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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... citizenship in the European Union context. His latest edited volumes include Europe's Justice Deficit? (with Gráinne de Búrca and Andrew Williams, 2015, Hart Publishing, Oxford), EU Citizenship and Federalism: The Role of Rights ...
... citizenship and the politics of reconciliation and democratization. His academic papers have appeared in a wide range of academic books and journals, including The European Journal of Sociology, Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnic and Racial ...
... Citizenship, anti-discrimination, and fundamental rights developments have all contributed to the minimum 'European' standards of LGBT rights protection. Additionally, the chapter explores INTRODUCTION: EU ENLARGEMENT AND LGBT RIGHTS ...
... citizenship mobilizing EU sexual rights' (Belavusau and Kochenov 2016). The second part of the book, Zooming In: Central and Eastern Europe, takes a closer look at the 2004 enlargement wave. It begins by examining the role of ...
... citizenship. Sociology, Online first, pp. 1–16. Ayoub, P. M. (2013). Cooperative transnationalism in contemporary Europe: Europeanization and political opportunities for LGBT mobilization in the European Union. European Political ...