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Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2012). Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina. Slavic Review, 71(4), 849-872. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.71.4.0849

This article uses life history interview data collected during a project on languages and peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina to consider, as an occupational group, people from former Yugoslavia who were employed as interpreters by foreign... Read More about Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
Book
Kelly, M., & Baker, C. (2012). Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Palgrave Macmillan

Interpreting the Peace is the first full-length study of language support in multinational peace operations. Building peace depends on being able to communicate with belligerents, civilians and forces from other countries. This depends on effective a... Read More about Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska 1995-2007 (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2012). When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska 1995-2007. History workshop journal : HWJ, 74(1), 131-155. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbs018

This paper discusses the working experiences of foreign military forces' employees in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) with reference to oral history interviews with fourteen people who were employed as language intermediaries by British forces in t... Read More about When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska 1995-2007.

Being an interpreter in conflict (2012)
Book Chapter
Tobia, S., & Baker, C. (2012). Being an interpreter in conflict. In 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. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (139 - 164). Palgrave Macmillan

Civilian interpreting in military conflicts (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). Civilian interpreting in military conflicts. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (184 - 200). Palgrave Macmillan

Frameworks for understanding (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). Frameworks for understanding. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (37 - 53). Palgrave Macmillan

Opening the black box: oral histories of how soldiers and civilians learned to translate and interpret during peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2012). Opening the black box: oral histories of how soldiers and civilians learned to translate and interpret during peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Oral History Forum d’histoire Orale, 32(Special Issue),

This paper uses 51 oral history interviews with former military personnel, language trainers and locally-recruited interpreters to explore how soldiers and civilians were educated into becoming translators and interpreters who worked in support of th... Read More about Opening the black box: oral histories of how soldiers and civilians learned to translate and interpret during peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008 (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008. In S. Fast, & K. Pegley (Eds.), Music, Politics, and Violence (60-82). Wesleyan University Press

© 2012 Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. An essay by Dubravka Ugrešic tells the story of the singer "Neda U.," who "came from Sarajevo, and her songwriter, N., [who] came from Zagreb." Neda "became⋯ a Serb" during the war in Croatia whe... Read More about The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008.