Brentin, D;
(2013)
‘A lofty battle for the nation’: the social roles of sport in Tudjman's Croatia.
Sport in Society
, 16
(8)
993 - 1008.
10.1080/17430437.2013.801217.
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Abstract
In post-socialist Croatia, sport can be described as a unique source of social knowledge contributing greatly to the formation, establishment and conservation of the emerging national identity after the country's secession from socialist Yugoslavia in 1990–1991. Throughout the 1990s, sport, including interpretation, images, metaphors and actual events, proved to be a highly politicized form of national expression in which narratives of nation, identity and culture were intensely articulated. After all, the country's first president, Franjo Tudjman, proclaimed that ‘football victories shape a nation's identity as much as wars do’, showing a remarkable awareness of the galvanizing effect sport can have in times of crisis. This paper examines narratives expressed within the field, pointing out how ideological contents were transmitted through sport events, media reports and fan culture in order to show what functions and social roles sport had taken during the first 10 years of Croatian independence.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘A lofty battle for the nation’: the social roles of sport in Tudjman's Croatia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17430437.2013.801217 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2013.801217 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1456758 |
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