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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)
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. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (201 - 221). Palgrave Macmillan

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

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

Fraternization (2012)
Book Chapter
Footitt, H., & Baker, C. (2012). Fraternization. Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (139 - 164). 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). Middleton, Conn.: 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.

Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina (2011)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2011). Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina. Südosteuropa, 59(4), 478-502

The foreign military forces and international organisations that have operated in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 1992 recruited thousands of local people, often young students, to work as interpreters. Drawing on 31 life history interviews conduc... Read More about Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina.

Have you ever been in Bosnia? British military travelers in the Balkans since 1992 (2011)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2011). Have you ever been in Bosnia? British military travelers in the Balkans since 1992. Journeys : the international journal of travel and travel writing, 12(1), 63 - 92. https://doi.org/10.3167/jys.2011.120104

Tens of thousands of British military personnel traveled in former Yugoslavia as peacekeepers between 1992 and 2007. The settlements where British forces established their military presence and supply chain were conceptually far from former Yugoslavi... Read More about Have you ever been in Bosnia? British military travelers in the Balkans since 1992.

"Death to fascism isn't in the catechism": Legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia (2010)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2010). "Death to fascism isn't in the catechism": Legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia. Narodna umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research, 47(1), 163-183

This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the... Read More about "Death to fascism isn't in the catechism": Legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia.

The care and feeding of linguists : the working environment of interpreters, translators, and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2010)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2010). The care and feeding of linguists : the working environment of interpreters, translators, and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina. War and Society, 29(2), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1179/204243410X12674422128993

The history of war and peacekeeping has little to say about languages or the people who work with them, yet a closer inspection shows that contacts between different languages and the presence of an interpreter were a routine experience during the pe... Read More about The care and feeding of linguists : the working environment of interpreters, translators, and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (2010)
Book
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.