Rob Hess
Biographic Data
| ID | 6556583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Hess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Hess |
| SIGNATURE | HESS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6242-0404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
Australian Rules football, more colloquially known as ‘Aussie Rules’, is a unique sport that was first codified in Melbourne in 1859. The game quickly spread to all colonies (later states and territories) of Australia. Despite wide press coverage the sport attracted only sporadic academic attention until 2000 when the first doctoral dissertations on the history of the code were completed. New research on Australian Rules football examines the ori…
Here to Just Play’
In 1970 the Victorian women’s netball team was caught up in the growing political storm of the anti-apartheid movement when, as part of a tour of Australia, the all-white South African netball team were scheduled to play against Victoria at the Royal Park stadium on Wednesday, June 3, 1970. This controversial match, which became the site of student protests and police arrests, received extensive media coverage in Melbourne and beyond. Constructin…
Local, National and Global Histories of Field Hockey
Origin Stories
Compared to other sports around the globe, netball has received relatively little attention from academic historians. The reasons for this omission are obvious, in that generally sport played by women has nearly always suffered in comparison to men’s sports in terms of exposure, acceptance, and financial support. Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that the academy, throughout much of the twentieth century, has tended not to focus on studies …
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball
Despite its notable global presence as one of the most popular sports for women, netball has almost no profile within sports history and only a very limited body of scholarly work exploring its historical and socio-cultural presence. The game, developed in the 1890s as an off-shoot of basketball consistent with prevailing gender ideologies of the era, took hold in British Physical Training Colleges before being taken up as a team sport suitable f…
The Voice of the Athlete in History
In this overview, succinct information is provided on how the recognition of the voices of athletes has developed over decades. Processes of continuity and transformation are outlined, which serve to highlight and create interest in the topics of the full papers connected with this collection. Following this preparation for ‘stepping into the topic’, a rationale is also presented regarding the order and grouping of the various studies. In essence…
Match-Fixing and Sport
Sport, Cultures, Communities, and Heritage in an Australian Historical Context
Introduction
The Historical Background to Pakistan’s Participation at the Olympic Games and Its Performances in Field Hockey, 1948–1956
It is easy to gain the impression from the copious literature that each Olympic Games has been carefully assessed by academics. Certainly, a wealth of detail and statistics have been generated about particular Olympic sports, the careers of prominent athletes and the performance of their respective nations on the unofficial medal table. However, some sports and some nations remain under-represented in the literature of the Games. This is especial…
Sport and Christianity
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to sport and Christianity from historical perspectives. After a brief general historiographical introduction, the material connected to the burgeoning field of sport and religion is summarized. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on diverse geographic locations and different time periods. The investigations are not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, bu…
Grassroots Football Development in Japan
The history and issues surrounding elite football in Japan have been addressed by a number of scholars. However, grassroots football, although fundamental to the development of the code, has rarely been explored in the academic literature. In Japan, the importance of grassroots football has received heightened attention by the Japanese Football Association (JFA) since 2003, with 20% growth in the number of registered players under 12 years old fr…
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 ‘…
Women, Football and History
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to women and football from international perspectives. After a general discursive introduction, the material discussed has its emphasis on studies connected to women and football that occur outside the locus of established scholarship. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on the geographic locations of New Zealand, Australia and the USA, and four major football code…
Introduction
Introduction: Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(18), pp. 2295–2296
Missing in Action? New Perspectives on the Origins and Diffusion of Women's Football in Australia during the Great War
Previous work on female participation in Australian Rules football has highlighted the seemingly discontinuous character of the women's game as it spread from Western Australia to Victoria during the period of the Great War. In this paper, an overview of the current literature on the topic is provided, and there is a focus on hitherto ‘missing links’ in the existing sequence of events – the knowledge of which has the potential to create a more in…
Forging Imperial and Australasian Identities
The localised successes but geographic boundedness of Australian Rules football raise interesting questions about the relationship of sports to the regional character of the South-West Pacific. Although it is called ‘Australian’, the game has historically been restricted to roughly half of the population of the colonies and states, failing to capitalise on its initial flowering in Queensland and New South Wales. In the nineteenth century, it was …
Playing With ‘Patriotic Fire’
The revelation that women first played Australian Rules football during the period of the Great War is an important element in overall understandings of how both masculine and feminine ideals were challenged and redefined by sporting practices in a time of general social flux. This paper reveals that the genesis of the women's code was in Western Australia, where contests occurred as early as 1915. Three years later, with the war nearing its conc…
Against the Tide
Research on Australasian aquatic cultures has been driven by the widespread popularity of activities such as surfing, boating and swimming. However, the focus of academic scrutiny during the last two decades has largely been directed towards investigations of surfing and surf lifesaving in particular, and beach culture more generally. In this paper, the current research paradigm within which swimming research in Australia and New Zealand operates…
Ladies are specially invited’
A healing hegemony
Women and Australian rules football in colonial melbourne 1
Ladies are specially invited’
Women, Football and History
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to women and football from international perspectives. After a general discursive introduction, the material discussed has its emphasis on studies connected to women and football that occur outside the locus of established scholarship. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on the geographic locations of New Zealand, Australia and the USA, and four major football code…
Women and Australian rules football in colonial melbourne 1
Grassroots Football Development in Japan
