Naslov
Making Multiculturalism: Croatians and Australian Soccer since 1945

Autori
Drapac, Vesna ; Hrstić, Ivan

Izvornik
University of Adelaide (gostujuće predavanje)

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2022

Ključne riječi
Croatians, Australia, diaspora, soccer, multiculturalism

Sažetak
Currently there are thirty-five diasporic Croatian soccer clubs in Australia and the Croatian Football Association of Australia has been organising national tournaments annually since 1975. Within eight years of its founding in 1952, Adelaide Croatia recruited Australian Indigenous players, some of whom went on to become leading public and political figures. Moreover, Croatian clubs in Australia have been promoting women’s soccer for over forty years and women’s teams compete in the national tournaments. But we know relatively little about the long history and broader social and cultural consequences of the engagement of diasporic Croatians with soccer. The premise of our study is that the associational life of ethnic soccer clubs constituted a form of voluntary civic engagement that was fundamental in promoting multiculturalism avant la lettre. We take the example of Croatian soccer clubs as our starting point for this study both because of their rich sporting history and because of the politicised and sometimes controversial relationship between those clubs and Croatian identity formation in opposition to Yugoslavia and Yugoslavism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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