Catherine Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3991-7946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 280 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) uniquely exhibits features of both sporting and cultural events. Its tradition of awarding hosting rights to the previous year’s winning broadcaster has persisted even as its scale has approached that of sporting and cultural mega-events. Research on its politics of place has increasingly drawn on studies of sports mega-events, especially surrounding nation-branding and ‘soft power.’ Yet there has been little dia…
Off white
Central and Eastern Europe has long been seen in the West as an ‘off white’ European periphery. Yet its nationalist movements have worked towards a full belonging in a white Europe, or have claimed themselves to be superior defenders of the white West. This volume demonstrates the centrality of white supremacy for over two centuries in the region’s nation-building, social hierarchies, ethnic homogenisation, and global interconnections. Such insig…
Lion of Love
Alexander Lemtov, the Russian antagonist of Netflix's 2020 musical comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga , embodies and dramatizes contentions over Russian homophobia, disavowals of homosexuality in Russian entertainment, and the construction of LGBTQ+ equality as a defining value of ‘European’ space which have surrounded the real-life Eurovision Song Contest since the mid-2000s. An assertively-heterosexual sex symbol in public, …
Misogyny, Survivorship, and Believability on Digital Platforms
On 18th May 2022, in an opinion piece for The New York Times, columnist Michelle Goldberg declared “the death of #MeToo” (Goldberg, 2022). The papers in this panel examine this claim and wrestle with its potential implications. Drawing on case studies and data from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, we evaluate the current state of play in the online push-and-pull between feminist speech about gender-based violence and…
When Eurovision Came Out
Europe's “queer 1990s,” at least for those who put their faith in liberal activism and legal reforms, represented a distinctive, post-Cold-War turning-point, when the European integration project still attracted widespread optimism for future prosperity and social progress.1 Indeed, the very symbolic meanings of “Europe” within that liberal project shifted to encompass sexual equality in these 1990s through cumulative legislative and judicial mov…
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
Scoliosis is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine with the large majority of cases classed as idiopathic, meaning there is no known cause. Typically, most cases occur in children and young people affecting approximately three per cent of the adult populace with five out of six cases being female. The BackBone: Interdisciplinary Creative Practices and Body Positive Resilience pilot research study used arts and humanities methods to measure t…
Can I Be Gay in the Army
In 2017, the British Army opened its ‘This is Belonging’ recruitment campaign, aimed at groups of young people who were considered traditionally less likely to join the Army, with marketing at Pride in London aimed at LGBTQ youth. The campaign’s next phase, in 2018, consisted of live-action and animated YouTube videos targeting specific groups including young women, religiously observant youth, emotionally sensitive young men, youth with average …
Peace on the Small Screen
Between early 1994 and the end of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, a team of journalists working for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) was in charge of a unique televisual experiment – a documentary film unit known as UNTV, which would produce more than 300 films about reconstruction, displacement and peace, to be broadcast on regular slots agreed with local and national broadcasters throughout the…
Your Race Sounds Familiar
Your Face Sounds Familiar, a celebrity talent television format developed by the Dutch production company Endemol and first broadcast in Spain in 2011, has entertained audiences in more than forty countries with the sight of well-known professional musicians impersonating foreign and domestic stars through cross-gender drag and, on many national editions, cross-racial drag, with results that would widely be regarded as offensive blackface where t…
Science and Art
June 02 2021 Science and Art: Understanding the Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue Catherine Baker, Catherine Baker Catherine Baker Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts, Birmingham City University, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Iain D. Gilchrist Iain D. Gilchrist Iain D. Gilchrist School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, U.K. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Auth…
Guarding the “Balkan Route” on the postsocialist frontier
IntroductionVaruh meje, Maja Weiss’ debut film, dates back to 2002 – when Slovenia was soon to join the European Union (EU), when the state was first taking up its role as EU “border guard,” and when Slovenian society was reacting to the first wave of undocumented Asian migrants transiting the country. With elements of postsocialist realism and folk horror, Varuh meje was notable on its release for being the first Slovenian feature film for adult…
The contingencies of whiteness
Both the fortification of European borders against migration from the global South and Western militaries' involvement in wars ostensibly to prevent terrorist networks reaching Western shores belong to what critical and feminist security studies already recognize as a racialized security regime.Within this gendered racial order, policies, discourses and everyday practices surrounding border security, migration, asylum and war reinforce each other…
