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Fear of Disconnecting: Global Health Imaginations and the Transformations of the Taiwanese State

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  • Tseng Po-Chia

    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 61801-3028, IL, USA)

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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.

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  • Tseng Po-Chia, 2021. "Fear of Disconnecting: Global Health Imaginations and the Transformations of the Taiwanese State," New Global Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 15(2-3), pages 145-163, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:15:y:2021:i:2-3:p:145-163:n:11
    DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2020-0033
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