Beyond Equality

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Main Author: Cardoso, Daniel
Publication Date: 2025
Other Authors: Klesse, Christian
Format: Article
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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spelling Beyond EqualityNon-Monogamy and the Necropolitics of MarriageMarriageMarriage equalityConsensual non-monogamyLGBTQ+ politicsBiopoliticsNecropoliticsColonialismGlobal SouthSexual citizenshipIntimate citizenshipUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020‘Marriage equality’ has been a widely used slogan and mobilizing concept for LGBTQ+ rights’ movements across the globe striving for formal recognition for ‘same-sex’ or ‘same-gender’ marriages. In this article, we critically interrogate the terminology and political rationality that have given shape to ‘marriage equality’ campaigns. We demonstrate the structural erasure of non-monogamous relations and populations from the changes hoped for and envisioned in these mobilizations. The lack of any genuine and substantial concern with consensual non-monogamies (CNMs) from most of the literature in the field highlights the close entanglement of marriage with monogamy. As a result, ideas are scarce about how meaningful and adequate legal recognition and social policy provisions for a wide range of intimate, sexual, familial, and/or caring bonds or constellations on the CNM continuum could look like. We argue that the critique of the mononormativity inherent to marriage is fundamental to understanding the role of this in the 21st century. We identify the roots of the mononormativity of marriage in its governmental role as a necropolitical and biopolitical technology, evidenced by its ‘civilizing’ function in white settler colonial projects. Because of this, an expansion of the call for equality to include non-monogamous populations does not resolve but rather aggravates the problem. We conclude that any truly queer politics of CNM consequently needs to be anti-marriage.Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação (DCC)RUNCardoso, DanielKlesse, Christian2025-05-07T21:34:28Z2025-04-102025-04-10T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article28application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/182819eng2076-0760PURE: 115128214https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040233info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2025-05-19T01:40:06Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/182819Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-29T07:13:50.853276Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Beyond Equality
Non-Monogamy and the Necropolitics of Marriage
title Beyond Equality
spellingShingle Beyond Equality
Cardoso, Daniel
Marriage
Marriage equality
Consensual non-monogamy
LGBTQ+ politics
Biopolitics
Necropolitics
Colonialism
Global South
Sexual citizenship
Intimate citizenship
title_short Beyond Equality
title_full Beyond Equality
title_fullStr Beyond Equality
title_full_unstemmed Beyond Equality
title_sort Beyond Equality
author Cardoso, Daniel
author_facet Cardoso, Daniel
Klesse, Christian
author_role author
author2 Klesse, Christian
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)
Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação (DCC)
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cardoso, Daniel
Klesse, Christian
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Marriage
Marriage equality
Consensual non-monogamy
LGBTQ+ politics
Biopolitics
Necropolitics
Colonialism
Global South
Sexual citizenship
Intimate citizenship
topic Marriage
Marriage equality
Consensual non-monogamy
LGBTQ+ politics
Biopolitics
Necropolitics
Colonialism
Global South
Sexual citizenship
Intimate citizenship
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