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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... contexts, these books provide rich new empirical findings and push forward boundaries of feminist and politics conceptual and theoretical research. The editors welcome the highest quality international research on these topics and ...
... context? What can be expected from the external transformative power of the EU on an issue like that of LGBT rights, at a time when the EU itself is so evidently grappling with an internal crisis on so many other fields? What does this ...
... 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and ...
... contexts in which these LGBT people live and claim rights? Today, a little over a decade since the first Eastern EU enlargement, we believe it is high time to analyze the impact of this process in the newer member states in Central ...
... context in which it is used, and it can be used in slightly varying form. For example, in their chapter, Kristofferson, Roozendaal, and Poghosyan largely use the acronym 'LGBTI' (the 'I' stands for 'Intersex'), as this is ILGA-Europe's ...