Matthew Klugman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3804796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Klugman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Klugman |
| SIGNATURE | KLUGMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0554-6761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Keeping a Lid On It’
Scholars have argued that newspaper coverage played a vital role in fuelling the rapid emergence of American football, baseball, and Association football (in England) into dominant forms of popular culture. In burgeoning colonial Melbourne, horse racing enjoyed extensive press exposure, whereas the immensely popular Australian Rules football, codified in 1859, had thrived despite receiving limited newspaper coverage. Indeed, in a curious circumst…
Sport has never been binary
Over the last two centuries, sports have become one of the most powerful sites for the public imposition, regulation, and maintenance of the rigid colonial binaries of men and women, as well as boys and girls. As part of this, sports have become a site of increasingly hostile debate and intervention regarding the participation of trans women and trans girls. Nonbinary athletes have received far less attention. Yet a focus on those people who are …
Beyond Sites of Memory
Images of sport have been frequently used to represent Australia to the world as well as itself. Yet unlike other representations of Australia, the history of visual depictions of Australian sport has not been studied in any detail. We want to begin the process of exploring what is at stake in the history of Australian sporting iconography, along with the way that this iconography has been contested and might be further disrupted. We examine how …
The Other Olympians
Trans* Athletes in Sport
Debates over the position(ing) of trans* athletes in sport have been reignited in the last decade because of the confluence of broader political debates over the provision of rights of self-identification for trans* people with the International Olympic Committee’s decision to place responsibility for transgender regulations in the hands of international sporting federations. The effect of this confluence has meant a regressive shift back toward …
Through a long lens
Protests against racism in Australian sport have a long history, with many notable actors, agents and incidents. Of these, the on-field protest against racial abuse in Australian rules football by an Aboriginal player, Nicky Winmar, produced Australia’s most famous image of race and sport. While the moment was captured in 1993, it has reverberated throughout the intervening three decades, and the image of Winmar lifting his jersey to point proudl…
Football is life
This paper takes the cultural text of Association football (soccer) and some media texts created in response to it, to explore the passions linked to the game. In particular, we examine several poems and ‘recitativo’ (spoken moments in musical performances) to trace some links between the notions of love, suffering and madness that are referred to so often in conversations regarding the cultural texts of Association football. As part of this we d…
A Forgotten Picture
A dramatic photograph, published in 1994, depicted Australian athlete Cathy Freeman running at Northcote's Koori Mural in inner-north Melbourne, beneath scenes of Aboriginal elders in chains in the late nineteenth century. Two months later, she famously posed for photographs carrying the Aboriginal flag in a victory lap following her win in the 400 metres at the Commonwealth Games. While the flag photographs remain an iconic image of sport and ra…
Genus barracker’
This article uses the emergence of the cultural category of barrackers in 1880s colonial Melbourne to examine the way a spectator sport became a site of intersecting discourses around emotions, health, science, class, citizenship, masculinity, and partisanship. Drawing on suburban newspapers it traces those aspects of barracking that were disturbing and thrilling enough to occasion the popularisation of a new noun and verb. The article also explo…
Re-Creating Home and Exploring Away in New Cities
Migrants are often characterized as in search of new homes, while spectator sports are frequently spoken of as providing homes for the followers of particular teams. However the particular kinds of ‘homes’ that spectator sports can provide for migrants is understudied. This paper explores the sporting ‘homes’ found by those who migrated from Italy to Australia after the Second World War. In particular it examines the different experiences of thos…
No Pangs of Conscience’
For over 140 years, Australian Rules football has been one of the most popular sporting pastimes in the rural south west of the Australian state of Victoria. Yet, the meaning and impact of this football code in regional Australia remains relatively uncharted. This paper begins the process of redressing the gap by examining recollections of the emergence of the sport in south west Victoria produced in the late 1930s by a writer with the pen-name ‘…
The Invincibles
The Invincibles: New Norcia’s Aboriginal Cricketers, 1879–1906." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 297–298
The Passionate, Pathologized Bodies of Sports Fans
