Ian Syson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Syson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Syson |
| SIGNATURE | SYSON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Arts, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3173-861X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition
With this book, Kevin Blackburn adds to his The Sportsmen of Changi, and confirms himself as a significant member of a growing pack of historians discussing the complex connection between sport and
An ‘Absence of Option’
In the annals of Australian soccer, Indigenous players are rare. They are hard to find in soccer’s past and they do not represent a sizeable grouping in the contemporary game. Given the contribution of Indigenous athletes to other sports, this is to be lamented. Yet, the Indigenous presence in Australian Soccer should not be underestimated. Five Aboriginal Socceroos and eight Matildas is a small but significant number. And there were periods and …
Waiting for Association football
Australian soccer has a history much deeper and broader than is allowed in the conventional received story. Even some soccer historians are tempted to claim that the game was introduced here in the 1880s despite the fact that versions of the non-handling and kicking game (either as embodied practice or press advocacies) have been present since the 1850s. Reading newspaper reports against the mainstream narrative grain allows us to see a bustling …
Not Merely an Isolated Game’
n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia has participated in the world-wide growth of women’s football particularly since the 1970s, but long before that the game was played recreationally and competitively by women in Australia. Women have struggled to overcome active opposition to their taking part in the sport and neglect of their achievements which are considerable. This article provides an outline of the history of the game both nationally and in its internatio…
From Détente to Distrust
Immediately after WW1, soccer had acquired a small but secure place in Melbourne sports culture. Soccer's commitment to the war effort potentially gave its adherents entry to the foundations of a new national mythology. Increasing migrant numbers in the 1920s grew the number of soccer's participants and supporters. Perhaps counterintuitively, this growth was accompanied by a growing distance between the game and notions of Australianness. This pa…
Fronting Up
Soccer is rarely remembered as a vital part of Australia's military history and the Anzac legacy. Yet, soccer contributed greatly in the First World War. In terms of moral support, enlistment, participation and ‘sacrifice’, soccer was at the forefront of sporting-body commitment. Using recently digitised newspaper archives, this paper will outline soccer's place in the Australian armed forces during the First World War, especially in relation to …
The ‘Chimera’ of Origins
It is generally accepted that organised Association football (soccer) commenced in Australia in Sydney in 1880. This article challenges that starting point by revealing earlier games of codified soccer – not in order to establish an earlier point of origin but to challenge the very idea of origins. Recent work on football in Australia in the 1850s has begun to gather the unearthed traces of rule-bounded small-sided games brought to Australia from…
Death Sentence
Review(s) of: Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson, Vintage, Sydney, 2003. pp. 198. $22.95 paper. Review(s) of: Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches, Cant and Management Jargon by Don Watson, Knopf, Sydney, 2004. pp. 357. $32.95 cloth
Why Not Sausages?’
To someone who teaches the history, theory and practice of editing and publishing, Richard Nile's The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination presents itself as a particularly useful book, perhaps even a text book. Unfortunately, some of my reasons for setting this book would be negative. While it is a storehouse of valuable information and arguments, it is also an editorial basket case, a perfect object for practical and critical editing a…
A View from Somewhere New (Review Essay)
At the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards the keynote speech was given by visiting English actress Claire Bloom. She admitted to the audience that she hadn't read much Australian writing apart from Patrick White's Voss, of which she was reminded as she flew over the 'empty' heart of Australia. She then mentioned David Malouf and proceeded to enlighten us colonials about Hardy (no, not Frank), Thackeray and all those wonderful Victorian nove…
Michael Wilding’s Three Centres of Value
Wilding is much more than a creative writer. His contribution to Australian culture has been in a number of fields, three of which (creative writing, criticism and publishing) are most central. And this is in keeping with his world-view. According to Wilding ('After Libertarianism', see below 291), Australian literary culture used to have three vital centres of value: the academy; the literary writers, performers and reviewers; and the publishing…
An Absence of Partisanship
For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing the diverse and largely positive benefits of a generation's engagement with theory. Critics and writers, informed and inspired by a wide range of critical debates and perspectives, are producing intelligent and searching work which is realigning the frame of Australian literature and criticism. On the other hand, to misquote an…
The mouse Smcx gene exhibits developmental and tissue specific variation in degree of escape from X inactivation
The Smcx gene is the first known example of a non-pseudoautosomal X-linked gene in mouse that normally escapes X chromosome inactivation. We have analysed the kinetics of escape at different stages of development, and in adult tissues. Our results demonstrate that Smcx exhibits partial escape from X inactivation in embryos, in extraembryonic lineages where paternally imprinted X inactivation occurs and also in adult tissues. The degree of escape …
Henry Ernest Boote
