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
All Outputs (82)
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
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
‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2019). ‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction. Journal of historical fictions, 2(2), 102-125The Eurovision Song Contest has been called everything from ‘the Gay Olympics’ to ‘a monument to drivel’, but can it also be thought of as historical fiction – and what could that reveal about how narratives of national and European identity are reto... Read More about ‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction.
Croatia and the Rise of Fascism. The Youth Movement and the Ustasha during WWII: Goran Miljan (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (in press). Croatia and the Rise of Fascism. The Youth Movement and the Ustasha during WWII: Goran Miljan. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(10), 1759-1761. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2019.1696051
"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_9Baker 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.
Language intermediaries and local agency: peacebuilding, translation/interpreting and political disempowerment in 'mature' post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2019). Language intermediaries and local agency: peacebuilding, translation/interpreting and political disempowerment in 'mature' post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 12(3), 236-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2019.1644413The peace negotiations that ended the 1992–95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina established a constitutional system of ethnic power-sharing that satisfied its signatories (the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia) enough for war to cease and provided for... Read More about Language intermediaries and local agency: peacebuilding, translation/interpreting and political disempowerment in 'mature' post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Book Review: The Last Yugoslav Generation. The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2019). Book Review: The Last Yugoslav Generation. The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(4), 699-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2019.1610270
What female pop-folk celebrity in south-east Europe tells postsocialist feminist media studies about global formations of race (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2020). What female pop-folk celebrity in south-east Europe tells postsocialist feminist media studies about global formations of race. Feminist Media Studies, 20(3), 341-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1599035Feminist media studies of postsocialism are well practised at explaining how ideologies of gender and nation reinforce each other amid neoliberal capitalism on Europe’s semi-periphery. They extend this, by critiquing media marginalization of Roma, in... Read More about What female pop-folk celebrity in south-east Europe tells postsocialist feminist media studies about global formations of race.
Book review: Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2019). Book review: Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(2), 316-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2019.1584451
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_8Many 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.
Textual representation, class exploitation and the postcolonial: is the proletariat always in twilight? (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2019). Textual representation, class exploitation and the postcolonial: is the proletariat always in twilight?. New perspectives : interdisciplinary journal of Central & East European politics and international relations, 27(1), 135-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X1902700112Commentary on Rade Zinaic, 'Twilight of the Proletariat: Reading Critical Balkanology as Liberal Ideology' (New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics 25:1 (2017), 19-54)
Between the round table and the waiting room: Scholarship on war and peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo after the ‘Post-Cold War’ (2019)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2019). Between the round table and the waiting room: Scholarship on war and peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo after the ‘Post-Cold War’. Contemporary European History, 28(1), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777318000668
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: RoutledgeIn 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).
Book Review: Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania (2018)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2018). Book Review: Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania. Central Europe, 16(1), 55-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2018.1498576Review of Nicholas Tochka, 'Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania' (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east European cultural studies (2018)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2018). Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east European cultural studies. Interventions : international journal of postcolonial studies, 20(6), 759-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1492954The black Dutch feminist Gloria Wekker, assembling past and present everyday expressions of racialized imagination which collectively undermine hegemonic beliefs that white Dutch society has no historic responsibility for racism, writes in her book W... Read More about Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east European cultural studies.
Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial? (2018)
Book
Baker, C. (2018). Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?. United Kingdom: Manchester University PressThis is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects... Read More about Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?.
'A different kind of power'?: identification, stardom and embodiments of the military in Wonder Woman (2018)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2018). 'A different kind of power'?: identification, stardom and embodiments of the military in Wonder Woman. Critical Studies on Security, 6(3), 359-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2018.1432522
Book review: Holly Furneaux, Military men of feeling: emotion, touch and masculinity in the Crimean War (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2017). Book review: Holly Furneaux, Military men of feeling: emotion, touch and masculinity in the Crimean War. Critical military studies, 3(2), 212-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2017.1316537