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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... Paternotte 2014). In this alternative model, Russia promotes 'traditional values' and seeks to defend 'authentic' national cultures, whilst resisting democratic and 'modern' values imposed from abroad. LGBT rights in this model are a ...
... Paternotte and Kollman (2013) have studied the policy convergence of same-sex union legislation in the Western European countries, emphasizing the role of international norm diffusion and transnational networks (for an analysis of same ...
... that relates to such categories. Whilst 'gay and lesbian', along with the acronym LGBT (and sometimes LGBTI to include 'intersex'), are now commonplace terms (Paternotte INTRODUCTION: EU ENLARGEMENT AND LGBT RIGHTS—BEYOND SYMBOLISM? 7.
... (Paternotte and Tremblay 2015), there are authors who prefer to place the topic under the rubric of 'sexual orientation and gender identity' (SOGI) (see e.g. Lennox and Waites 2013), or simply prefer to use the term 'gay'. In the title ...
... Paternotte, D. (Eds.) (2014). LGBT activism and the making of Europe: A rainbow Europe? Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. Beaud, O. (2007). Théorie de la federation. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Belavusau, U ...