{"id":2405,"date":"2016-09-16T14:09:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-09-16T14:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:09:16","slug":"lgbt-activism-and-europeanisation-in-the-post-yugoslav-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/2016\/09\/16\/lgbt-activism-and-europeanisation-in-the-post-yugoslav-space\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the Post-Yugoslav Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/la\/book\/9781137572608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2406 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/9781137572608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Bojan Bili\u0107 (ed.)<br \/>\nPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volume interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBT activism(s) and Europeanisation(s) in all of the Yugoslav successor states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contributors to this book show how the long EU accession process disseminates discursive tools employed in LGBT activist struggles for human rights and equality. This creates a linkage between \u201cEuropeanness\u201d and \u201cgay emancipation\u201d which elevates certain forms of gay activist engagement and perhaps also non-heterosexuality, more generally, to a measure of democracy, progress and modernity. At the same time, it relegates practices of intolerance to the LGBT community to the status of non-European primitivist Other who is inevitably positioned in the patriarchal past that should be left behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bili\u0107 Bojan, Butterfield Nicole; Kajini\u0107 Sanja; Mi\u0161kovska Kajevska Ana; Kalezi\u0107 Danijel; Rexhepi Piro; Selmi\u0107 Adelita<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*<b>Bojan Bili\u0107<\/b> is Marie Curie Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the author of <i>We Were Gasping for Air: (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Activism and Its Legacy<\/i> (2012) and co-editor of <i>Resisting the Evil: (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Contention<\/i> (2012) and\u00a0<i>Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics: Multiple Others in Croatia and Serbia<\/i> (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bojan Bili\u0107 (ed.)<br \/>\nPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volume interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBT activism(s) and Europeanisation(s) in all of the Yugoslav successor states.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors to this book show how the long EU accession process disseminates discursive tools employed in LGBT activist struggles for human rights and equality. This creates a linkage between \u201cEuropeanness\u201d and \u201cgay emancipation\u201d which elevates certain forms of gay activist engagement and perhaps also non-heterosexuality, more generally, to a measure of democracy, progress and modernity. At the same time, it relegates practices of intolerance to the LGBT community to the status of non-European primitivist Other who is inevitably positioned in the patriarchal past that should be left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damne.net\/Test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}