Beyond Equality – Nonmonogamy and the Necropolitics of Marriage

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dc.contributor.authorCardoso, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorKlesse, Christian
dc.contributor.institutionCICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-14T14:25:01Z
dc.date.available2025-04-14T14:25:01Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.descriptionPublisher Copyright: © 2025 by the authors.
dc.description.abstract‘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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the European Commission through a grant within the MSCA-IF-EF-ST Funding Scheme (grant number 845889).
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dc.identifier.citationCardoso, D & Klesse, C 2025, 'Beyond Equality – Nonmonogamy and the Necropolitics of Marriage', Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4, 233. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040233
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040233
dc.identifier.issn2076-0760
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10437/15290
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105003487566
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Sciences
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.subjectMARRIAGE
dc.subjectEQUALITY
dc.subjectNONMONOGAMY
dc.subjectLGBTQI+
dc.subjectPOLITICS
dc.subjectCOLONIALISM
dc.subjectCITIZENSHIP
dc.subjectCASAMENTO
dc.subjectIGUALDADE
dc.subjectNÃO-MONOGAMIA
dc.subjectLGBTQI+
dc.subjectPOLÍTICA
dc.subjectCOLONIALISMO
dc.subjectCIDADANIA
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.subjectSDG 1 - No Poverty
dc.subjectCICANT - Artigos de Revistas Internacionais com Arbitragem Científica
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