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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... 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 itself is so evidently grappling with an internal crisis on so many other ...
... European Union institutions. He was the first to assume joint responsibilities of EU Special Representative and Head of Delegation in the EU External Service when he was appointed in this double capacity in Macedonia (2005), where he ...
... European Union: Identity, Discourse and Power in the PostCommunist Transition of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, his edited volume Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics, and in articles and reviews in Nations and ...
... European Union (EU). Take, for example, the recent developments in Russia and Ukraine. Since 2012, Russia has engaged in 'a conscious and consolidated effort to build a “sexual sovereignty” of the nation' (Makarychev and Medvedev 2015 ...
... EU power and EU legislation in this field. The EU's acquis on LGBT rights is rather limited. The aim of this book, therefore, is to disentangle the symbolism from the actual advances on the ground and to more precisely determine the ...