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Books


  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2025). Dolazak: Politika Seksualnosti i Pristupanje EU u Srbiji (Trans: Dušan Maljković). Belgrade: Centar za Kvir Studije.
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2023) Coming in: Sexual politics and EU accession in Serbia. Manchester: Manchester University Press [WINNER of the 2025 EUSA BEST BOOK PRIZE]
  • Slootmaeckers, K, Touquet, H., Vermeersch, P. (Eds.) (2016) The EU Enlargement and GayPolitics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and Prejudice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer Reviewed Articles


  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2025 - early view). A relational approach to study Europeanisation via enlargement. Geopolitics
  • Ammaturo, F.R, Slootmaeckers, K. (2025). The Unexpected Politics of ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Maps: (De)constructing Queer Utopias/Dystopias. European Journal of Politics and Gender. 8​(1), 3–25. [WINNER of the 2025 BEST ARTICLE PRIZE ​by CES gender and sexuality research network]
  • Slootmaeckers, K., Bosia, M.J. (2023). The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia. International Political Sociology​. 17(1), 1-19.
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2022). Unpacking normative resonance: The attitudinal panopticon and the implementation gap of LGBT rights in Serbia. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. 29(1). 1-23. 
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2020). Constructing European Union Identity through LGBT Equality Promotion: Crises and Shifting Othering Processes in the European Union Enlargement. Political Studies Review. 13(3). 346-361. 
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2019). Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism. Theory & Society. 48(2), 239-365.
  • Meuleman, B., Abts, K., Slootmaeckers, K., Meeusen, C. (2019). Differentiated threat and the genesis of prejudice: Group-specific antecedents of homonegativity, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant attitudes. Social Problems. 66(2), 222-244.
  • Slootmaeckers, K., O’Dwyer, C. (2018). Europeanization of Attitudes Towards Homosexuality: Exploring the Role of Education in the Transnational Diffusion of Values. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 31(4), 406-428.
  • Slootmaeckers, K., Sircar, I. (2018). Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism​. Europe-Asia Studies.​ 70(3), 321-344.
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2017). The Litmus Test of Pride: Analysing the Emergence of the Belgrade ‘Ghost’ Pride in the Context of EU Accession. East European Politics. 33(4), 517-535.
  • Meuleman, B., Abts, K., Slootmaeckers, K., Meeusen, C. (2017). Gedifferentieerde dreiging en het ontstaan van vooroordelen: Anti-immigranten attitudes, islamofobie, antisemitisme en homonegativiteit vergeleken [Differentiated Threat and het Genesis of prejudices: Anti-immigrant attitudes, islamophobia, anti-semitism and homonegativity compared]. Sociologos. 38(1), 42-70
  • Ulbricht, A., Sircar, I., Slootmaeckers, K. (2015) Queer to be kind: Exploring Western media discourses about the‘Eastern bloc’ during the 2007 and 2014 Eurovision Song Contests. Contemporary Southeastern Europe. 2(1), 155-172.
  • Adriaensen, J., Kerremans, B., Slootmaeckers, K. (2015). Mad about Methods? Teaching Research Methods in Political Science. Journal of Political Science Education. 11(1), 1-10.
  • Slootmaeckers, K., Kerremans, B., Adriaensen, J. (2014). Too Afraid to Learn: Attitudes TowardsStatistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to Acquiring QuantitativeSkills. Politics, 34(2), 191-200.
  • Slootmaeckers, K., Lievens, J. (2014). Cultural Capital and Attitudes toward Homosexuals: Exploring the Relation between Lifestyles and Homonegativity. Journal of Homosexuality, 61(7), 962-979.​

Book Chapters


  • Guerrina, R., Slootmaeckers, K. (forthcoming). Gender and Sexuality and (D/d)issensus over Liberal Democracy. In R. Coman, C. Bădulescu, T. Christiansen, M. Simoncin (Eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Dissensus over Liberal Democracy. Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Guerrina, R., Slootmaeckers, K. (2025). Gender and Sexuality in the EU. In M. Cini, N. Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.) European Union Politics. (pp 433 – 448). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2021). The Europeanization and Politicization of LGBT Rights in Serbia. In K. Fábián, J. E. Johnson, M. Lazda (Eds.) The Routledge International Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (pp.387-394). London: Routledge. 
  • Cooper, S., Slootmaeckers, K. (2020). Welcome to the ‘Family’: Integration, Identity, and Inclusivity in European Studies. in E. Jones (Ed), European Studies: Past, Present, and Future (pp. 32-35). Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing Limited.
  • Slootmaeckers, K., Touquet, H. (2016). The co-evolution of EU’s Eastern Enlargement and LGBT politics: An ever gayer Union? in K. Slootmaeckers, H. Touquet, & P. Vermeersch (Eds.), The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and Prejudice (pp.19-44). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Slootmaeckers, K, Touquet, H., Vermeersch, P. (2016). Introduction: EU Enlargement and LGBT Rights: Beyond Symbolism? in K. Slootmaeckers, H. Touquet, & P. Vermeersch (Eds.), The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and Prejudice (pp.1-16). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Pavasović Trošt, T., Slootmaeckers, K. (2015) Religion, Homosexuality and Nationalism in the Western Balkans: The Role of Religious Institutions in Defining the Nation, in S. Sremac & R. R. Ganzevoort (Eds.), Religious and Sexual Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays, and Governments (pp.154-180). Leiden: Brill.

(Policy) Reports


  • Guerrina, R., Slootmaeckers, K. (2023). The Sound of Silence: EDI in the European Studies Canon. University Association for Contemporary European Studies. Available at: www.uaces.org/edi-report
  • Cooper-Cunningham, D., Hagen, J. J., Akbary, A., Ayazi, M., Bohémier, A., Chen, E., Ghoshal, N., Hills, J., Kremer, D., Passaniti Mezzano, C., Nagarajan, C., Nellans, L., Peralta Ramón, M. S., Ranawana, A., Ritholtz, S., Slootmaeckers, K., & Vernon, P. (2023). Queering Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2022). The EU and LGBTIQ Rights. In UK in a Changing Europe & UACES (Eds.), The State of the European Union (pp. 62-64). London: UK in a Changing Europe.

Special Issues


  • Cooper, S., Slootmaeckers, K. (Eds.). (2020). Me Who? The Audibility of a Social Movement. EuropeNow: A Journal of Reearch & Art. (Issue 32).
  • Adriaensen, J., Kerremans, B., Slootmaeckers, K. (Eds.). (2015). Mad about Methods? Teaching Research Methods in Political Science. Journal of Political Science Education. 11(1)

Book Reviews


  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2025). Does citizenship as an apparatus of government rely on ‘progress’ as a technology of power? In: GLOBALCIT Review Symposium of Citizenship by Engin Isin. Florence: EUI Global Citizenship Observatory. Available at: https://globalcit.eu/globalcit-review-symposium-of-citizenship-by-engin-isin/3/
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2020). LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East. By Fait Muedini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 274p. $105.00 cloth, $27.99 paper. Perspectives on Politics, 18(1), 302-304. 
  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2019). Review of Frontiers of Civil Society: Government and Hegemony in Serbia, by Marek Mikus. Southeastern Europe, 43(3), 321-324.

PhD


  • Slootmaeckers, K. (2017). From 'Strategic Accession' to 'Tactical Europeanisation'?  The Promotion of and Resistance to LGBT Equality in Serbia’s European Integration Process.  (PhD dissertation). Queen Mary University of London. London, United Kingdom.
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Keywords: LGBT Rights, Gay Politics, Europeanisation, EU Enlargement,  Political Sociology of the Other, Western Balkans
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