1st Edition

LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey Exporting Europe?

By Maryna Shevtsova Copyright 2021
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey focuses on the impact of European Union promotion of LGBTI rights in Turkey and Ukraine, offering a re-evaluation of the mechanisms used by the EU and the domestic and external conditions that result in different outcomes. With the protection of LGBTI rights becoming one of the core principles of the EU, the last two decades have seen a... Read more

1. Europeanization "Beyond Europe": Promoting LGBTI Rights In Third Countries

2. Politics Of LGBTI Rights And Non-Discrimination In The Enlarged European Union

3. European Integration As Turkey’s Civilizational Project

4. Eurocrisis And Transformations Of Political System In Turkey

5. "Russian World" And "European Values": Competing Normative Powers And LGBTI Rights In Ukraine

6. In The Aftermath Of Euromaidan: Breaking The Granite Wall

7. Tracing Europeanization Of LGBTI Rights "Beyond Europe"

Conclusion

Biography

Maryna Shevtsova is a Swedish Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the Gender Studies department, Lund University, Sweden. She has a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University, Germany. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Center for European Studies, University of Florida, USA (2018/2019), and a fellow of the Think Tank Young Professional Development Program of the Open Society Initiative for Europe at CEDOS think tank, Kyiv, Ukraine. Since 2017, she has been actively engaged in LGBTI rights activism as a program coordinator for TERGO, a Kyiv-based NGO working for a safe school environment for LGBTI students. Her research interests cover LGBTI activism, Europeanization, queer migration, anti-gender movements and right-wing populism in Central and Eastern Europe.