Abstract
This work explores the international politics and practice of LGBTQ rights, specifically the practice of same-sex marriage, as a constituent of the Taiwanese state’s security regime. Through exploring the discourse around family and marriage and their particular relations to the state’s security, a series of belongings and expulsions that constitute the global progressive neoliberal rights regime entangle “Taiwan” in the globalized relationships of empire. This necessitates a reparative return to line work as a queer method to recover the lives lost to forms of imperialism. This work's data sources include textual analysis of local news reports and media discourse, while Allan Sekula’s Fish Story (1995) and Hsu Yoshen’s Stones on the Shore (2003) figure dominantly in the second chapter. My methods include discourse analysis and photo analysis. By questioning the Taiwanese state’s regulation of marriage and migration, I reveal the Taiwanese nation-state project's contingency on the developmental economies and production of identities, security issues, and incorporation of global discourse. I conclude with some ideas on the future of queerness and the centrality of “Asia” in international security.
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