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Author_Koen Slootmaeckers
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EU Enlargement
EU politics
European Union
Europeanisation
EuroPride 2022
Homonationalism
Human Rights
LGBT Rights
Queer Politics
Serbia
Western Balkans
Product details
- ISBN 9781526191281
- Weight: 529g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. But the promotion of these norms has provided a basis for political contestation. This book interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. Reconceptualising Europeanisation, it argues that EU enlargement is a process of negotiated transformation in which EU policies and norms are (re)defined, translated and transformed. Empirically, it analyses the promotion of and resistance to LGBT equality norms in Serbia’s EU integration process, but it looks beyond policies to the impact of the negotiated transitions on lived experiences. Overall, the book raises important questions about the political and social consequences of Europeanisation. At its heart is one crucial question: what do we consider progress?
Koen Slootmaeckers is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City, University of London
