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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... Politics series celebrates its 5th anniversary at the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) in June 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden. The original idea for the book series was envisioned by the series editors Johanna Kantola and ...
... EU enlargement, democracy and the politics of sexual orientation and gender identity,” which we were so lucky to be able to organize on the premises of the European Parliament (EP) and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science ...
... politics' (2013) and 'The individualisation of responsibility and school achievement' (2013). Erwan Fouéré born in 1946 of Irish nationality, joined the Centre for European Policy Studies as an Associate Senior Research Fellow in 2013 ...
... 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 ...
... politics surrounding Belgrade Pride. Koen's primary research interests lie within the field of gender and sexuality studies, (sexual) nationalism and European Union politics, with a specific interest in lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...