The Croat Fortress and the Cave Dwellers

Dr. Massimiliano Maidano; Dr. Gary Armstrong

doi:10.5771/9783985721443

Summary

This book is a study of a people and a place and various performances in a post-conflict milieu that was once known as the state of Yugoslavia. A war between three militaries between 1991–95 was ended with the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA) and whilst the fighting stopped, the grievances remained. The Skripari consider themselves the vanguard of a football inspired ethno-political nationalism that has at times centuries old antecedents. Who in this post-conflict political milieu might compromise- and how and with whom- and in the face of what reasoning? Such postulations seek further answers around what were - or might be - the structures, contexts, and issues which frustrate or might facilitate the pursuit of a post-conflict civil society.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98572-143-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98572-144-3
Publisher: Academia, Baden-Baden
Series: Academia Sport
Volume: 59
Language: English
Pages: 430
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 30
1. Chapter 1: Power, The Civil And Stigma No access
1. 1. Landscapes and Memories No access
  2. New Contests: Meat and Heirs No access
  3. Join Our Club No access
  4. The Kingdom Come No access
  5. The Liberty of Communism No access
  6. Defining and Resisting No access
  7. The Collapse of a Nation No access
  8. Voting Behaviours No access
  9. An Independent State of Conflict No access
  10. Challenging the Vote No access
  11. Sides and Genocide No access
  12. Memory and Massacre: Vukovar No access
  13. The Bridge of Sighs No access
  14. Football: Formations and Failings No access
  15. Porous Borders No access
  16. Friends and Enemies No access
  17. Friends Abroad, Reputations at Home No access
  18. Winning the Peace No access
  19. Fairness and Representation No access
  20. The Culture Wars No access
1. 1. Liminal and Hegemonic Considerations No access
  2. Football and the Master of Ceremonies No access
  3. Lessons from Football No access
  4. Controlling the Game No access
  5. Antiquity and Hegemonies No access
  6. The Empire States No access
  7. Partisan Sentiment No access
  8. Pre and Post War No access
  9. Contemporary Civil Society No access
  10. Football and Suppressed Identity No access
  11. A Football Club in the Post Conflict No access
  12. The People and the Nation No access
  13. The Nation at Play: Veterans Voices No access
2. 1. Names and Fields No access
  2. 1. (I) Football and War Stories: Široki Brijeg No access
    2. (II) Statues and Limitations (2014): The Living and the Dead No access
    3. (III) Shooting Minus the War 2014 No access
    4. (IV) Croats and Serbs: A Marriage of Convenience No access
    5. (V) Further Croatian Questions No access
3. 1. Followers of Fashion? No access
  2. Joining the Cave Dwellers No access
  3. The Times of the Cave Dwellers No access
  4. The Boys of the Town? No access
  5. Time-Out and the Call to Alms No access
  6. The Contexts of Violence No access
  7. The Keyboard Warriors No access
  8. Wider Oppositional Situations No access
  9. Leadership and Morality No access
  10. Ostracism: Partial and Informal No access
  11. The Boundaries of the State No access
  12. The Warriors in the Civic No access
  13. Destiny’s Children No access
1. 1. Constituent Peoples and Blood Rights No access
  2. Aged Performances No access
  3. The Calling and the Letters No access
  4. Entities and Naming Rights No access
  5. Divine Appointment No access
  6. Checks and Balances No access
  7. Ustaše Formation No access
  8. Prohibition and Disobedience No access
  9. Belief and Action No access
  10. Words and Symbols No access
  11. Competitions and Cultural Consumption No access
  12. Right Thinking and Learned No access
  13. Unappreciated Solutions No access
  14. Flowers and Weeds No access
  15. Sentiment or Posturing? No access
2. 1. Learning and Controlling Misrule No access
  2. The Rules of Disorder No access
  3. Deviant or Different? No access
  4. Determinism and Proclivities No access
  5. Class and Status No access
  6. Work Hard, Play Hard: Masculine Capital No access
  7. Work Hard, Play Hard No access
  8. Girls in the Gang? No access
  9. Gender Representation No access
  10. Not One of Us? No access
  11. Words and Deeds No access
  12. Piety and Performance No access
  13. Service and Intellect No access
  14. Robes and Riches No access
  15. Ordination Practices No access
  16. Looks and Liberation No access
  17. Tolerance of Identity No access
  18. Speaking and the Unspoken No access
  19. Youth and Civil Society No access
  20. Football Contests No access
3. 1. Negotiations and Contact Groups No access
  2. Police and Thieves No access
  3. Culture Clubs and Corruptions No access
  4. Blame the Referee No access
  5. Playing the Field No access
  6. Politics in Everything No access
  7. The End of the Party No access
  8. Investments and Retainers No access
  9. Agency and Protection No access
  10. The War Collateral No access
  11. Moralities and Legitimacies No access
  12. Big Enough for Whom? No access
  13. The President (non) Elect No access
  14. Money and Selection: Ethno-Political Considerations No access
  15. Political Football: Powerful Figures and Generosity No access
  16. Presidential Matters No access
  17. Trust No-One No access
  18. Changing Sides No access
  19. The Assembly: Speaking and Doing No access
  20. Purity and Danger No access
  21. Islam and Its Discontents No access
4. 1. Practice and Place No access
  2. Governance and Legitimacy No access
  3. Party and Protest No access
  4. In Honour of Whom? No access
  5. People Like Us? No access
  6. Tolerance and The Civic No access
  7. History & Redemption No access
  8. The Body Politic & Male Uniformity No access
  9. The Limits of Co-Existence No access
  10. Football Performances No access
  11. Zonal Marking No access
  12. The Contest Considered No access
  13. Appellatives and Consequences No access
  14. Reflections on the ultras No access
5. Epilogue: Quo Vadis No access Pages 377 - 384
Photo Gallery No access Pages 385 - 392
References No access Pages 393 - 430