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. In this talk, Koen Slootmaeckers engaging in a critical conversation with the way in which LGBT rights are imagined within European politics. Through this analysis, he calls for new politics, a new approach to LGBT equality that moves away from rights based approaches towards a politics that centres the lives of people, that no longer seeks to find progress where it can, but instead focusses on those that are left behind. Through this work, Koen Slootmaeckers calls to action the ethical obligation scholars have in their work to highlight where violence occurs and persists and to provide routes for avenues toward a queer peace.
Koen Slootmaeckers (City University of London, Department of International Politics)
Online participation via zoom possible: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/63527595152?pwd=c1VxV0hRaU9HNC9NaHRmRnBLaTB0UT09
Meeting-ID: 635 2759 5152
Kenncode: 340224