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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... countries acceded? What changed? In this book, with the aid of our contributors, we seek to provide some answers ... candidate member states. We brought together a group of authors who not only were doing excellent research on these and ...
... candidate country's endorsement of European norms—yet such symbolic politics stands in stark contrast to the amount of actual EU power and EU legislation in this field. The EU's acquis on LGBT rights is rather limited. The aim of this ...
... countries, see the chapter by Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016; or that by O'Dwyer and Vermeersch 2016). The book also ... candidate countries, through the use of conditionality, to what Kulpa (2014) has called a 'leveraged pedagogy' (Kulpa ...
... candidate countries in the Western Balkans. Matthias Kristofferson, Björn Roozendaal, and Lilit Poghosyan complement Slootmaeckers and Touquet's account by writing from the perspective of ILGA-Europe, a pan-European umbrella ...
... country. In his chapter (Chap. 9), Bojan Bilić examines the symbolic politics of the Belgrade Pride parade, and asks ... candidate countries. The last chapter of the book, by Erwan Fouéré, offers a unique insider perspective on the place ...