Life saving bottles – constructing the perception of bottle collectors

• Main Author: Gašparović, Ena
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: Croatian
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: scipo; socio; sami
• Online Access: http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/10669/1/Gasparovic,%20Ena%20-%20Boce%20koje%20zivot%20znace%20%28diplomski%20rad%29.pdf; http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/10669/

This paper deals with underrepresented population of bottle collectors in Croatia. In 2008. a bottle deposit in amount of 0,50 kunas per unit was introduced for PET, glass and Alu/Fe packaging. In the wake of following economic recession a large number of citiziens found collecting bottles as informal means of generating an additional income, and for some of them the only one. In this research bottle collectors are approached as heterogeneous population which creates its own perception on the activity of bottle collecting. The aim of this paper was to indicate how collectors themselves perceive this activity and how the media is creating perception about them. Qualitative methods were used: participant observation, interviews and analysis of media texts on the Internet. According to the used methods, the paper is divided into two units, the first one analyzing the narratives of bottle collector about their perception and the second one where creation of media image about them is discussed. Rad se bavi podzastupljenom skupinom sakupljača boca u Hrvatskoj. 2008. godine uvedena je povratna naknada za PET, staklenu i Alu/Fe ambalažu u iznosu od 0,50 kn po boci. U jeku ekonomske recesije koja je uslijedila veliki broj građana pronašao je u neformalnom radu sakupljanja boca na ulicama gradova dodatni, a velikom broju i jedini izvor zarade. Heterogenoj populaciji sakupljača boca u ovom istraživanju pristupa se kao aktivnim društvenim akterima koji stvaraju vlastitu percepciju o sakupljanja boca. Cilj rada bio je prikazati kako sakupljači sami stvaraju percepciju o toj aktivnosti, a kako mediji pisanjem o njima. U istraživanju korištene su kvalitativne metode – promatranje sa sudjelovanje, intervjui s kazivačima i analiza medijskih tekstova na internetu. Sukladno korištenim metodama rad je podijeljen na dvije cjeline, prvu koju kroz kazivanja analiziram percepciju sakupljača boca i drugu u kojoj se razmatra kakvu sliku o njima stvaraju mediji.