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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... mobilizations in the Western Balkans, and Koen Slootmaeckers, who had begun to work on sexualities and LGBT issues, were joined in their discussions by Peter Vermeersch, a specialist in Eastern European affairs and Europeanization. We ...
... the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). She has published works about post-ethnic mobilization and nationalism in BosniaHerzegovina and reconciliation in the Western Balkans in Nationalism and Ethnic xiv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.
... mobilization. Peter Vermeersch is a professor of social science and a writer of literary non-fiction. He has a background in Eastern European Studies and is affiliated with the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium, where he is ...
... mobilization and advocacy by LGBT rights activists from across the continent have helped to position LGBT rights as ... mobilizing transnational LGBT litigation and, on the other hand, have steadily Europeanized the discourse on LGBT ...
... 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 nationalism in LGBT ...