The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and PrejudiceKoen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet, Peter Vermeersch Springer, 2016 M06 23 - 238 pages This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings — arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn ‘sexual others’ into ‘national others,’ the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights.
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... Björn van Roozendaal, and Lilit Poghosyan 4 Federalizing Legal Opportunities for LGBT Movements in the Growing EU 69 Uladzislau Belavusau and Dimitry Kochenov Part II Zooming in: Central and Eastern Europe Nationalism and ix Contents.
... Case of Macedonia: A Personal Insight of a Former Head of the EU Delegation in Macedonia Erwan Fouéré Index 97 5 99 123 147 173 175 203 221 233 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Uladzislau Belavusau is assistant professor of EU x CONTENTS.
... Belavusau is assistant professor of EU Law at the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has previously taught at the law faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2011–2015). He holds a ...
... Belavusau and Dimitry Kochenov, takes a legal perspective and illustrates how the how quasifederal elements embedded in EU law (Beaud 2007; Schütze 2009), on the one hand, have created opportunities for mobilizing transnational LGBT ...
... Belavusau and Kochenov are able to show that legal opportunities in the EU are providing an unprecedented impetus for Central European activists. Their example shows the 'value of pragmatic cause litigation [...] for the benefit of a ...