Beskrivning
Beskrivning
Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volumeinterrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolicnexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBTactivism(s) and Europeanisation(s) in all of the Yugoslav successor states.
Contributors to this book show how the long EUaccession process disseminates discursive tools employed in LGBT activiststruggles for human rights and equality. This creates a linkage between“Europeanness” and “gay emancipation” which elevates certain forms of gayactivist engagement and perhaps also non-heterosexuality, more generally, to ameasure of democracy, progress and modernity. At the same time, it relegatespractices of intolerance to the LGBT community to the status of non-Europeanprimitivist Other who is inevitably positioned in the patriarchal past thatshould be left behind.
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