Croatia
Forum
Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digit…
Postcoloniality Without Race? Racial Exceptionalism and Southeast European Cultural Studies
The black Dutch feminist Gloria Wekker, assembling past and present everyday expressions of racialized imagination which collectively undermine hegemonic beliefs that white Dutch society has no historic responsibility for racism, writes in her book White Innocence that “one can do postcolonial studies very well without ever critically addressing race.” Two and a half decades after the adaptation of postcolonial thought to explain aspects of cultu…
Textual Representation, Class Exploitation and the Postcolonial
Commentary on Rade Zinaic, 'Twilight of the Proletariat: Reading Critical Balkanology as Liberal Ideology' (New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics 25:1 (2017), 19-54)
Veteran masculinities and audiovisual popular music in post-conflict Croatia
In Croatia, campaigners for a more critical public reckoning with the memory of Croatia's 'Homeland War' (1991–5) and the national past confront embeddings of hegemonic myths of the war into everyday life. Among these are the stardom of a musician whose 'patriotic' music claims the same moral authority as the Croatian veterans' movement and whose public persona has embodied militarised masculinity since he became a wartime star. Popular music and…
Language Intermediaries and Local Agency
The peace negotiations ending the 1992–95 Bosnian war established a constitutional system of ethnic power-sharing giving international peacebuilding a significant role in post-conflict Bosnia’s governance and economy. This indefinite mission depended – like any other intervention where foreigners work across linguistic boundaries – on interlinguistic mediation by locally-recruited translators/interpreters, an aspect of knowledge production that e…
What female pop-folk celebrity in south-east Europe tells postsocialist feminist media studies about global formations of race
Feminist media studies of postsocialism are well practised at explaining how ideologies of gender and nation reinforce each other amid neoliberal capitalism on Europe’s semi-periphery. They extend this, by critiquing media marginalization of Roma, into addressing regional formations of race. Yet they rarely go on to contextualize the region’s place within “race” as a global structure of feeling, or how transnational processes of “race in translat…
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
The Last Yugoslav Generation. The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism
Of all the promises that the Yugoslav state socialist system failed to keep, perhaps the most revealing was its failure to create the conditions under which youth could fulfil the hopes that very s
Between the Round Table and the Waiting Room
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Conclusion
Just as anti-racist movements often struggle to discuss 'racism' as structural oppression rather than individual prejudice, studies of the Yugoslav region struggle to thread together discussions of race. During the Anglophone academy's postcolonial and subaltern turn, which overlapped with the end of state socialism and the Yugoslav wars, the asymmetric relationship led to a decisive theoretical conjunction when scholars brought up in the region …
Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism
In domains from the history of popular entertainment to that of ethnicity and migration, ideas of race, as well as ethnicity and religion, have demonstrably formed part of how people from the Yugoslav region have understood their place in Europe and the world. Even within the expanding history of state socialism and race, the impact of the 1990s wars on memory and identity set the Yugoslav region apart; yet the geopolitics of Non-Alignment had al…
Series editor’s introduction
In 1796 a German politico-philosophical manifesto proclaims the 'highest act of reason' as an 'aesthetic act'. The ways in which this transformation relates to the development of some of the major directions in modern philosophy is the focus of this book. The book focuses on the main accounts of the human subject and on the conceptions of art and language which emerge within the Kantian and post-Kantian history of aesthetics. Immanuel Kant's main…
Race and the Yugoslav region
This book explains theoretical work in postcolonial and postsocialist studies to offer a novel and distinctive insight into how Yugoslavia is configured by, and through, race. It presents the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally in Yugoslavia. The book provides a discussion on the critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of 'race in translation' and south-east European cultural critique to sh…
Encounters with the Military
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
The ‘gay Olympics’? The Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging
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 International Relations do not just involve states or even international institutions; national and transnational popular geopolitics over ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights’ and ‘Europeanness’ eq…
Postcoloniality Without Race? Racial Exceptionalism and Southeast European Cultural Studies
