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Book review: Hromadžić, Azra. 2015. Citizens of an empty nation: youth and state-making in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 239 pp. Hb: £39.00. ISBN: 9780812247008 (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2016). Book review: Hromadžić, Azra. 2015. Citizens of an empty nation: youth and state-making in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 239 pp. Hb: £39.00. ISBN: 9780812247008. Social anthropology : the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists = Anthropologie sociale, 24(2), 260-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12278

Writing about embodiment as an act of translation (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2016). Writing about embodiment as an act of translation. Critical military studies, 2(1-2), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2016.1139314

Writing about embodiment is an act of compression: reducing the sensory complexity of someone else’s physical experience, or even one’s own, into written language that somebody else will understand through sight or sound. It is an act of abstraction,... Read More about Writing about embodiment as an act of translation.

The ‘Gay Olympics’? : the Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2017). The ‘Gay Olympics’? : the Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging. European journal of international relations, 23(1), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116633278

The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer Internat... Read More about The ‘Gay Olympics’? : the Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging.

Encounters with the military : toward an ethics of feminist critique? (2016)
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Baker, C., Basham, V., Bulmer, S., Gray, H., & Hyde, A. (2016). Encounters with the military : toward an ethics of feminist critique?. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 18(1), 140-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2015.1106102

This conversation developed from a panel titled “Interrogating the Militarized Masculine: Reflections on Research, Ethics and Access” held at the May 2013 International Feminist Journal of Politics conference at the University of Sussex, UK.

Introduction : gender and geopolitics in the Eurovision Song Contest (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2015). Introduction : gender and geopolitics in the Eurovision Song Contest. Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2(1), 74-93

From the vantage point of the early 1990s, when the end of the Cold War not only inspired the discourses of many Eurovision performances but created opportunities for the map of Eurovision participation itself to significantly expand in a short space... Read More about Introduction : gender and geopolitics in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (2015)
Book
Baker, C. (2015). The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan

Catherine Baker offers an up-to-date, balanced and concise introductory account of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. The volume incorporates the latest research, showing how the state of the field has evolved and guides students thr... Read More about The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.

'Ancient Volscian border dispute flares': representations of militarism, masculinity and the Balkans in Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus (2015)
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Baker, C. (2016). 'Ancient Volscian border dispute flares': representations of militarism, masculinity and the Balkans in Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 18(3), 429-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2014.984486

Reception of the 2012 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, dealt with two particular themes: the homoerotic relationship between Fiennes' Coriolanus and the rebel leader Aufidius whose forces he eventua... Read More about 'Ancient Volscian border dispute flares': representations of militarism, masculinity and the Balkans in Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus.

Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics (2015)
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Baker, C. (2015). Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics. Radical history review, 2015(121), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2800108

I have been teaching courses about music and politics since 2011, firstly as a part-time instructor replacing a faculty member during her research leave and later at a different institution as a faculty member myself. This piece considers some of the... Read More about Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics.

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). 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.

Beyond the island story? the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history (2014)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2015). Beyond the island story? the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history. Rethinking History, 19(3), 409-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2014.909674

This paper evaluates the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as an exercise in public history. Public events have been widely identified within the study of nationalism as festivals that attempt to reinforce national identity and belong... Read More about Beyond the island story? the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history.

The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research (2014)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2014). The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research. International Peacekeeping, 21(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2014.899123

The international organizations involved in peacebuilding, democratization and peacekeeping in the Yugoslav successor states have employed thousands of locally recruited workers as project officers, language intermediaries and support staff. This mak... Read More about The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research.

Critical pedagogy within the migration/security nexus: but who gets through the door? (2013)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2013). Critical pedagogy within the migration/security nexus: but who gets through the door?. Critical Studies on Security, 1(3), 370-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2013.850237

This submission will reflect on how border control and visa regimes structure access to higher education by differentiating between potential students and funding recipients based on citizenship, and will suggest some implications for critical pedago... Read More about Critical pedagogy within the migration/security nexus: but who gets through the door?.

Music as a weapon of ethnopolitical violence and conflict: processes of ethnic separation during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia (2013)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2013). Music as a weapon of ethnopolitical violence and conflict: processes of ethnic separation during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Patterns of Prejudice, 47(4-5), 409-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2013.835914

Using illustrations from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath, Baker argues that understanding popular music and public discourses about it can help to understand the dynamics of ethnopolitical conflict. Studies of war and conflict have... Read More about Music as a weapon of ethnopolitical violence and conflict: processes of ethnic separation during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Language, cultural space and meaning in the phenomenon of "Cro-dance" (2013)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2013). Language, cultural space and meaning in the phenomenon of "Cro-dance". Ethnologie française, 43(2), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.3917/ethn.132.0313

"Cro-dance" was a musical trend in 1990s Croatia which combined north-west European dance music with lyrics in Croatian and often English, unlike most Croatian popular music which used Croatian language only. This paper applies ideas from sociolingui... Read More about Language, cultural space and meaning in the phenomenon of "Cro-dance".

Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
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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