Sexuality & Culture DOI 10.1007/s12119-016-9398-2 ORIGINAL PAPER Beyond Inclusion: Non-monogamies and the Borders of Citizenship Pablo Pe´rez Navarro1 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 Abstract This paper aims to understand the extent to which monogamy operates not only as a constitutive element of marriage-like institutions but also as a meta- judicial source of frequently overlooked forms of state violence. Drawing on the case of the Spanish law, it explores the privilege-driven logic that regulates the access to a complex set of economic benefits and legal protections, including immigration related rights, in order to show the extent to which monogamy is part of the grounding structure of an exclusionary constitutional citizenship. In addition, drawing on semi-structured interviews held with Spanish poly activists and bio- graphical interviews held with LGBTQ non-monogamous people, it offers a view of non-monogamous communities as paramount spaces of resistance when it comes to re-imagining the relationship between the state and the intimate realm, beyond the mere inclusion of poly and other non-monogamous intimate relationships in certain pieces of legislation. Keywords Non-monogamies Á Polyamory Á Law Á LGBTQ Á Citizenship I’m not included in most legislation these days, but me and my people, we’re the ones they’d want to legislate against. Kate Bornstein The following discussion results from three intersecting lines of inquiry. The first, drawing on the case of Spanish law, aims to understand the extent to which & Pablo Pe´rez Navarro
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