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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... CHAPTER 1 Introduction: EU Enlargement and LGBT Rights—Beyond Symbolism? Koen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet, and Peter Vermeersch Over the last decade, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)1 people have become an ...
... chapters, they analyze such issues 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 ...
... chapters, insights from the literature on 'Europeanization via Enlargement' are a central theme throughout the book.4 Europeanization' is often conceptualized as ... chapter by INTRODUCTION: EU ENLARGEMENT AND LGBT RIGHTS—BEYOND SYMBOLISM? 5.
... chapter by Kristofferson, Roozendaal and Poghosyan 2016) and the role of changes in domestic political configurations (see, e.g., the chapters by Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016; and O'Dwyer and Vermeersch 2016), reveal the hurdle of ...