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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... Poland Conor O'Dwyer and Peter Vermeersch 7 Same-Sex Partnership Debate in Slovenia: Between Declarative Support and Lack of Political Will Roman Kuhar and Metka Mencin Čeplak Part III Close-ups of the Western Balkans 8 9 10 The ...
... Poland and the Baltic states. His research on the discursive constructions of identities has found expression in his monograph The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union: Identity, Discourse and Power in the ...
... Poland, the Kaczyński government declared that it needed to prevent the 'aggressive promotion of homosexuality' because it felt that 'although Poland may have joined the EU, they will have none of the “loose” attitudes toward sex ...
... Poland and Slovenia, respectively, examining the role of the EU in the political debate around the topic. The conversation between the two chapters cannot go unnoticed by the reader. Not only do both chapters focus on a similar topic ...
... Poland over the last decade. Despite the distinct lack of a broader social acceptance of homosexuality in this post-communist country, registered partnerships became an issue of political debate. O'Dwyer and Vermeersch identify two key ...