Queer activism in Taiwan

An emergent rainbow coalition from the assemblage perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID3357087
AuthorsPo-Han Lee (0000-0001-7547-1235, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume65
Issue4
Pages682-698
Publication date2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026116681441
OpenAlexW2581077612
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited36

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

Assemblage (archaeology) · Citizenship · Conservatism · Context (archaeology) · Framing (construction) · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Queer · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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