Open AccessRecreational football in Belgrade: Masculinity of middle-aged men
Author(s) -
Bojan Žikić
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei1602239z
Subject(s) - masculinity , hegemonic masculinity , football , recreation , gender studies , state (computer science) , sociology , history , political science , law , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
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