Europeanisation, LGBT activism and non-heteronormativity in the post-Yugoslav space: An introduction

Autor(en)

Bojan Bilic

Abstrakt

This chapter sets the stage for the volume by introducing the most relevant conceptual instruments for “unpacking” the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBT activism(s), and Europeanisation(s) in all of the post-Yugoslav states. The volume problematises the trope of “Europeanisation” as linear and approaches it as a complex, dynamic, and troubled “translation” process which reproduces asymmetrical power relations, equating Europe with progress and civilisation, and hence, intolerance to gays as a form of non-European primitivist Other. Along with summarising the ensuing chapters, I claim that binaries between modernity and retraditionalisation become inscribed not only between the European Union and the post-Yugoslav space, but also within the post-Yugoslav space itself.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Seiten

1-22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57261-5_1

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3b0e82a3-2007-4526-b490-2e0deef8a005