All Outputs (24)

Gay Bod: Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride After Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Baker, C., & Howcroft, M. (2023). Gay Bod: Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride After Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe. In K. Loftsdóttir, B. Hipfl, & S. Ponzanesi (Eds.), Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe (108-124). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269748-7

In 2017, Kingston-upon-Hull celebrated becoming UK City of Culture (‘Hull2017’). Organisers of the cultural mega-event hoped to restore civic pride amongst residents of Hull, which had been severely affected ever since its North Sea fishing industry... Read More about Gay Bod: Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride After Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe.

The Molitva Factor: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics (2022)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2022). The Molitva Factor: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics. In A. Dubin, D. Vuletic, & A. Obregón (Eds.), The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia (96-110). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188933-9

This chapter explores how the author’s research into nationalism, popular culture, gender and sexuality in international politics has been able to apply the idea that the Eurovision Song Contest illustrates the idea of contestants as symbolic represe... Read More about The Molitva Factor: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics.

The call is coming from inside the house: researching race after Yugoslavia in ‘post-post-racial’ times (2021)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2021). The call is coming from inside the house: researching race after Yugoslavia in ‘post-post-racial’ times. In Researching Yugoslavia and Its Aftermath: Sources, Prejudices and Alternative Solutions (253-272). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70343-1_12

This chapter sets efforts to research race in the (post-)Yugoslav region in the context of what Kimberlé Crenshaw has termed today’s ‘post-post-racial’ times, in which progressives who might have believed that global society was on an inevitable cour... Read More about The call is coming from inside the house: researching race after Yugoslavia in ‘post-post-racial’ times.

Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker (2021)
Book Chapter
Baker, C., & Koobak, R. (2021). Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker. In R. Koobak, M. Tlostanova, & S. Thapar-Björkert (Eds.), Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (40-52). London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this interview, conducted over two rounds in August 2019 and January 2020, post-Cold War historian and cultural studies scholar Catherine Baker reflects on how she situates her work within the growing literature on intersections between postcoloni... Read More about Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker.

Music, media and culture one generation after Yugoslavia: do we still need “nostalgia”? (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Music, media and culture one generation after Yugoslavia: do we still need “nostalgia”?. In O. Anastasakis, A. Bennett, D. Madden, & A. Merdzanovic (Eds.), The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economics and Society in the Modern Balkans (59-78). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Yugoslav popular music and global histories of the Cold War (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Yugoslav popular music and global histories of the Cold War. In D. S. Beard, & L. V. Rasmussen (Eds.), Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music (232-245). London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315452333-25

Employing a process of so-called circuit listening and considering the routes, networks, and histories necessary for a song to come about, however, reveals “Colinda” as the outcome of circuits of music, migration, and colonialism, owing its existence... Read More about Yugoslav popular music and global histories of the Cold War.

Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. In . C. Baker (Ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (1-30). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War. In C. Baker (Ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (74-96). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia. In C. Baker (Ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (189-212). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding (2019)
Book Chapter
Baker, C., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2019). Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding. In N. Lemay-Hébert (Ed.), Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding (185-198). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

"If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags (2019)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2019). "If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags. In J. Kalman, B. Wellings, & K. Jacotine (Eds.), Eurovisions: Identity and the international politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956 (175-200). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9427-0_9

Baker uses contestations over flags at the Eurovision Song Contest to illustrate the paradox that, while Eurovision is ostensibly ‘non-political’ and prohibits ‘political’ messages and symbols, organisers, hosts, broadcasters, contestants and fans ha... Read More about "If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags.

Interviewing for research on languages and war (2019)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2019). Interviewing for research on languages and war. In M. Kelly, H. Footitt, & M. Salama-Carr (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict (157-179). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04825-9_8

Many participants in conflict have experienced it through mediations of meaning between languages, and whole categories of participants have even often gone unnoticed in the study of war because of the historic ‘invisibility’ of languages and transla... Read More about Interviewing for research on languages and war.

Unsung heroism?: showbusiness and social action in Britain’s military wives choir(s) (2018)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2018). Unsung heroism?: showbusiness and social action in Britain’s military wives choir(s). In V. Kitchen, & J. G. Mathers (Eds.), Heroism and Global Politics (122-146). London and New York: Routledge

In 2011, the BBC documentary The Choir visited military bases in Devon to film with wives and partners of British servicemen who had been deployed to Afghanistan. Amid a growing convergence between popular entertainment, popular militarism, and ‘Reme... Read More about Unsung heroism?: showbusiness and social action in Britain’s military wives choir(s).

Transnational 'LGBT' Politics after the Cold War and Implications for Gender History (2016)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2016). Transnational 'LGBT' Politics after the Cold War and Implications for Gender History. In C. Baker (Ed.), Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan

British-Yugoslav Lesbian Networks During and After the Great War (2016)
Book Chapter
Dimitrijevic, O., & Baker, C. (2016). British-Yugoslav Lesbian Networks During and After the Great War. In C. Baker (Ed.), Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan

Fictionalised accounts of translation and interpreting for peacebuilding forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo: The memoir-novels of Veselin Gatalo and Tanja Janković (2016)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2016). Fictionalised accounts of translation and interpreting for peacebuilding forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo: The memoir-novels of Veselin Gatalo and Tanja Janković. In L. Buckingham (Ed.), The Status of English in Bosnia and Herzegovina (267-284). Bristol: Channel View Publications and Multilingual Matters

The view from the back of the warrior: Mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2014)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2014). The view from the back of the warrior: Mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In K. Burrell, & K. Hörschelmann (Eds.), Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States : Societies on the Move (148-172). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137267290

This chapter shows how spatial practices of security and intervention, as well as the spatial implications of post-socialism discussed elsewhere in this book, have produced novel mobilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the outbreak of war in 1992 and... Read More about The view from the back of the warrior: Mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia. Music, politics and violence (60 - 82). Wesleyan University Press

Being an interpreter in conflict (2012)
Book Chapter
Tobia, S., & Baker, C. (2012). Being an interpreter in conflict. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (201 - 221). Palgrave Macmillan

Fraternization (2012)
Book Chapter
Footitt, H., & Baker, C. (2012). Fraternization. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (139 - 164). Palgrave Macmillan