The black Dutch feminist Gloria Wekker, assembling past and present everyday expressions of racialized imagination which collectively undermine hegemonic beliefs that white Dutch society has no historic responsibility for racism, writes in her book White Innocence that “one can do postcolonial studies very well without ever critically addressing race.” Two and a half decades after the adaptation of postcolonial thought to explain aspects of cultu…
Can I Be Gay in the Army
In 2017, the British Army opened its ‘This is Belonging’ recruitment campaign, aimed at groups of young people who were considered traditionally less likely to join the Army, with marketing at Pride in London aimed at LGBTQ youth. The campaign’s next phase, in 2018, consisted of live-action and animated YouTube videos targeting specific groups including young women, religiously observant youth, emotionally sensitive young men, youth with average …
The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States
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 makes them a distinct employment sector within these post-socialist and in several cases post-conflict economies, most significantly in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. This paper evaluates arguments in fa…
Music as a weapon of ethnopolitical violence and conflict
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 approached music as political communication, as an object of securitization, as a means of violence and as a symbol of ethnic difference, while international law in the context of another case of col…
Mapping the Nexus of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
This article explores the convergences and divergence between transitional justice and peacebuilding, by considering some of the recent developments in scholarship and practice. It examines the notion of ‘peace’ in transitional justice and the idea of ‘justice’ in peacebuilding. It highlights that transitional justice and peacebuilding often engage with similar or related ideas, though the scholarship in each field has developed largely in parall…
Writing about embodiment as an act of translation
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, excerpting part of a narrative or a life and putting it to another purpose, where indeed one may – and possibly one always should – worry that it is overstepping into appropriation. It is also an act…
Prosperity without Security
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 military forces. In exploring their opportunities for temporary prosperity and the sources of precarity that were associated with this distinctive form of work, Catherine Baker discusses the socioeco…
The Care and Feeding of Linguists
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 peacekeeping and peace-building operations conducted by the UN and NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This paper shows how political, strategic, tactical and economic pressures affected the working lives of lo…
Wild Dances and Dying Wolves
This paper examines Eurovision as a site for the public representation of the nation and explores the tendency toward simulation in such representations. The contest's transnational audience and implication in commercial practices create pressures toward representing the nation through simplified, well-known images. A critique of globalization from southeast Europe argues that cultural production from marginalized countries which emphasizes local…
Forum
Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digit…
Sounds of the Borderland
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 literature on music, politics and the state, which has largely been grounded in Western European and North American political systems. It also responds to an emerging fascination with the culture and…
The Politics of Performance
This paper examines transnational relations between the Yugoslav successor states from the point of view of popular music, and demonstrates how transnational musical figures (such as Djordje Balašević, Momčilo Bajagić-Bajaga, or Ceca Ražnatović) are interpreted as symbolic reference points in national ethnopolitical discourse in the process of identity construction. Another symbolic function is served by Serbian turbofolk artists, who in Croatia …
The contingencies of whiteness
Both the fortification of European borders against migration from the global South and Western militaries' involvement in wars ostensibly to prevent terrorist networks reaching Western shores belong to what critical and feminist security studies already recognize as a racialized security regime.Within this gendered racial order, policies, discourses and everyday practices surrounding border security, migration, asylum and war reinforce each other…
War Memory and Musical Tradition
From the outbreak of the Homeland War (1991–1995) in Croatia to the present day popular music has been used as a means to commemorate the upheaval and sacrifice of Croatia's war against the Yugoslav National Army and the Serb militia. This paper focuses on the musical commemoration of a particular region, Eastern Slavonia, which was not fully integrated into the Croatian state until three years after the official end of the war. The narrative, vo…
When Seve Met Bregović
In 2006 the Croatian singer Severina Vučković attempted to represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest with a song arranged by Goran Bregović, the ex-Yugoslav musician from Sarajevo. Before the song “Moja štikla” [My Stiletto] had even been released, the Croatian (and Serbian) mass media had questioned its “Croatianness” in an escalating sequence of claims and counter-claims to authenticity. Its use of musical elements based on folk song and…
Beyond the island story
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 belonging. Contemporary Olympic Games figure in this literature as a specific form of event where the nature and content of a host state's identity is displayed for the global gaze of other nations. While o…