The passions of spectators have played a vital role in the transformation of games like baseball, Association football, and Australian Rules football into strikingly powerful institutions of popular culture, yet these spectators have largely remained on the margins of sports history. One reason for this has been the difficulty in tracing the various terms and phrases used to describe spectator cultures through the print archive of one sport, let …
Towards a Pre-History of Disability Sport in Victoria, Australia
The history of disability sport is an emerging field. However, much of the work in this area has tended to focus on celebratory accounts of the Paralympics. Accordingly, what is needed are histories that focus on the experiences of individual athletes that avoid the trope of positioning them as ‘tragic’ figures rescued from lives of misery. At issue are narratives of empowerment, progress and agency. This paper responds to this challenge with a ‘…
Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Pleasure
This paper explores descriptions, commentary and critiques regarding the Melbourne women who came to follow Australian Rules football with notable passion in the late 1800s and early 1900s. While it is known that the press represented female spectators in various ways, the depictions of the women who shouted and ‘barracked’ in a manner similar to the men have not been studied in detail. This paper aims to redress this by drawing on the women’s an…
Aboriginal Rules
This paper is interested in the significance of Australian football to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. In particular, this paper is interested in the cultural power of football and how it has foregrounded the struggle and highlighted the contribution that Indigenous people have made to the national football code of Australia. This paper also discusses key moments in Indigenous football history in Australia. It quest…
I Love Him in an Absolutely Gay Way
Elite male spectator sports have been problematized as sites that play a key role in molding and regulating a gender order dominated by an aggressive hegemonic masculinity that is patterned on male sporting heroes. This article explores instead the love, devotion, and desires that some male fans feel for these male sporting heroes. Drawing on fragments from Australian and US online fan forums, together with interviews with Australian Rules Footba…
Developing the recognition and response skills of student nurses
Acute deteriorations in health occur in all healthcare settings. Every health professional must therefore have the knowledge and skills to recognise and respond effectively to acute illness, in order to avert further deterioration. It is widely acknowledged that a robust understanding of physiological observations, in addition to effective interpretation and clinical decision-making skills, is required for this task ( Odell et al, 2009 ; Steen, 2…
Connected to Something’
This paper explores the importance soccer can play in the lives, identities and memories of migrants by drawing on 32 oral history interviews conducted with Italians who settled in Sydney in the 1950s and 1960s. Sport can provide an illuminating lens for analysing the experience of migrants, because not only are sports sites of individual, regional, national and transnational identities, they can also facilitate social inclusion or, conversely, b…
‘Roma non dimentica i suoi figli’
Italian football is renowned as much for the passion of its spectators as it is for the quality of its players, yet these spectators are understudied. Those studies that have been conducted have generally focused on the problems of violence and racism associated with some of the more extreme supporters, the so-called ultras . This paper aims to complement that research by analysing a different aspect of the passions of Italian spectators, namely …
Gendered Pleasures, Power, Limits, and Suspicions
Feminist sports histories have sought to give voice to the experiences and subjectivities of female athletes and increasingly of female sports fans. Yet the passions of female sports fans have been neglected. This paper traces the affects and subjectivities of female followers of Australian Rules football by way of indepth interviews along with the writings of, and about, female fans. More specifically, it contrasts the relatively inclusive passi…
The Gay Games
The Gay Games represent a significant intervention in world sport. From their inception in 1982 as a local, countercultural Californian sports meet to a multimillion dollar international celebratio
Football is a Fever Disease Like Recurrent Malaria and Evidently Incurable’
This paper traces the emergence of an Anti-Football League in Melbourne in the late 1960s. In so doing it charts the way the extremely rapid transformation of Melbourne in the 1850s from a frontier town to a major metropolis set the scene for the emergence of a new form of football whose ensuing popularity was all the more noteworthy for the way it transcended (at least partially) traditional barriers of class and gender. The result was that all …
Loves, Suffering and Identification
The people of Melbourne are renowned for their ‘football fever’, yet this fever is under-studied. This paper addresses this fever by exploring the loves, suffering, and strange identifications of Australian Football League fans. Building on and complicating Freud's theories of group psychology, I argue that love, or rather two loves, are at the heart of the experience of being a fan. Fans love their club in a manner that incorporates the club int…
