CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Puđa, Dora |
|---|---|
| Title | Kick it! Escaping the Stigmatization of Croatia Through Football |
| Summary | Stigmatization corrupts the view of an entire nation and impacts their perception in the international community. Engaging with stigma and stigmatization has been primarily researched by Erving Goffman and Rebecca Adler-Nissen. Building on Adler-Nissen’s three particular approaches to stigmatization, which are accepting stigma, denying stigma or counter-stigmatization, this thesis proposes an additional way of engagement, which is escaping. In order to do so, this research looks at the relationship between stigmatization and its impact on the perception of a nation, as well as, the influence of football. This thesis will show that stereotypes lead to the stigmatization of a nation. Moreover, the aim is to show that there is another approach to stigmatization possible. This thesis focuses on Croatia which was stigmatized due to its past. In addition to that, the Homeland War in Croatia in the 90s and the leadership of President Franjo Tuđman were used to label Croatia as a violent Balkan country. The successful football results of Croatia from the 1998 and 2018 World Cups proved that a country is capable of escaping stigmatization. Thus, the work seeks to demonstrate that Croatia escaped this stigmatization through football. |
| Supervisor | Astrov, Alexander |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/puda_dora.pdf |
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