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Sport and Youth Activism: Basketball and ‘Heritage in Making’ in Zagreb

The general goal of our research is to explain the social activism of youth at the heritage site related to the heritage of Dražen Petrović and current events at KK Cibona Zagreb basketball club. The data for our research was gathered through the ethnographic method (March to September 2020) with the implementation of individual, semi-structured interviews and walking interviews. The observed group of youth consisted of 20 members (between 21 and 27 years). In addition to ethnographic research, several observations were made at the heritage site itself, which consists of a museum, a square with a monument, a basketball hall, and the surrounding public spaces. In September, three walking interviews were conducted at the heritage site, in groups consisting of two young members of We are Cibona' and two young people unfamiliar with the topic of basketball. Six individual semi-structured interviews were held with in September 2020. Members of 'We are Cibona' emphasise the importance of preserving the heritage of Dražen Petrović. The heritage site shapes the formal and informal context of education for the development of the cultural knowledge of youth, encouraging them to undertake intercultural dialogue and fight corruption and clientelism in sport. What connects the activists and significantly differentiates them from 'outsiders' in the walking interviews are the club identity and collective memory of Dražen Petrović. Research has shown that this space of the cultural action of youth represents an important space of tolerance, intercultural dialogue, and the affirmation of the democratic potential of youth in Zagreb.

youth, social activism, sport, Dražen Petrović, heritage

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