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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... discrimination law, human rights, comparative constitutional law, law and society. He is an author of a monograph on freedom of speech (Routledge, 2013). Currently he is co-editing a book on memory laws and conducting research for the ...
... of Homosexuality (2003), At the Crossroads of Discrimination (2009), co-author (with A. Švab) of The Unbearable Comfort of Privacy (2005) and co-editor (with J. Takács) of Beyond The Pink Curtain: xii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.
... discrimination legislation as well as the politics surrounding Belgrade Pride. Koen's primary research interests lie within the field of gender and sexuality studies, (sexual) nationalism and European Union politics, with a specific ...
... discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation. [...] When you start treating people differently not because of any harm they are doing to anybody, but because they are different, that's the path whereby freedoms begin to ...
... discrimination and promote human rights, and they may to a large extent have been accepted as such by a substantial segment of the population in many EU member states, but it may be precisely for this reason that opposition to such ...