Recreational Football in Belgrade: Masculinity of Middle Аged Men Cover Image

Рекреативни (мали) фудбал у Београду: маскулинитет средовечних мушкараца
Recreational Football in Belgrade: Masculinity of Middle Аged Men

Author(s): Bojan Žikić
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sports Studies
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: recreational football; in-door football fields; Belgrade; masculinity; hegemonic masculinity; body techniques; leisure time.

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: LXIV/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 239-256
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian