Ekaterina Balabanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekaterina Balabanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekaterina |
| FAMILY NAME | Balabanova |
| SIGNATURE | BALABANOVA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6962-9905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press
This article presents the first systematic analysis of British press coverage regarding the legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights over 25 years (1997–2022). It finds that coverage undermining legitimacy falls into three main areas: limiting or eroding national sovereignty, inadequate performance or effectiveness and disrupting the ‘natural order’. Coverage supporting or defending legitimacy is ab…
Regional Innovation in Arts Provision Spawned by Covid-19: “It Became a Lifeline for a Lot of People Who Are Stuck at Home”
Although the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural sector due to the closure of galleries, museums, arts venues, and other cultural assets represents a significant health risk, new opportunities for arts and cultural engagement have arisen. Interviews with 24 representatives including service providers and creative practitioners from 15 arts and cultural organizations within the Liverpool City Region were conducted. The …
Lifting lockdown: Renewed access to arts and cultural activities
As engagement in community and cultural activities plays a public health role, a hybrid delivery of arts and culture - ensuring continued online access alongside in-person provision - will be vital for people's recovery. Alongside efforts to reimagine arts in mental healthcare in the wake of the crisis caused by the pandemic, the role of arts and culture in providing stigma-free environments to reconnect the vulnerable and isolated is more critic…
Media, migration and human rights: Discourse and resistance in the context of the erosion of liberal norms
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Norm destruction, norm resilience: The media and refugee protection in the UK and Hungary during Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis
Principles of refugee protection in Europe are said to have come under great pressure with the populist and nationalist backlash to the ‘migrant crisis’, often traced to illiberal regimes in post-communist countries. This paper tests these claims by comparatively analysing media coverage in the UK and Hungary, establishing the extent to which specific norms were challenged or upheld in April and September 2015. It develops a new methodology conne…
Media, Wars and Politics: Comparing the Incomparable in Western and Eastern Europe
The interaction between media and foreign policy is a critical dimension of the so-called age of 'new military humanitarianism'. The media is now more effective in gathering and distributing information all over the world and media coverage of humanitarian wars allows for information and images to reach a wide audience with great immediacy and realism. For policy making, the 24/7 news cycle means high levels of exposure to fast-breaking internati…
A deadly cocktail? The fusion of Europe and immigration in the UK press
This article asks how the EU is imagined and deployed in different justifications for national restrictions on the free movement of European citizens. It does this by analysing press coverage in the UK, where concerns about the issues of immigration and European integration contributed to a victory for ‘Brexit’ in the 2016 referendum. It develops a novel technique for analysing the political dimension of media debates offering a conceptual map to…
Ethics, Politics and Migration: Public Debates on the Free Movement of Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK, 2006–2013
Public debates on immigration have become the subject of much concern, particularly in the UK. This article applies an ethical lens to assess changes in public debates over intra-EU migration in six UK national newspapers during 2006 and 2013. It finds an almost complete dominance of communitarian justifications, mainly based on welfare chauvinism, but a notable increase in security-related arguments and a decrease in economic nationalist ideas. …
Introduction: Communicating War
This special issue is a collection of articles drawn from the one-day international conference that took place in January 2011 at the University of Liverpool, organized and hosted by the Media and
US Foreign Policy in the European Media: Framing the Rise and Fall of Neoconservatism
A Europe of Rights and Values? Public Debates on Sarkozy's Roma Affair in France, Bulgaria and Romania
This article analyses press coverage between July and October 2010 in three different European Union (EU) member states (France, Romania and Bulgaria) of the French government's expulsion of Roma in 2010. It asks what the international reaction to France's actions tells us about the way in which Europe is deployed in debates over discrimination, minority rights and freedom of movement in national media. The article finds evidence in national publ…
Media and foreign policy in central and eastern Europe post 9/11: In from the cold
Most work on foreign policy and media influence focuses on Western media but the increasing prominence of central and eastern European countries in global politics (as members of the EU and NATO) means that the media—foreign policy relationship in these countries is assuming greater importance. This article addresses this gap by revisiting the question of media influence on foreign policy and the CNN effect debate from a non-US/UK, eastern Europe…
A system in chaos? Knowledge and sense-making on immigration policy in public debates
This article shows how press selection and presentation of knowledge and expertise relate to processes of sense-making over contemporary political dilemmas. It develops an approach that combines framing analysis with theoretical insights from the literature on narrative and complexity. It demonstrates the value of this approach through quantitative and qualitative analysis of media coverage of the UK government’s decision-making over access to th…
Sending and receiving: The ethical framing of intra-EU migration in the European press
