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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... social movements, Europeanization and institutionalism, governance and norms, policies, and political institutions. Set in European, US and Latin American contexts, these books provide rich new empirical findings and push forward ...
... social movements and post-ethnic 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 ...
... Social Psychology, Ethnicity and Health, Slavonic and East European Review, Sexualities, Journal of Baltic Studies ... movements in the region. He has been an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard ...
... social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. In their chapters, they analyze such issues as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn 'sexual others' into 'national others', the actions and rhetoric of church actors as ...
... social and political purposes—an observation that will be corroborated in several of the remaining chapters of the ... movements and party politics in each country, and its consequences for the adoption of same-sex union legislation ...