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In the case of Croatia, sport has proved to be a highly politicized form of national expression, functioning as a salient social field in which its "national habitus codes" are most intensively articulated, debated, and contested. An incident emblematizing this argument occurred on 19 November 2013, when the Croatian national football team secured their qualification for the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil. In front of the 25,000 people at Zagreb'sMaksimirstadium, the national team player, Josip Simunić, grabbed the microphone and "greeted" all four stands with a loud chanting ofZa dom(For the home(land)), to which the stands thunderously respondedspremni(ready), the official salute of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist WWII quisling-state. This paper argues that the issue extends beyond politically radicalized football hooligans and has to be understood from the standpoint of "social memory." By focusing on football, the article scrutinizes debates in the Croatian public sphere dealing with the saluteZa dom – spremni.Providing an insight into its complex and multi-layered nature, this paper illustrates that Croatian football has to be understood as a field in which social memory is prominently constructed, heatedly articulated, and powerfully disseminated.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Introduction: social movements and protests in Southeast Europe -- a new tragedy of the commons?; 1 Divided they stand: peace building, state reconstruction and informal political movements in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2005-2013; 2 Maribor's social uprising in the European crisis: from antipolitics of people to politicisation of periphery's surplus population; 3 The 'stronger state' and counter-democracy: Bulgarian street protests, 2012-2013, in the accounts of participants; 4 The spaces of social mobilisation in Greece5 At the crossroads of cultural and ideological exchange -- behind the visual communications of 2012-2013 Slovene protests; 6 Social media and the 'Balkan spring'; 7 'Missing the forest for the trees': from single-issue protests to resonant mass-movements in Greece, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina; 8 Are the Balkans different? Mapping protest politics in post-communist Southeastern Europe; 9 The international context of mass political unrest in the Balkans -- conceptual issues and perspectives; Index