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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... Nationalism and Homophobia in Central and Eastern Europe Richard C.M. Mole 6 From Pride to Politics: Niche-Party Politics and LGBT Rights in Poland Conor O'Dwyer and Peter Vermeersch 7 Same-Sex Partnership Debate in Slovenia: Between ...
... Nationalism and Europeanisation, 2014–2016. He is the author of We Were Gasping for Air: (Post-) Yugoslav Anti-War Activism and Its Legacy (2012) and co-editor (with Vesna Janković) of Resisting the Evil: (Post-) Yugoslav Anti-War ...
... nationalism, sexualities, migration and diaspora. He has a theoretical interest in discourse—particularly the post-structuralist discourse theories of Laclau and Mouffe—and a regional interest in Russia, Poland and the Baltic states ...
... nationalism and European Union politics, with a specific interest in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) topics. His work has been published in, amongst others, Politics and the Journal of Homosexuality. Safia Swimelar is ...
... Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Europe-Asia Studies and other journals. Her current work focuses on gender politics and sexual violence in conflict and post-traumatic mobilization. Peter Vermeersch ...