Sport in Socialist Yugoslavia

ISBN-13: 9780367585174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Dario Brentin; Dejan Zec

Opis

This collection offers a scholarly introduction into the myriad social functions sport performed during the Yugoslav socialist project. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Spis treści

1. From the Concept of the Communist ‘New Man’ to Nationalist Hooliganism: Research Perspectives on Sport in Socialist Yugoslavia Dario Brentin and Dejan Zec 2. How Falcons Became Partizans Hrvoje Klasić 3. How Doing Sport Became a Culture: Producing the Concept of Physical Cultivation of the Yugoslavs Ana Petrov  4. Gender Policies and Amateur Sports in Early Yugoslav Socialism Ivan Simić  5. Like a Bridge Over Troubled Adriatic Water: The Complex Relationship between Italian and Yugoslavian Sporting Diplomacy (1945-1954) Nicola Sbetti  6. Laying the Foundations of Physical Culture: The Stadium Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia Richard Mills  7. FC Red Star Belgrade and the Multiplicity of Social Identifications in Socialist Yugoslavia: Representative Dimensions of the ‘Big Four’ Football Clubs Martin Blasius  8. The 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics and Identity-Formation in Late Socialist Sarajevo Zlatko Jovanovic  9. Blind-Alleys on the Road to Communism: ‘Isms’ of the Automobile Sport in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-1992 Marko Miljković

O autorze

Dario Brentin is Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and a PhD candidate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, UK, working on sport, politics and ideology in the post-Yugoslav region.

Dejan Zec is a Researcher at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, and a PhD candidate at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has published widely on social history, history of everyday life, sport and leisure history, and history of health care in former Yugoslavia.