Naslov
Discontents of Professionalisation: Sexual Politics and Activism in Croatia in the Context of EU Accession

Autori
Butterfield, Nicole

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the Post- Yugoslav Space

Urednik/ci
Bilić, Bojan

Izdavač
Palgrave Macmillan

Grad
London : Delhi

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
23-58

ISBN
978-1-137-57260-8

Ključne riječi
Legal Change ; European Identity ; Internalise Homophobia ; Political Message ; LGBT Community

Sažetak
This chapter examines Croatian LGBT activists’ engagement with discourses of human rights and European identity in their struggles for anti- discrimination legislation during the late 2000s. Utilising the external pressure imposed by European Union institutions, some Croatian activists and the organisations with which they collaborated focused their efforts toward lobbying for legislative protection again discrimination based on sexual orientation. Some activists construct a hierarchical differentiation between a professionalised sphere of civil society consisting of “serious”, professionalised types of activism vs. amateur, cultural-based activism and embrace similar lobbying strategies used by transnational LGBTIQ organisations in Europe. I discuss how these professionalised lobbying strategies reproduce certain discourses of human rights and European identity that can foreclose recognition of difference within the larger, diverse LGBTIQ community and its needs.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Etnologija i antropologija

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