Homonationalism as a Site of Contestation and Transformation

Li, Wen; Zhang, Charlie Yi

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“…However, such equivalences overlook the geopolitical tension of the region in a realist sense and the material-structural reality of the more powerful PRC's military threat and aggression towards Taiwan, Hong Kong, and neighboring countries. The wholesale application of the homonationalism critique in Sinophone societies also risks flattening geopolitical comparisons based on the cultural dichotomy of West (the US) vs. East (China), a dichotomy which positions Taiwan as caught between two great powers without its own agency or history (Liu and Zhang 2022). Hence, the Sinophone critique, is not about excluding China but rather discussing China differently, as a geopolitical concern, a power center in the region, a culturally colonial force, and a comparative site.…”

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The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan

Liu,

2024

Sexualities

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Hong Kong and Taiwan, two Sinophone societies peripheral to continental China, have divergent colonial pasts and distinct cultures. Yet, their fates have been increasingly intertwined since the rise of China in the global economy. We propose the geopolitics of queer archives to trace minor–minor exchanges of queer knowledge and activism that are neither officially recognized by the state nor mapped into mainstream discussions of international relations. Through a conjunctural analysis of queer scholarship in Hong Kong and Taiwan since the 1980s, we contest the notion of Chineseness in shaping the knowledge of queer sexualities and argue that a wholesale recycling of postcolonial critique on these two societies’ resistance to China risk reproducing US-centrism.

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The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan

Liu,

2024

Sexualities

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“…According to Kao (2021), the fixation on abridging state intervention can be counterproductive in the battle for equal rights in Taiwan as the government provides the only means for institutional protection. Instead of a linear relationship of being co-opted or assimilated by a singular state power, queer advocacy in Sinophone contexts like Taiwan carves out resistance spaces within and among national sovereignties, which amounts to a kind of transnationalism (Liu and Zhang, 2022). The interpretative framework of queer Asia adds a dimension to the dialogic framing of marriage equality as regional history and geopolitics render the discourses around marriage, state, sex, and sexuality contested.…”

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Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement

Wang,

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2023

Media, Culture & Society

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Dialogic framing means that the frames are constructed through interaction among multiple parties in a discursive system with socio-cultural specificities. The meaning of a frame is articulated through such dialogic interaction and under constant contestation. We used the marriage equality movement in Taiwan as a case study and demonstrated how dialogic framing could advance the understanding of framing in the digital mobilization of collective actions. Analyzing Facebook posts by opposing advocacy groups, we identified “collective identity” and “rights” as two dominant frames. Marriage equality activists framed legalizing same-sex marriage as a testament to the democratic progress of Taiwan and a validation of gay and lesbian people’s right of love. The countermovement challenged this framing by arguing that equalizing gay love to heterosexual marital love violated the civil rights of the silent majority. The queer critique of marriage as state-sanctioned regulation of sexual citizenship and the very state power being critiqued are also constitutive of the dialogic framing of collective actions for or against same-sex marriage on social media.

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Seeing China differently: National contestation in Taiwan's LGBTQ (tongzhi) movement

Chen-Dedman

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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The field of queer/sexuality studies in Taiwan was pioneered in the 1990s by a group of mainly secondgeneration descendants of Chinese civil war migrants (waishengren) who have problematised and disparaged the post-martial law Taiwanisation of identity and politics. Despite the seminal nature of their 'sex positive' work that challenged many cultural orthodoxies, subsequent sociopolitical developments strengthening civil society, visibility of and human rights protections for tongzhi (LGBTQ) citizens, the consolidation of Taiwanese identity, and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) acceleration of revanchist hostility towards Taiwan over the past two decades have coalesced to forge unequivocal rifts between them and a new generation of Taiwanese sexuality scholars and activists. This rupture highlights how "Taiwan's sex/gender/sexualities knowledge production and reproduction have long been intertwined with the [contentious] politics of nationhood, nation-building, and nationalism" (Kao, 2019). In probing these interstices, this article proposes a decolonial approach to tongzhi identity politics in Taiwan.

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Homonationalism as a Site of Contestation and Transformation

Cited by 15 publications

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The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan

The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan

Marry or not for democracy and love: Dialogic framing in the Taiwan marriage equality movement and countermovement

Seeing China differently: National contestation in Taiwan's LGBTQ (tongzhi) movement

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