Mary Gilmore told HEB yesterday that she thought she was a little on the side of the Germans. Henry said he was not, neither the Germans nor the English but on the side of the workers . . . Henry Lawson, in the office, asked why he had been called a jingler of the jingoes, instead of the poet of the proletariat. HEB said because there had been some slush of his in the papers last week. 'They doctor my stuff, replied Lawson, T'll see they stop it'…
John Grant
The colonisation of Aboriginal land is a moment of at least two clear examples of British imperial barbarity. In their study Dark Side of the Dream (1990), Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra make the claim that: 'Australia was founded on a double guilt: the dispossession of the Aboriginal people and the excessive punishment of large numbers of British and Irish people, mainly from the poorer classes, for crimes against the property of the ruling class'. …
Out from the Shadows
There are at least two reasons for the absence of a communist cultural discourse in contemporary Australian literary studies. First, there is the ideological orientation of its dominant practitioners: neither those involved in developments in post-structuralist theory nor those still under the influence of New Criticism can cope with a literary politics that focuses upon, and privileges, working class organisation. To generalise from Carole Ferri…
The ‘Chimera’ of Origins
It is generally accepted that organised Association football (soccer) commenced in Australia in Sydney in 1880. This article challenges that starting point by revealing earlier games of codified soccer – not in order to establish an earlier point of origin but to challenge the very idea of origins. Recent work on football in Australia in the 1850s has begun to gather the unearthed traces of rule-bounded small-sided games brought to Australia from…
Not Merely an Isolated Game’
n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia has participated in the world-wide growth of women’s football particularly since the 1970s, but long before that the game was played recreationally and competitively by women in Australia. Women have struggled to overcome active opposition to their taking part in the sport and neglect of their achievements which are considerable. This article provides an outline of the history of the game both nationally and in its internatio…
An ‘Absence of Option’
In the annals of Australian soccer, Indigenous players are rare. They are hard to find in soccer’s past and they do not represent a sizeable grouping in the contemporary game. Given the contribution of Indigenous athletes to other sports, this is to be lamented. Yet, the Indigenous presence in Australian Soccer should not be underestimated. Five Aboriginal Socceroos and eight Matildas is a small but significant number. And there were periods and …
Out from the Shadows
There are at least two reasons for the absence of a communist cultural discourse in contemporary Australian literary studies. First, there is the ideological orientation of its dominant practitioners: neither those involved in developments in post-structuralist theory nor those still under the influence of New Criticism can cope with a literary politics that focuses upon, and privileges, working class organisation. To generalise from Carole Ferri…
John Grant
The colonisation of Aboriginal land is a moment of at least two clear examples of British imperial barbarity. In their study Dark Side of the Dream (1990), Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra make the claim that: 'Australia was founded on a double guilt: the dispossession of the Aboriginal people and the excessive punishment of large numbers of British and Irish people, mainly from the poorer classes, for crimes against the property of the ruling class'. …
The mouse Smcx gene exhibits developmental and tissue specific variation in degree of escape from X inactivation
The Smcx gene is the first known example of a non-pseudoautosomal X-linked gene in mouse that normally escapes X chromosome inactivation. We have analysed the kinetics of escape at different stages of development, and in adult tissues. Our results demonstrate that Smcx exhibits partial escape from X inactivation in embryos, in extraembryonic lineages where paternally imprinted X inactivation occurs and also in adult tissues. The degree of escape …
Henry Ernest Boote
Mary Gilmore told HEB yesterday that she thought she was a little on the side of the Germans. Henry said he was not, neither the Germans nor the English but on the side of the workers . . . Henry Lawson, in the office, asked why he had been called a jingler of the jingoes, instead of the poet of the proletariat. HEB said because there had been some slush of his in the papers last week. 'They doctor my stuff, replied Lawson, T'll see they stop it'…
An Absence of Partisanship
For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing the diverse and largely positive benefits of a generation's engagement with theory. Critics and writers, informed and inspired by a wide range of critical debates and perspectives, are producing intelligent and searching work which is realigning the frame of Australian literature and criticism. On the other hand, to misquote an…
Michael Wilding’s Three Centres of Value
Wilding is much more than a creative writer. His contribution to Australian culture has been in a number of fields, three of which (creative writing, criticism and publishing) are most central. And this is in keeping with his world-view. According to Wilding ('After Libertarianism', see below 291), Australian literary culture used to have three vital centres of value: the academy; the literary writers, performers and reviewers; and the publishing…
A View from Somewhere New (Review Essay)
At the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards the keynote speech was given by visiting English actress Claire Bloom. She admitted to the audience that she hadn't read much Australian writing apart from Patrick White's Voss, of which she was reminded as she flew over the 'empty' heart of Australia. She then mentioned David Malouf and proceeded to enlighten us colonials about Hardy (no, not Frank), Thackeray and all those wonderful Victorian nove…
Why Not Sausages?’
