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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... Kuhar and Metka Mencin Čeplak Part III Close-ups of the Western Balkans 8 9 10 The Struggle for Visibility and Equality: Bosnian LGBT Rights Safia Swimelar Whose Pride? LGBT 'Community' and the Organization of Pride Parades in Serbia ...
... Kuhar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology) and researcher at the Peace Institute, Ljubljana. His research topics include GLBT/queer topics, intolerance and ...
... Kuhar 2011, 2012; Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016). These horizontal processes emphasize transnational (activist) cooperation and policy transfer (or cross-loading) via state-to-state learning and informal policy networks (Börzel and Risse ...
... Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016; or that by O'Dwyer and Vermeersch 2016). The book also contributes to the emerging research agenda on LGBT rights in the enlargement process (see e.g. Ayoub 2014, 2015; Kahlina 2015; O'Dwyer 2010, 2012; O ...
... Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016; O'Dwyer and Vermeersch 2016) show how politicians employ homophobic political rhetoric to oppose EU integration.5 In order to defend the 'traditional' culture of their country from Western (EU) influence ...