Politics on the Football Field. An Overview of the Relationship between Ideology and Sport in Serbia
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This paper focuses on the historical context of the interrelation of sports and ideology in Serbia. Firstly, it focuses on the period between the end of WWII and the end of the 1980s, as well as on
the role of sports in the activities of the communist and socialist ideology in Yugoslavia. Secondly, it demonstrates the ways in which football fans assumed the role of the carriers of nationalistic ideology in the political occurrences of the final decade of the twentieth century. The third segment of the paper brings into focus the activities of football fans in the new millennium when, after the wars of the 1990s, Serbia, at least nominally, became a state that internalizes “European values“, and ensured its position of an EU-acceding country. The central argument of the paper refers to the historically conditioned positioning of football fans that, as a group, still hold the role of an important political actor. They simultaneously act as subjects of the neo-liberal politics of the Eur...opean periphery and keepers of the “national spirit“, which can be let out of the bottle again, if and when needed.
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Serbia / former Yugoslavia / football / ideology / socialism / postsocialismSource:
Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe, 2019, 153-177Publisher:
- Moscow : N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
- Belgrade : Institute of Ethnography SASA
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- Cultural heritage and identity (RS-177026)
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Етнографски институт САНУ / Institute of Ethnography SASATY - CHAP AU - Đorđević, Ivan PY - 2019 UR - https://etno-institut.co.rs/storage/5/5e5a44c7dea76_32_compressed-%281%29.pdf UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/7468 AB - This paper focuses on the historical context of the interrelation of sports and ideology in Serbia. Firstly, it focuses on the period between the end of WWII and the end of the 1980s, as well as on the role of sports in the activities of the communist and socialist ideology in Yugoslavia. Secondly, it demonstrates the ways in which football fans assumed the role of the carriers of nationalistic ideology in the political occurrences of the final decade of the twentieth century. The third segment of the paper brings into focus the activities of football fans in the new millennium when, after the wars of the 1990s, Serbia, at least nominally, became a state that internalizes “European values“, and ensured its position of an EU-acceding country. The central argument of the paper refers to the historically conditioned positioning of football fans that, as a group, still hold the role of an important political actor. They simultaneously act as subjects of the neo-liberal politics of the European periphery and keepers of the “national spirit“, which can be let out of the bottle again, if and when needed. PB - Moscow : N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences PB - Belgrade : Institute of Ethnography SASA T2 - Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe T1 - Politics on the Football Field. An Overview of the Relationship between Ideology and Sport in Serbia SP - 153 EP - 177 DO - 10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/153-177 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7468 ER -
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Đorđević, I.. (2019). Politics on the Football Field. An Overview of the Relationship between Ideology and Sport in Serbia. in Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe Moscow : N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences., 153-177. https://doi.org/10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/153-177 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7468
Đorđević I. Politics on the Football Field. An Overview of the Relationship between Ideology and Sport in Serbia. in Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe. 2019;:153-177. doi:10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/153-177 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7468 .
Đorđević, Ivan, "Politics on the Football Field. An Overview of the Relationship between Ideology and Sport in Serbia" in Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe (2019):153-177, https://doi.org/10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/153-177 ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7468 .