To someone who teaches the history, theory and practice of editing and publishing, Richard Nile's The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination presents itself as a particularly useful book, perhaps even a text book. Unfortunately, some of my reasons for setting this book would be negative. While it is a storehouse of valuable information and arguments, it is also an editorial basket case, a perfect object for practical and critical editing a…
Death Sentence
Review(s) of: Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson, Vintage, Sydney, 2003. pp. 198. $22.95 paper. Review(s) of: Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches, Cant and Management Jargon by Don Watson, Knopf, Sydney, 2004. pp. 357. $32.95 cloth
The ‘Chimera’ of Origins
It is generally accepted that organised Association football (soccer) commenced in Australia in Sydney in 1880. This article challenges that starting point by revealing earlier games of codified soccer – not in order to establish an earlier point of origin but to challenge the very idea of origins. Recent work on football in Australia in the 1850s has begun to gather the unearthed traces of rule-bounded small-sided games brought to Australia from…
Fronting Up
Soccer is rarely remembered as a vital part of Australia's military history and the Anzac legacy. Yet, soccer contributed greatly in the First World War. In terms of moral support, enlistment, participation and ‘sacrifice’, soccer was at the forefront of sporting-body commitment. Using recently digitised newspaper archives, this paper will outline soccer's place in the Australian armed forces during the First World War, especially in relation to …
Not Merely an Isolated Game’
n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia has participated in the world-wide growth of women’s football particularly since the 1970s, but long before that the game was played recreationally and competitively by women in Australia. Women have struggled to overcome active opposition to their taking part in the sport and neglect of their achievements which are considerable. This article provides an outline of the history of the game both nationally and in its internatio…
From Détente to Distrust
Immediately after WW1, soccer had acquired a small but secure place in Melbourne sports culture. Soccer's commitment to the war effort potentially gave its adherents entry to the foundations of a new national mythology. Increasing migrant numbers in the 1920s grew the number of soccer's participants and supporters. Perhaps counterintuitively, this growth was accompanied by a growing distance between the game and notions of Australianness. This pa…
An ‘Absence of Option’
In the annals of Australian soccer, Indigenous players are rare. They are hard to find in soccer’s past and they do not represent a sizeable grouping in the contemporary game. Given the contribution of Indigenous athletes to other sports, this is to be lamented. Yet, the Indigenous presence in Australian Soccer should not be underestimated. Five Aboriginal Socceroos and eight Matildas is a small but significant number. And there were periods and …
Waiting for Association football
Australian soccer has a history much deeper and broader than is allowed in the conventional received story. Even some soccer historians are tempted to claim that the game was introduced here in the 1880s despite the fact that versions of the non-handling and kicking game (either as embodied practice or press advocacies) have been present since the 1850s. Reading newspaper reports against the mainstream narrative grain allows us to see a bustling …
War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition
With this book, Kevin Blackburn adds to his The Sportsmen of Changi, and confirms himself as a significant member of a growing pack of historians discussing the complex connection between sport and
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