Beyond EUtopian promises and disillusions

Author(s)

Bojan Bilic, P. Stubbs

Abstract

In this concluding chapter we take a closer—but inductive—look at some of the reasons for which a non-heteronormative disruption of the private/public binary in the post-Yugoslav space, that has been traditionally underpinned by patriarchal assumptions, has proved so painful and sometimes overtly violent. We argue that if people with non-heterosexual identifications in the post-Yugoslav space are to be reintegrated into the community of citizens and not merely “tolerated” or used as a bargaining chip in political equations, the techniques encouraged by the EU need to be redefined in the direction of attenuating or cutting the conceptual link between homosexuality/non-heterosexuality and Europe, and grounding sexual diversity in the local socio-political practices and historical experiences.

Organisation(s)

Department of Education, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Pages

231-248

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57261-5_9

Publication date

2016

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504014 Gender studies

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/13092ae2-d90f-4700-8e62-99fcab3156f6