Recreational football in Belgrade: Masculinity of middle-aged men

The construction of masculinity in 40 to 50 year old men is examined on the example of playing recreational football at the Belgrade indoor soccer fields from the second half of the first decade of this century onwards. Playing football is seen as a particular form of male body use in organ...

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Main Author:	Žikić Bojan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade 2016-01-01
Series:	Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
Subjects:	recreational football in-door football fields Belgrade masculinity hegemonic masculinity body techniques leisure time
Online Access:	http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2016/0350-08611602239Z.pdf

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title	Recreational football in Belgrade: Masculinity of middle-aged men
title_short	Recreational football in Belgrade: Masculinity of middle-aged men
title_full	Recreational football in Belgrade: Masculinity of middle-aged men
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publisher	Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
series	Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
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publishDate	2016-01-01
description	The construction of masculinity in 40 to 50 year old men is examined on the example of playing recreational football at the Belgrade indoor soccer fields from the second half of the first decade of this century onwards. Playing football is seen as a particular form of male body use in organizing individual leisure time and its symbolical use in establishing notions of masculinity. The theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity is problematized and it is shown that it does not reflect the empirically determined state in our surroundings. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177018]
topic	recreational football in-door football fields Belgrade masculinity hegemonic masculinity body techniques leisure time
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Recreational football in Belgrade: Masculinity of middle-aged men

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