Loves, Suffering and Identification
The people of Melbourne are renowned for their ‘football fever’, yet this fever is under-studied. This paper addresses this fever by exploring the loves, suffering, and strange identifications of Australian Football League fans. Building on and complicating Freud's theories of group psychology, I argue that love, or rather two loves, are at the heart of the experience of being a fan. Fans love their club in a manner that incorporates the club int…
Connected to Something’
This paper explores the importance soccer can play in the lives, identities and memories of migrants by drawing on 32 oral history interviews conducted with Italians who settled in Sydney in the 1950s and 1960s. Sport can provide an illuminating lens for analysing the experience of migrants, because not only are sports sites of individual, regional, national and transnational identities, they can also facilitate social inclusion or, conversely, b…
Aboriginal Rules
This paper is interested in the significance of Australian football to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. In particular, this paper is interested in the cultural power of football and how it has foregrounded the struggle and highlighted the contribution that Indigenous people have made to the national football code of Australia. This paper also discusses key moments in Indigenous football history in Australia. It quest…
I Love Him in an Absolutely Gay Way
Elite male spectator sports have been problematized as sites that play a key role in molding and regulating a gender order dominated by an aggressive hegemonic masculinity that is patterned on male sporting heroes. This article explores instead the love, devotion, and desires that some male fans feel for these male sporting heroes. Drawing on fragments from Australian and US online fan forums, together with interviews with Australian Rules Footba…
Football is life
This paper takes the cultural text of Association football (soccer) and some media texts created in response to it, to explore the passions linked to the game. In particular, we examine several poems and ‘recitativo’ (spoken moments in musical performances) to trace some links between the notions of love, suffering and madness that are referred to so often in conversations regarding the cultural texts of Association football. As part of this we d…
Re-Creating Home and Exploring Away in New Cities
Migrants are often characterized as in search of new homes, while spectator sports are frequently spoken of as providing homes for the followers of particular teams. However the particular kinds of ‘homes’ that spectator sports can provide for migrants is understudied. This paper explores the sporting ‘homes’ found by those who migrated from Italy to Australia after the Second World War. In particular it examines the different experiences of thos…
Gendered Pleasures, Power, Limits, and Suspicions
Feminist sports histories have sought to give voice to the experiences and subjectivities of female athletes and increasingly of female sports fans. Yet the passions of female sports fans have been neglected. This paper traces the affects and subjectivities of female followers of Australian Rules football by way of indepth interviews along with the writings of, and about, female fans. More specifically, it contrasts the relatively inclusive passi…
Football is a Fever Disease Like Recurrent Malaria and Evidently Incurable’
This paper traces the emergence of an Anti-Football League in Melbourne in the late 1960s. In so doing it charts the way the extremely rapid transformation of Melbourne in the 1850s from a frontier town to a major metropolis set the scene for the emergence of a new form of football whose ensuing popularity was all the more noteworthy for the way it transcended (at least partially) traditional barriers of class and gender. The result was that all …
Trans* Athletes in Sport
Debates over the position(ing) of trans* athletes in sport have been reignited in the last decade because of the confluence of broader political debates over the provision of rights of self-identification for trans* people with the International Olympic Committee’s decision to place responsibility for transgender regulations in the hands of international sporting federations. The effect of this confluence has meant a regressive shift back toward …
A Forgotten Picture
A dramatic photograph, published in 1994, depicted Australian athlete Cathy Freeman running at Northcote's Koori Mural in inner-north Melbourne, beneath scenes of Aboriginal elders in chains in the late nineteenth century. Two months later, she famously posed for photographs carrying the Aboriginal flag in a victory lap following her win in the 400 metres at the Commonwealth Games. While the flag photographs remain an iconic image of sport and ra…
Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Pleasure
This paper explores descriptions, commentary and critiques regarding the Melbourne women who came to follow Australian Rules football with notable passion in the late 1800s and early 1900s. While it is known that the press represented female spectators in various ways, the depictions of the women who shouted and ‘barracked’ in a manner similar to the men have not been studied in detail. This paper aims to redress this by drawing on the women’s an…
