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Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success? (2017)
Thesis
Allan, S. M. (2017). Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220370

This research investigates whether the Army Reserve (AR), the new name for the Territorial Army, can become a more integrated, more efficient, better trained, and more deployable force, as intimated by the government, than their previous incarnations... Read More about Part-time defenders of the Realm : is the history of the Territorial Army a likely indicator of Future Reserves 2020 success?.

Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR (2016)
Book
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.

Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2016). Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe. Nationalities Papers, 44(6), 857-859. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2016.1223026

Extract In October 2014, Serbia's European Championships qualifying match against Albania was abandoned after a drone flew onto the pitch in Belgrade with a banner showing Kosovo as part of a Greater Albania, provoking a fight between both teams and... Read More about Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe.

Fictionalised accounts of translation and interpreting for peacebuilding forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo: The memoir-novels of Veselin Gatalo and Tanja Janković (2016)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2016). Fictionalised accounts of translation and interpreting for peacebuilding forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo: The memoir-novels of Veselin Gatalo and Tanja Janković. In L. Buckingham (Ed.), The Status of English in Bosnia and Herzegovina (267-284). Bristol: Channel View Publications and Multilingual Matters

Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, C., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2016). Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 10(3), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2016.1199483

This paper explores the convergences and divergence between transitional justice and peace-building, by considering some of the recent developments in scholarship and practice. We examine the notion of ‘peace’ in transitional justice and the idea of... Read More about Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding.

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)
Journal Article
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. 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.

'Ancient Volscian border dispute flares': representations of militarism, masculinity and the Balkans in Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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). London: 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.