Naslov
Youth Activism and Sport: Legacy of Dražen Petrović and ‘heritage in making’

Autori
Vukušić, Dino ; Mustapić, Marko ; Perasović, Benjamin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Youth work in flux: an academic point of view on youth work training and education

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 15.06.2021. - 17.06.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
youth, social activism, sport, Dražen Petrović, heritage

Sažetak
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 with the implementation of individual, semi-structured interviews and walking interviews. Participatory observation lasted from March to September 2020 ; it took place in several phases, mostly conditioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. The first part of observation was performed through participating in and recording communication within social media as a virtual space ; after the lockdown, one of the authors of the report actively participated in the work of the 'Mi smo Cibona' (En. 'We are Cibona') youth group. The observed group of youth consisted of roughly 20 members between 21 and 27 years of age. 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 'Mi smo Cibona' and two young people unfamiliar with the topic of basketball. Due to the Corona virus measures and general atmosphere, we couldn’t organize focus groups. Six individual semi-structured interviews were held with selected members of 'Mi smo Cibona' in September. Young Cibona supporters gather at this heritage site in Zagreb and, in addition to attending Cibona matches, they symbolically mark the space, emphasising their devotion to the club and the legacy of Dražen Petrović. Members of 'Mi smo Cibona' emphasise the importance of preserving the heritage of Dražen Petrović and of Cibona as a symbol of Zagreb. 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. Respondents are open towards 'ethnic others' from all over Europe, especially the former Yugoslavia, where Dražen is still very popular. The respondents have internalised the heritage site as an everyday gathering place, where the collective memory of Dražen and the history of the club is constantly (re)constructed and where their social activism is directed towards correcting poor institutional practices. Research on the Dražen Petrović heritage site 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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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