Loves, Suffering and Identification
The people of Melbourne are renowned for their ‘football fever’, yet this fever is under-studied. This paper addresses this fever by exploring the loves, suffering, and strange identifications of Australian Football League fans. Building on and complicating Freud's theories of group psychology, I argue that love, or rather two loves, are at the heart of the experience of being a fan. Fans love their club in a manner that incorporates the club int…
The Gay Games
The Gay Games represent a significant intervention in world sport. From their inception in 1982 as a local, countercultural Californian sports meet to a multimillion dollar international celebratio
Football is a Fever Disease Like Recurrent Malaria and Evidently Incurable’
This paper traces the emergence of an Anti-Football League in Melbourne in the late 1960s. In so doing it charts the way the extremely rapid transformation of Melbourne in the 1850s from a frontier town to a major metropolis set the scene for the emergence of a new form of football whose ensuing popularity was all the more noteworthy for the way it transcended (at least partially) traditional barriers of class and gender. The result was that all …
‘Roma non dimentica i suoi figli’
Italian football is renowned as much for the passion of its spectators as it is for the quality of its players, yet these spectators are understudied. Those studies that have been conducted have generally focused on the problems of violence and racism associated with some of the more extreme supporters, the so-called ultras . This paper aims to complement that research by analysing a different aspect of the passions of Italian spectators, namely …
Gendered Pleasures, Power, Limits, and Suspicions
Feminist sports histories have sought to give voice to the experiences and subjectivities of female athletes and increasingly of female sports fans. Yet the passions of female sports fans have been neglected. This paper traces the affects and subjectivities of female followers of Australian Rules football by way of indepth interviews along with the writings of, and about, female fans. More specifically, it contrasts the relatively inclusive passi…
Developing the recognition and response skills of student nurses
Acute deteriorations in health occur in all healthcare settings. Every health professional must therefore have the knowledge and skills to recognise and respond effectively to acute illness, in order to avert further deterioration. It is widely acknowledged that a robust understanding of physiological observations, in addition to effective interpretation and clinical decision-making skills, is required for this task ( Odell et al, 2009 ; Steen, 2…
Connected to Something’
This paper explores the importance soccer can play in the lives, identities and memories of migrants by drawing on 32 oral history interviews conducted with Italians who settled in Sydney in the 1950s and 1960s. Sport can provide an illuminating lens for analysing the experience of migrants, because not only are sports sites of individual, regional, national and transnational identities, they can also facilitate social inclusion or, conversely, b…
Aboriginal Rules
This paper is interested in the significance of Australian football to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. In particular, this paper is interested in the cultural power of football and how it has foregrounded the struggle and highlighted the contribution that Indigenous people have made to the national football code of Australia. This paper also discusses key moments in Indigenous football history in Australia. It quest…
I Love Him in an Absolutely Gay Way
Elite male spectator sports have been problematized as sites that play a key role in molding and regulating a gender order dominated by an aggressive hegemonic masculinity that is patterned on male sporting heroes. This article explores instead the love, devotion, and desires that some male fans feel for these male sporting heroes. Drawing on fragments from Australian and US online fan forums, together with interviews with Australian Rules Footba…
Towards a Pre-History of Disability Sport in Victoria, Australia
The history of disability sport is an emerging field. However, much of the work in this area has tended to focus on celebratory accounts of the Paralympics. Accordingly, what is needed are histories that focus on the experiences of individual athletes that avoid the trope of positioning them as ‘tragic’ figures rescued from lives of misery. At issue are narratives of empowerment, progress and agency. This paper responds to this challenge with a ‘…
Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Pleasure
This paper explores descriptions, commentary and critiques regarding the Melbourne women who came to follow Australian Rules football with notable passion in the late 1800s and early 1900s. While it is known that the press represented female spectators in various ways, the depictions of the women who shouted and ‘barracked’ in a manner similar to the men have not been studied in detail. This paper aims to redress this by drawing on the women’s an…
The Invincibles
The Invincibles: New Norcia’s Aboriginal Cricketers, 1879–1906." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 297–298
