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View article: Co-learning in crisis: A comparative analysis of digital preparedness during COVID-19 in Taiwan and the United Kingdom
Co-learning in crisis: A comparative analysis of digital preparedness during COVID-19 in Taiwan and the United Kingdom Open
This article provides a comparative analysis of digital interventions implemented in Taiwan and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine how national contexts shaped the rollout and reception of these technologies. Our analysis chall…
Identifying Success Factors for Optimizing COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Indigenous Populations in Taiwan: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Survey Open
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated economies and strained health care systems worldwide. Vaccination is crucial for outbreak control, but disparities persist between and within countries. In Taiwan, certain indigenous regions …
View article: A population-based study of social demographic factors, associated diseases, and herpes zoster ophthalmicus in Taiwan
A population-based study of social demographic factors, associated diseases, and herpes zoster ophthalmicus in Taiwan Open
Introduction Herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) occurs due to the reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and is characterized by the involvement of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. While this pathophysiology is wel…
Doing Rights, Making Citizens Open
How does the right to education inform respect for citizenship rights, where school education becomes a site of contestation over democracy? Drawing on a review of all documents produced during international reviews of Taiwan’s implementat…
The geopolitics of disease prevention: Military analogies against COVID-19 in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and beyond Open
Military metaphors have been used intensively and excessively against the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide since its outbreak in 2020. In this article, we consider “war” and “military” analogies as keywords to approach the pandemic culture by e…
Crip-queer intimacy, alliance and activism: towards holistic sexuality education in Taiwan Open
This study investigates the significance of sexuality education for individuals with disabilities in Taiwan. It highlights the importance of understanding sexuality as a fundamental aspect of identity, encompassing intimate relationships a…
From security to solidarity: The normative foundation of a global pandemic treaty Open
“We are all in this together”. Political leaders, research communities, and civil society organisations have often made this statement during the COVID-pandemic in their calls for global and social solidarity. The statement has two layers …
Introduction Open
This book is the product of an international and interdisciplinary conference that was held at the University of Sussex, UK, in 2018. The primary aim of the conference was to have a closer look at the reasons and impacts of numerous proble…
Conclusion Open
This book started off its analysis with the promise of finding out whether states, which were handled by the contributors, present similarities or differences in the way that they fail in achieving gender equality. As demonstrated in each …
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies Open
Review of the book "Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies" by Jieyu Liu and Junko Yamashita.
The politics of evidence: ‘Doing nothing’ about LGBT health inequities by the WHO Open
How is ‘nothing’ produced and justified, and how is it functioning? Here, I will take a multilateral debate in the World Health Organisation (WHO) over the issues regarding health inequities experienced by sexual and gender minorities as a…
First in Asia, now what? Taiwan and marriage quasi-equality Open
On 24 May 2017, the Council of Grand Justices of the Judicial Yuan in Taiwan declared its famous Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 748, ruling that the non-recognition of same-sex marriage in law was unconstitutional. Thereafter, a huge deb…
How is ‘nothing’ produced and justified? International inaction in the face of the health disparities of sexual and gender minorities Open
This work considers ‘nothing’ and its effect upon the reproduction of ignorance and epistemic exclusion, by interrogating a decision to ‘do nothing’ made by the World Health Organisation (WHO). As a functional international organisation, i…
Against political circumvention: Taiwan’s innovative approach to internalising international human rights Open
Since 2017, Taiwan has been rejected ‘again’ from participating in the World Health Assembly as an Observer, and this has led to a series of protests from both Taiwanese government and civil society with regard to the hijacking of health r…
After the storm, comes a calm? The compromised ‘Asia’s first’ same-sex marriage Open
This article outlines the socio-legal development of marriage equality movement in Taiwan. On 17 May 2019, also an International Day Against Homophobia, members of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Parliament) debated on and eventually passed the…
The struggle for marriage equality and intimate citizenship: a field occupied by multiple hegemonic discourses Open
On 24 May 2017, the ROC Constitutional Court issued the J.Y. Interpretation No. 748, declaring part of Taiwan’s Civil Code, which prohibits same-sex marriage, unconstitutional. Suddenly, it seems that the marriage equality campaign has won…
Asking ‘what it does’ rather than ‘what it is’: the invisibility and opportunity of Taiwan’s role on the global health stage Open
In 2017, some twenty Taiwanese students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds formed a study group: medicine, epidemiology, law, sociology, politics, and geography. Its overall objective is to understand better what has been referred to as…
Sexuality, health and relationship education: A perspective of ‘children as rights-holders’ Open
For the ongoing debate on the contents of gender equity education concerning whether or not to include relationship and sexuality education (RSE), this paper is responding to an urgent call to promote the understanding of ‘emotions’ in and…
Undoing sovereignty/identity, queering the ‘international’: the politics of law Open
Recently the Yogyakarta Principles have celebrated their tenth anniversary; there has been widening acceptance across international organisations and increasingly corresponding state practices, and still, there is a need for a wider apprec…
The demagogies of ‘Lack’: The WHO’s ambivalence to the right to health of LGBT people Open
In May 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat produced its first-ever report regarding health issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in preparation for an agenda item of the 2013 WHO Executi…
‘Amo, ergo (non) sum?’: On the inevitable incommensurability of loves Open
‘Love’ is the concept that almost every philosopher cannot prevent, but the more dimensions are explored and figured, the more unsettled the idea is. Academic attention has been paid to the positive element of love, such as need, belonging…
The paradox of international law as the law of nations: the (re)production of refugee and statelessness Open
Considering the refugee crisis and statelessness around the world particularly in the Asian context, this article argues that, by interrogating the fundamental premise of international law as ‘the law of nations’, the repeated affirmation …
Decolonising and queering praxis: the unanswerable questions for ‘Queer Asia' Open
What does it mean by putting ‘Queer’ and ‘Asia’ together? This question –complicated by several concepts – arose many times at occasions of the Queer Asia 2017. Left with series of unanswerable questions, such as the presumption of nation/…
Beyond the text: ‘Global’ SOGI rights movement versus ‘International’ human rights law Open
Under international human rights law, multilateral state-centric treaties, agreed upon and acceded to by states that are represented by their governments, are greatly relied on as the most significant instruments in dealing with, paradoxic…
Queer ‘East Asia’ as an assemblage of power, alterity, and postcolonial affect: an action note Open
This paper looks at how queer politics emerge in East Asia, a context where globalised LGBT rights discourse and activism has provoked state-sponsored queerphobia. This paper applies Deleuzian assemblage theory to analysing the way in whic…
Between criminality and addiction: multiple penumbrae of global anti-drug normativity Open
The global War on Drugs has successfully constructed the ‘anti-drug normativity’ in international law and domestic policies. Lately, drug problems and related law enforcement provoke controversies both in Taiwan and the Philippines – from …