Abstract
Abstract Global health scholarship concerning AIDS governance often regards the global either as products of translocal connections or as external forces that initiate local restructurings. As a state without a membership in major global organizations, Taiwan alternatively presents a case for conceiving of global health as grounded, competing imaginations which serve as the foundation both for a symbolic pursuit of Taiwan’s global membership and for the transformations of the Taiwanese state. Building on a global ethnography perspective, this study explores the idea of in-pursuit-of-globality nationalism by examining three AIDS projects in Taiwan that configured global and national imaginations simultaneously. It particularly looks into how sexuality and race became sites of transformative struggles in those projects, arguing that Taiwan’s marginality is not only a product of global geopolitics but also a standpoint on which multiple globalities are imagined and (re)produced. As such, this study contributes to global health scholarship by rejecting a monolithic view of the global and the national and by centering racial and sexual imaginations in processes of globalization.
Highlights
Imagining Global Health from the MarginsAs the pandemic-inflicted situation has demonstrated, globalization has changed the ways in which people experience and respond to public health crises
It looks into and contrasts three distinct AIDS projects in Taiwan, assessing how scales beyond the national are constructed in these projects and how these constructions are implicated in shifting configurations of the Taiwanese state
This study draws on archival research, discourse analysis, and in-depth interviews to trace the transformations of AIDS governance in Taiwan and to unpack the projects of global imagination that contributed to the transformations
Summary
As the pandemic-inflicted situation has demonstrated, globalization has changed the ways in which people experience and respond to public health crises. This study examines the ways in which Taiwan’s health authority and AIDS advocates imagine global health, articulate nationhood, and facilitate changes in state practices, given the absence of Taiwan’s connection with the UN, the WHO, and other global health agencies. It looks into and contrasts three distinct AIDS projects in Taiwan, assessing how scales beyond the national are constructed in these projects and how these constructions are implicated in shifting configurations of the Taiwanese state. This study reveals what I call in-pursuit-of-globality nationalism – a nationalism asserted through a pursuit of a way of being part of the globe – in Taiwan, and underscores the multiplicity of globalities engendered from below
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