It's not their job to soldier
Peacekeeping operations throw the use of specialized military forces and the aim of accomplishing change in a civilian environment into contradiction. Organizations with cultures that facilitate warfighting have to reorient themselves towards achieving peace and consent rather than victory, making peacekeeping a process of constant intercultural encounters between military and civilian as well as between international and local. The force's local…
Veteran masculinities and audiovisual popular music in post-conflict Croatia
In Croatia, campaigners for a more critical public reckoning with the memory of Croatia's 'Homeland War' (1991–5) and the national past confront embeddings of hegemonic myths of the war into everyday life. Among these are the stardom of a musician whose 'patriotic' music claims the same moral authority as the Croatian veterans' movement and whose public persona has embodied militarised masculinity since he became a wartime star. Popular music and…
Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe
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 their fans. While the flight of the drone was a technologically novel reminder that the nation's territorial space is not two-dimensional but three-dimensional, the subject of a politics of verticality and vo…
Ancient Volscian Border Dispute Flares”
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 eventually joins, and the choice to shoot the film in Serbia and Montenegro. While south-east Europe has become an increasingly popular location for Anglophone filmmaking, the promotion and reception of Cori…
"Language, Cultural Space and Meaning in the Phenomenon of "Cro-dance
Phénomène musical des années 1990, la Cro-dance a associé à une musique de danse du Nord-Est de l'Europe des paroles en croate et souvent en anglais, contrairement à toute la musique populaire qui est seulement chantée en croate. S'appuyant sur le champ de la sociolinguistique et de l'anthropologie, cet article analyse les échanges de langage dans ces textes musicaux comme les récits auxquels les artistes, les producteurs et le public les associe…
Popular Music and Political Change in Post-Tuđman Croatia
While Franjo Tuđman was the president of Croatia (1990–99), popular music and other forms of entertainment were heavily structured around the key presidential narratives: Croatia’s political and cultural independence from Yugoslavia, and the idea that Croatia’s war effort had been purely defensive. After Tuđman, the Croatian music industry had to cope with media pluralism and the transnational challenges of the digital era. Patriotic popular musi…
Comparative Suggestibility in the Trance and Waking States—a Further Study
Résumé A quatre jours successifs on a testé dix sujets pour la suggestibilité comparative dans l'état hypnotique et l'état non hypnotique. On a testé les sujets deux fois chaque jour dans chaque état avec une période de deux minutes entre les deux tests dans un certain état, et une période de quinze minutes de lecture tranquille entré les tests dans les différents états. La moitié des sujets ont subi les deux tests hypnotiques précédant les deux …
The Innocent Artists
Insoumission à l'école obligatoire
The Politics of Performance
This paper examines transnational relations between the Yugoslav successor states from the point of view of popular music, and demonstrates how transnational musical figures (such as Djordje Balašević, Momčilo Bajagić-Bajaga, or Ceca Ražnatović) are interpreted as symbolic reference points in national ethnopolitical discourse in the process of identity construction. Another symbolic function is served by Serbian turbofolk artists, who in Croatia …
Wild Dances and Dying Wolves
This paper examines Eurovision as a site for the public representation of the nation and explores the tendency toward simulation in such representations. The contest's transnational audience and implication in commercial practices create pressures toward representing the nation through simplified, well-known images. A critique of globalization from southeast Europe argues that cultural production from marginalized countries which emphasizes local…
When Seve Met Bregović
In 2006 the Croatian singer Severina Vučković attempted to represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest with a song arranged by Goran Bregović, the ex-Yugoslav musician from Sarajevo. Before the song “Moja štikla” [My Stiletto] had even been released, the Croatian (and Serbian) mass media had questioned its “Croatianness” in an escalating sequence of claims and counter-claims to authenticity. Its use of musical elements based on folk song and…
War Memory and Musical Tradition
From the outbreak of the Homeland War (1991–1995) in Croatia to the present day popular music has been used as a means to commemorate the upheaval and sacrifice of Croatia's war against the Yugoslav National Army and the Serb militia. This paper focuses on the musical commemoration of a particular region, Eastern Slavonia, which was not fully integrated into the Croatian state until three years after the official end of the war. The narrative, vo…
It's not their job to soldier
Peacekeeping operations throw the use of specialized military forces and the aim of accomplishing change in a civilian environment into contradiction. Organizations with cultures that facilitate warfighting have to reorient themselves towards achieving peace and consent rather than victory, making peacekeeping a process of constant intercultural encounters between military and civilian as well as between international and local. The force's local…
