Interwar Yugoslav state-building and the changing social position of the Sokol gymnastics movement
| Autor: | Pieter Troch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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allgemeine Geschichte
History peace time Zwischenkriegszeit media_common.quotation_subject soziale Bewegung Yugoslavia Dictatorship 03 medical and health sciences Politics 0302 clinical medicine Jugoslawien State (polity) Political science Geschichte 0502 economics and business Loyalty Sokol gymnastics Yugoslav Sokol Croatian Sokol state control Institution Social position politicization Sport media_common General History Voluntary association 05 social sciences 030229 sport sciences 16. Peace & justice State-building social movement Political economy sports ddc:900 050212 sport leisure & tourism Politisierung |
| Zdroj: | European Review of History |
| ISSN: | 1469-8293 1350-7486 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13507486.2018.1468735 |
| Popis: | The Sokol gymnastics movement was both in numbers and in spatial range one of the largest voluntary associations in interwar Yugoslavia. It was very active and visible, through numerous public activities at the local, regional, national and even international level, prestigious new halls and regular publications and media presence. In giving a historical overview of the Sokol movement against the background of interwar Yugoslav state-building, this article focusses on the politicisation and state incorporation of the association. During the 1920s, the Sokol served as a proxy for local and regional political struggles between centralist and decentralist parties in the Croatian part of the country. Under the Royal Dictatorship, the Sokol movement developed into a compulsory and state-controlled institution for physical and national education. This article argues that the incorporation of the Sokol movement in the state-controlled civil sphere was not a one-directional development. The Sokol movement itself made use of the central state’s predisposition towards state control over associative culture for internal institutional purposes. In the process, however, the social position of the Sokol movement transformed from a voluntary association that could mediate between state and society into an exclusive marker of loyalty to nation and state. |
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