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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... Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans? What is the role of the EU within this larger context? What can be expected from the external transformative power of the EU on an issue like that of LGBT rights, at a time when the EU ...
... Central Eastern Europe and the post-Yugoslav space” at the conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) in Cambridge, and in that same month we brought together a panel with the same title at the ...
... Eastern Enlargement and LGBT Politics: An Ever Gayer Union? 19 Koen Slootmaeckers and Heleen Touquet 3 European Integration and LGBTI Activism: Partners in Realising Change? 45 ... Central and Eastern Europe Nationalism and ix Contents.
... Central and Eastern Europe Nationalism and Homophobia in Central and Eastern Europe Richard C.M. Mole 6 From Pride to Politics: Niche-Party Politics and LGBT Rights in Poland Conor O'Dwyer and Peter Vermeersch 7 Same-Sex Partnership ...
... Central and Eastern Europe Campaign for All Families Civil Initiative for the Family and the Rights of Children Council of Europe Council Working Group on Human Rights Dayton Peace Agreement Albanian Democratic Union for Integration ...