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Football fans as subcultural actors of glocalisation: Notes from the field in Croatia

One of the key effects of globalisation process is weakening of the nation state (Beck, 2000). There is also parallel process of glocalisation (Robertson, 1994). From the 1950-s, youth subcultural styles dispersed from anglo-saxon 'core' to various peripheries, contributing to our knowledge of global-glocal relation. Gulianotti and Robertson (2007) consider sport as clear example of interferences between globalisation and glocalisation, and Pilkington (2004) emphasized the importance of youth cultural strategies that manage glocal lives. Within the history of European modernisation processes, Croatian society was always at the periphery. Croatian transition was determined by the Homeland war 1991-1995. Our research is a part of FP7 project MYPLACE. Main method was ethnography , and the aim of this study is to explore football fans subculture in Croatia and its role in glocalisation process. Subculture of football fans became topic of sociological research in the second half of the 1980-s. One of the main characteristics of Torcida is passionate involvement in construction of Croatian national identity, with the emphasis on the Homeland war. Our research showed that the spectrum of meanings of national identity within Torcida goes beyond dichotomy 'nationalism vs. globalisation'. The play with ascribed and achieved identities within the subculture of the fans indicates multidimensionality of the glocal life

football fans; youth; subculture; glocalisation; ethnography; Croatia

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