The Passionate, Pathologized Bodies of Sports Fans
The passions of spectators have played a vital role in the transformation of games like baseball, Association football, and Australian Rules football into strikingly powerful institutions of popular culture, yet these spectators have largely remained on the margins of sports history. One reason for this has been the difficulty in tracing the various terms and phrases used to describe spectator cultures through the print archive of one sport, let …
A Forgotten Picture
A dramatic photograph, published in 1994, depicted Australian athlete Cathy Freeman running at Northcote's Koori Mural in inner-north Melbourne, beneath scenes of Aboriginal elders in chains in the late nineteenth century. Two months later, she famously posed for photographs carrying the Aboriginal flag in a victory lap following her win in the 400 metres at the Commonwealth Games. While the flag photographs remain an iconic image of sport and ra…
Genus barracker’
This article uses the emergence of the cultural category of barrackers in 1880s colonial Melbourne to examine the way a spectator sport became a site of intersecting discourses around emotions, health, science, class, citizenship, masculinity, and partisanship. Drawing on suburban newspapers it traces those aspects of barracking that were disturbing and thrilling enough to occasion the popularisation of a new noun and verb. The article also explo…
Re-Creating Home and Exploring Away in New Cities
Migrants are often characterized as in search of new homes, while spectator sports are frequently spoken of as providing homes for the followers of particular teams. However the particular kinds of ‘homes’ that spectator sports can provide for migrants is understudied. This paper explores the sporting ‘homes’ found by those who migrated from Italy to Australia after the Second World War. In particular it examines the different experiences of thos…
No Pangs of Conscience’
For over 140 years, Australian Rules football has been one of the most popular sporting pastimes in the rural south west of the Australian state of Victoria. Yet, the meaning and impact of this football code in regional Australia remains relatively uncharted. This paper begins the process of redressing the gap by examining recollections of the emergence of the sport in south west Victoria produced in the late 1930s by a writer with the pen-name ‘…
Football is life
This paper takes the cultural text of Association football (soccer) and some media texts created in response to it, to explore the passions linked to the game. In particular, we examine several poems and ‘recitativo’ (spoken moments in musical performances) to trace some links between the notions of love, suffering and madness that are referred to so often in conversations regarding the cultural texts of Association football. As part of this we d…
Through a long lens
Protests against racism in Australian sport have a long history, with many notable actors, agents and incidents. Of these, the on-field protest against racial abuse in Australian rules football by an Aboriginal player, Nicky Winmar, produced Australia’s most famous image of race and sport. While the moment was captured in 1993, it has reverberated throughout the intervening three decades, and the image of Winmar lifting his jersey to point proudl…
Trans* Athletes in Sport
Debates over the position(ing) of trans* athletes in sport have been reignited in the last decade because of the confluence of broader political debates over the provision of rights of self-identification for trans* people with the International Olympic Committee’s decision to place responsibility for transgender regulations in the hands of international sporting federations. The effect of this confluence has meant a regressive shift back toward …
Beyond Sites of Memory
Images of sport have been frequently used to represent Australia to the world as well as itself. Yet unlike other representations of Australia, the history of visual depictions of Australian sport has not been studied in any detail. We want to begin the process of exploring what is at stake in the history of Australian sporting iconography, along with the way that this iconography has been contested and might be further disrupted. We examine how …
The Other Olympians
Keeping a Lid On It’
Scholars have argued that newspaper coverage played a vital role in fuelling the rapid emergence of American football, baseball, and Association football (in England) into dominant forms of popular culture. In burgeoning colonial Melbourne, horse racing enjoyed extensive press exposure, whereas the immensely popular Australian Rules football, codified in 1859, had thrived despite receiving limited newspaper coverage. Indeed, in a curious circumst…
Sport has never been binary
Over the last two centuries, sports have become one of the most powerful sites for the public imposition, regulation, and maintenance of the rigid colonial binaries of men and women, as well as boys and girls. As part of this, sports have become a site of increasingly hostile debate and intervention regarding the participation of trans women and trans girls. Nonbinary athletes have received far less attention. Yet a focus on those people who are …
Sociology (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Football (12 works) · History (12 works) · Media studies (12 works)