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Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (2020)
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Baker, C. (Ed.). Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446181.001.0001

This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of... Read More about Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics.

Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial? (2018)
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Baker, C. (2018). Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?. United Kingdom: Manchester University Press

This 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?.

Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR (2016)
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Baker, C. (2016). C. Baker (Ed.). Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer... Read More about Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR.

The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (2015)
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Baker, C. (2015). The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. United Kingdom: 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.

Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
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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.

Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (2010)
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Baker, C. (2010). Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315609973

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies... Read More about Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991.