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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... role of the EU within this larger 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 ...
... role of the individual in shaping and reshaping legal orders, focusing on minority rights and citizenship in the European Union context. His latest edited volumes include Europe's Justice Deficit? (with Gráinne de Búrca and Andrew ...
... role of images in teaching and understanding human rights issues. Safia has published articles in the International Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Quarterly, Ethnopolitics and International Studies Quarterly. Her current research ...
... roles have included researcher-in-residence at the OSCE Secretariat in Prague and a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2007–2008). Vermeersch's research and writing covers topics ...
... role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights. The chapters offer the reader insight into emerging Europe-wide activism (Have activists been able to utilize the new European ...