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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... 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 is a professor of ...
... European Union (EU). Take, for example, the recent developments in Russia and Ukraine. Since 2012, Russia has engaged in 'a conscious and consolidated effort to build a “sexual sovereignty” of the nation' (Makarychev and Medvedev 2015 ...
... European norms—yet such symbolic politics stands in stark contrast to the amount of actual EU power and EU legislation in this field. The EU's acquis on LGBT rights is rather limited. The aim of this book, therefore, is to disentangle ...
... EU policy process and then incorporated in the logic of domestic (national and subnational) discourse, political structures, and public policies. (Radaelli 2003, p. 30) More simply, it refers to the process of transferring the EU's ...
... European countries, see the chapter by Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016; or that ... political configurations (see, e.g., the chapters by Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak ... EU pressure on LGBT activism (see the chapter by Bilić 2016). In doing so ...