Labour migration in the European Union (EU) has become a hot topic in public debates, particularly around the issue of European enlargement. The media are frequently criticized for stirring up debates around immigration but analysis has overlooked the underlying ethical justifications for migration controls. This article addresses this by developing an innovative approach that applies an ethical lens to media coverage of intra-EU migration. It sh…
Media power during humanitarian interventions: Is Eastern Europe any different from the West
The role of the media in foreign policymaking has been the subject of significant academic enquiry, particularly in response to the so-called ‘CNN effect’, but this work has mostly focused on prominent Western nations (particularly the United States). This article enlarges the debate by adding a comparative and post-communist perspective. Taking the Kosovo conflict as a case study, it analyses the role of the media in foreign policy in Bulgaria a…
Ethics, Politics and Migration: Public Debates on the Free Movement of Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK, 2006–2013
Public debates on immigration have become the subject of much concern, particularly in the UK. This article applies an ethical lens to assess changes in public debates over intra-EU migration in six UK national newspapers during 2006 and 2013. It finds an almost complete dominance of communitarian justifications, mainly based on welfare chauvinism, but a notable increase in security-related arguments and a decrease in economic nationalist ideas. …
Sending and receiving: The ethical framing of intra-EU migration in the European press
Labour migration in the European Union (EU) has become a hot topic in public debates, particularly around the issue of European enlargement. The media are frequently criticized for stirring up debates around immigration but analysis has overlooked the underlying ethical justifications for migration controls. This article addresses this by developing an innovative approach that applies an ethical lens to media coverage of intra-EU migration. It sh…
A deadly cocktail? The fusion of Europe and immigration in the UK press
This article asks how the EU is imagined and deployed in different justifications for national restrictions on the free movement of European citizens. It does this by analysing press coverage in the UK, where concerns about the issues of immigration and European integration contributed to a victory for ‘Brexit’ in the 2016 referendum. It develops a novel technique for analysing the political dimension of media debates offering a conceptual map to…
Norm destruction, norm resilience: The media and refugee protection in the UK and Hungary during Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis
Principles of refugee protection in Europe are said to have come under great pressure with the populist and nationalist backlash to the ‘migrant crisis’, often traced to illiberal regimes in post-communist countries. This paper tests these claims by comparatively analysing media coverage in the UK and Hungary, establishing the extent to which specific norms were challenged or upheld in April and September 2015. It develops a new methodology conne…
A system in chaos? Knowledge and sense-making on immigration policy in public debates
This article shows how press selection and presentation of knowledge and expertise relate to processes of sense-making over contemporary political dilemmas. It develops an approach that combines framing analysis with theoretical insights from the literature on narrative and complexity. It demonstrates the value of this approach through quantitative and qualitative analysis of media coverage of the UK government’s decision-making over access to th…
A Europe of Rights and Values? Public Debates on Sarkozy's Roma Affair in France, Bulgaria and Romania
This article analyses press coverage between July and October 2010 in three different European Union (EU) member states (France, Romania and Bulgaria) of the French government's expulsion of Roma in 2010. It asks what the international reaction to France's actions tells us about the way in which Europe is deployed in debates over discrimination, minority rights and freedom of movement in national media. The article finds evidence in national publ…
Media and foreign policy in central and eastern Europe post 9/11: In from the cold
Most work on foreign policy and media influence focuses on Western media but the increasing prominence of central and eastern European countries in global politics (as members of the EU and NATO) means that the media—foreign policy relationship in these countries is assuming greater importance. This article addresses this gap by revisiting the question of media influence on foreign policy and the CNN effect debate from a non-US/UK, eastern Europe…
Media, migration and human rights: Discourse and resistance in the context of the erosion of liberal norms
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Introduction: Communicating War
This special issue is a collection of articles drawn from the one-day international conference that took place in January 2011 at the University of Liverpool, organized and hosted by the Media and
Media power during humanitarian interventions: Is Eastern Europe any different from the West
The role of the media in foreign policymaking has been the subject of significant academic enquiry, particularly in response to the so-called ‘CNN effect’, but this work has mostly focused on prominent Western nations (particularly the United States). This article enlarges the debate by adding a comparative and post-communist perspective. Taking the Kosovo conflict as a case study, it analyses the role of the media in foreign policy in Bulgaria a…
Sending and receiving: The ethical framing of intra-EU migration in the European press
Labour migration in the European Union (EU) has become a hot topic in public debates, particularly around the issue of European enlargement. The media are frequently criticized for stirring up debates around immigration but analysis has overlooked the underlying ethical justifications for migration controls. This article addresses this by developing an innovative approach that applies an ethical lens to media coverage of intra-EU migration. It sh…
Media power during humanitarian interventions: Is Eastern Europe any different from the West
