taiwan
queer activism
assemblage
cosmopolitanism
rainbow coalition
Taiwan
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Summary:A 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.
ISSN:0038-0261
1467-954X
DOI:10.1177/0038026116681441