Popular Music and Political Change in Post-Tuđman Croatia
While Franjo Tuđman was the president of Croatia (1990–99), popular music and other forms of entertainment were heavily structured around the key presidential narratives: Croatia’s political and cultural independence from Yugoslavia, and the idea that Croatia’s war effort had been purely defensive. After Tuđman, the Croatian music industry had to cope with media pluralism and the transnational challenges of the digital era. Patriotic popular musi…
The Care and Feeding of Linguists
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 peacekeeping and peace-building operations conducted by the UN and NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This paper shows how political, strategic, tactical and economic pressures affected the working lives of lo…
Sounds of the Borderland
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 literature on music, politics and the state, which has largely been grounded in Western European and North American political systems. It also responds to an emerging fascination with the culture and…
Tito’s Children? Language Learning, Educational Resources, and Cultural Capital in the Life Histories of Interpreters Working in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Article Tito’s Children? Language Learning, Educational Resources, and Cultural Capital in the Life Histories of Interpreters Working in Bosnia and Herzegovina was published on April 1, 2011 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 59, issue 4)
Annica Kronsell. Gender, Sex, and the Postnational Defense
When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country
This paper discusses the working experiences of employees of foreign military forces in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, with reference to oral-history interviews with fourteen people who were employed as language intermediaries by British forces in the Banja Luka area. Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srpska (one of the political entities established under the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995), was also the site of the British-led divisional headq…
Prosperity without Security
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 military forces. In exploring their opportunities for temporary prosperity and the sources of precarity that were associated with this distinctive form of work, Catherine Baker discusses the socioeco…
Vampire Nation
Tomislav Z. Longinovic Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, 2011, x+212pp., £14.99/$22.95 p/b THE VAMPIRE, THE ORGANISING TROPE USED BY TOMISLAV LONGINOVIC'S study of violence, nationhood an
Language, Cultural Space and Meaning in the Phenomenon of “Cro-dance”
Phénomène musical des années 1990, la Cro-dance a associé à une musique de danse du Nord-Est de l’Europe des paroles en croate et souvent en anglais, contrairement à toute la musique populaire qui est seulement chantée en croate. S’appuyant sur le champ de la sociolinguistique et de l’anthropologie, cet article analyse les échanges de langage dans ces textes musicaux comme les récits auxquels les artistes, les producteurs et le public les associe…
Bought and Sold
Journal Article Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia, by Patrick Hyder Patterson Get access Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia, by Patrick Hyder Patterson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U.P., 2011; pp. xvii + 388. $39.95). Catherine Baker Catherine Baker University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 1…
Music as a weapon of ethnopolitical violence and conflict
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 approached music as political communication, as an object of securitization, as a means of violence and as a symbol of ethnic difference, while international law in the context of another case of col…
Critical pedagogy within the migration/security nexus
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 pedagogy in global politics. I write from the perspective of a former part-time instructor in an interdisciplinary East European studies department in the UK (a post I held in 2011–2012). In the UK system, …
"Language, Cultural Space and Meaning in the Phenomenon of "Cro-dance
Phénomène musical des années 1990, la Cro-dance a associé à une musique de danse du Nord-Est de l'Europe des paroles en croate et souvent en anglais, contrairement à toute la musique populaire qui est seulement chantée en croate. S'appuyant sur le champ de la sociolinguistique et de l'anthropologie, cet article analyse les échanges de langage dans ces textes musicaux comme les récits auxquels les artistes, les producteurs et le public les associe…
Innocence and victimhood
"Innocence and victimhood: gender, nation, and women’s activism in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina." Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 14(3), pp. 463–464
Beyond the island story
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 belonging. Contemporary Olympic Games figure in this literature as a specific form of event where the nature and content of a host state's identity is displayed for the global gaze of other nations. While o…
The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States
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 makes them a distinct employment sector within these post-socialist and in several cases post-conflict economies, most significantly in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. This paper evaluates arguments in fa…
Jim Samson, Music in the Balkans
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