The role of the media in foreign policymaking has been the subject of significant academic enquiry, particularly in response to the so-called ‘CNN effect’, but this work has mostly focused on prominent Western nations (particularly the United States). This article enlarges the debate by adding a comparative and post-communist perspective. Taking the Kosovo conflict as a case study, it analyses the role of the media in foreign policy in Bulgaria a…
Media and foreign policy in central and eastern Europe post 9/11: In from the cold
Most work on foreign policy and media influence focuses on Western media but the increasing prominence of central and eastern European countries in global politics (as members of the EU and NATO) means that the media—foreign policy relationship in these countries is assuming greater importance. This article addresses this gap by revisiting the question of media influence on foreign policy and the CNN effect debate from a non-US/UK, eastern Europe…
A system in chaos? Knowledge and sense-making on immigration policy in public debates
This article shows how press selection and presentation of knowledge and expertise relate to processes of sense-making over contemporary political dilemmas. It develops an approach that combines framing analysis with theoretical insights from the literature on narrative and complexity. It demonstrates the value of this approach through quantitative and qualitative analysis of media coverage of the UK government’s decision-making over access to th…
Introduction: Communicating War
This special issue is a collection of articles drawn from the one-day international conference that took place in January 2011 at the University of Liverpool, organized and hosted by the Media and
US Foreign Policy in the European Media: Framing the Rise and Fall of Neoconservatism
A Europe of Rights and Values? Public Debates on Sarkozy's Roma Affair in France, Bulgaria and Romania
This article analyses press coverage between July and October 2010 in three different European Union (EU) member states (France, Romania and Bulgaria) of the French government's expulsion of Roma in 2010. It asks what the international reaction to France's actions tells us about the way in which Europe is deployed in debates over discrimination, minority rights and freedom of movement in national media. The article finds evidence in national publ…
Ethics, Politics and Migration: Public Debates on the Free Movement of Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK, 2006–2013
Public debates on immigration have become the subject of much concern, particularly in the UK. This article applies an ethical lens to assess changes in public debates over intra-EU migration in six UK national newspapers during 2006 and 2013. It finds an almost complete dominance of communitarian justifications, mainly based on welfare chauvinism, but a notable increase in security-related arguments and a decrease in economic nationalist ideas. …
Media, Wars and Politics: Comparing the Incomparable in Western and Eastern Europe
The interaction between media and foreign policy is a critical dimension of the so-called age of 'new military humanitarianism'. The media is now more effective in gathering and distributing information all over the world and media coverage of humanitarian wars allows for information and images to reach a wide audience with great immediacy and realism. For policy making, the 24/7 news cycle means high levels of exposure to fast-breaking internati…
A deadly cocktail? The fusion of Europe and immigration in the UK press
This article asks how the EU is imagined and deployed in different justifications for national restrictions on the free movement of European citizens. It does this by analysing press coverage in the UK, where concerns about the issues of immigration and European integration contributed to a victory for ‘Brexit’ in the 2016 referendum. It develops a novel technique for analysing the political dimension of media debates offering a conceptual map to…
Media, migration and human rights: Discourse and resistance in the context of the erosion of liberal norms
Preview this article: Media, migration and human rights, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jlp.20007.bal-1.gif
Norm destruction, norm resilience: The media and refugee protection in the UK and Hungary during Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis
Principles of refugee protection in Europe are said to have come under great pressure with the populist and nationalist backlash to the ‘migrant crisis’, often traced to illiberal regimes in post-communist countries. This paper tests these claims by comparatively analysing media coverage in the UK and Hungary, establishing the extent to which specific norms were challenged or upheld in April and September 2015. It develops a new methodology conne…
Regional Innovation in Arts Provision Spawned by Covid-19: “It Became a Lifeline for a Lot of People Who Are Stuck at Home”
Although the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural sector due to the closure of galleries, museums, arts venues, and other cultural assets represents a significant health risk, new opportunities for arts and cultural engagement have arisen. Interviews with 24 representatives including service providers and creative practitioners from 15 arts and cultural organizations within the Liverpool City Region were conducted. The …
Lifting lockdown: Renewed access to arts and cultural activities
As engagement in community and cultural activities plays a public health role, a hybrid delivery of arts and culture - ensuring continued online access alongside in-person provision - will be vital for people's recovery. Alongside efforts to reimagine arts in mental healthcare in the wake of the crisis caused by the pandemic, the role of arts and culture in providing stigma-free environments to reconnect the vulnerable and isolated is more critic…
Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press
This article presents the first systematic analysis of British press coverage regarding the legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights over 25 years (1997–2022). It finds that coverage undermining legitimacy falls into three main areas: limiting or eroding national sovereignty, inadequate performance or effectiveness and disrupting the ‘natural order’. Coverage supporting or defending legitimacy is ab…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · History (5 works)