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Eurovision 2023 Cultural Relations Snapshot: A snapshot from the forthcoming cultural relations, soft power and shared values research (2023)
Report
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Burgess, G., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2023). Eurovision 2023 Cultural Relations Snapshot: A snapshot from the forthcoming cultural relations, soft power and shared values research. British Council

About this research In May 2023, Liverpool and the BBC hosted the Eurovision Song Contest on Ukraine’s behalf. This was the first time since 1980 that Eurovision has not been hosted in the previous winning country, and the first time a winner has e... Read More about Eurovision 2023 Cultural Relations Snapshot: A snapshot from the forthcoming cultural relations, soft power and shared values research.

Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology (2023)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (in press). Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology. In C. Baker, B. C. Iacob, A. Imre, & J. Mark (Eds.), Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211.00023

The chapter explores Southeast Europe’s part in global white nationalist historical mythology through the March 2019 Christchurch massacre and what it revealed about how both recent and distant histories of intercommunal violence in Southeast Europe... Read More about Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology.

Eurovision 2023: Broadcasting Liverpool, Welcoming LGBTQ+ Communities, Honouring Ukraine (2023)
Report
Baker, C. (2023). Eurovision 2023: Broadcasting Liverpool, Welcoming LGBTQ+ Communities, Honouring Ukraine. Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool

The Heseltine Institute is marking Liverpool’s status as host city for Eurovision 2023 with a special series of policy briefings. In this first briefing of the series, Dr Catherine Baker (University of Hull) discusses some of the key themes that will... Read More about Eurovision 2023: Broadcasting Liverpool, Welcoming LGBTQ+ Communities, Honouring Ukraine.

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). 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.