The history and issues surrounding elite football in Japan have been addressed by a number of scholars. However, grassroots football, although fundamental to the development of the code, has rarely been explored in the academic literature. In Japan, the importance of grassroots football has received heightened attention by the Japanese Football Association (JFA) since 2003, with 20% growth in the number of registered players under 12 years old fr…
Playing With ‘Patriotic Fire’
The revelation that women first played Australian Rules football during the period of the Great War is an important element in overall understandings of how both masculine and feminine ideals were challenged and redefined by sporting practices in a time of general social flux. This paper reveals that the genesis of the women's code was in Western Australia, where contests occurred as early as 1915. Three years later, with the war nearing its conc…
Against the Tide
Research on Australasian aquatic cultures has been driven by the widespread popularity of activities such as surfing, boating and swimming. However, the focus of academic scrutiny during the last two decades has largely been directed towards investigations of surfing and surf lifesaving in particular, and beach culture more generally. In this paper, the current research paradigm within which swimming research in Australia and New Zealand operates…
Origin Stories
Compared to other sports around the globe, netball has received relatively little attention from academic historians. The reasons for this omission are obvious, in that generally sport played by women has nearly always suffered in comparison to men’s sports in terms of exposure, acceptance, and financial support. Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that the academy, throughout much of the twentieth century, has tended not to focus on studies …
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball
Despite its notable global presence as one of the most popular sports for women, netball has almost no profile within sports history and only a very limited body of scholarly work exploring its historical and socio-cultural presence. The game, developed in the 1890s as an off-shoot of basketball consistent with prevailing gender ideologies of the era, took hold in British Physical Training Colleges before being taken up as a team sport suitable f…
The Historical Background to Pakistan’s Participation at the Olympic Games and Its Performances in Field Hockey, 1948–1956
It is easy to gain the impression from the copious literature that each Olympic Games has been carefully assessed by academics. Certainly, a wealth of detail and statistics have been generated about particular Olympic sports, the careers of prominent athletes and the performance of their respective nations on the unofficial medal table. However, some sports and some nations remain under-represented in the literature of the Games. This is especial…
A healing hegemony
Women and Australian rules football in colonial melbourne 1
A healing hegemony
Ladies are specially invited’
Against the Tide
Research on Australasian aquatic cultures has been driven by the widespread popularity of activities such as surfing, boating and swimming. However, the focus of academic scrutiny during the last two decades has largely been directed towards investigations of surfing and surf lifesaving in particular, and beach culture more generally. In this paper, the current research paradigm within which swimming research in Australia and New Zealand operates…
Playing With ‘Patriotic Fire’
The revelation that women first played Australian Rules football during the period of the Great War is an important element in overall understandings of how both masculine and feminine ideals were challenged and redefined by sporting practices in a time of general social flux. This paper reveals that the genesis of the women's code was in Western Australia, where contests occurred as early as 1915. Three years later, with the war nearing its conc…
Forging Imperial and Australasian Identities
The localised successes but geographic boundedness of Australian Rules football raise interesting questions about the relationship of sports to the regional character of the South-West Pacific. Although it is called ‘Australian’, the game has historically been restricted to roughly half of the population of the colonies and states, failing to capitalise on its initial flowering in Queensland and New South Wales. In the nineteenth century, it was …
Introduction
Introduction: Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(18), pp. 2295–2296
Missing in Action? New Perspectives on the Origins and Diffusion of Women's Football in Australia during the Great War
Previous work on female participation in Australian Rules football has highlighted the seemingly discontinuous character of the women's game as it spread from Western Australia to Victoria during the period of the Great War. In this paper, an overview of the current literature on the topic is provided, and there is a focus on hitherto ‘missing links’ in the existing sequence of events – the knowledge of which has the potential to create a more in…
Women, Football and History
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to women and football from international perspectives. After a general discursive introduction, the material discussed has its emphasis on studies connected to women and football that occur outside the locus of established scholarship. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on the geographic locations of New Zealand, Australia and the USA, and four major football code…
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 ‘…
Grassroots Football Development in Japan
The history and issues surrounding elite football in Japan have been addressed by a number of scholars. However, grassroots football, although fundamental to the development of the code, has rarely been explored in the academic literature. In Japan, the importance of grassroots football has received heightened attention by the Japanese Football Association (JFA) since 2003, with 20% growth in the number of registered players under 12 years old fr…
Introduction
The Historical Background to Pakistan’s Participation at the Olympic Games and Its Performances in Field Hockey, 1948–1956
It is easy to gain the impression from the copious literature that each Olympic Games has been carefully assessed by academics. Certainly, a wealth of detail and statistics have been generated about particular Olympic sports, the careers of prominent athletes and the performance of their respective nations on the unofficial medal table. However, some sports and some nations remain under-represented in the literature of the Games. This is especial…
Sport and Christianity
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to sport and Christianity from historical perspectives. After a brief general historiographical introduction, the material connected to the burgeoning field of sport and religion is summarized. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on diverse geographic locations and different time periods. The investigations are not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, bu…
Sport, Cultures, Communities, and Heritage in an Australian Historical Context
Match-Fixing and Sport
The Voice of the Athlete in History
In this overview, succinct information is provided on how the recognition of the voices of athletes has developed over decades. Processes of continuity and transformation are outlined, which serve to highlight and create interest in the topics of the full papers connected with this collection. Following this preparation for ‘stepping into the topic’, a rationale is also presented regarding the order and grouping of the various studies. In essence…
Origin Stories
Compared to other sports around the globe, netball has received relatively little attention from academic historians. The reasons for this omission are obvious, in that generally sport played by women has nearly always suffered in comparison to men’s sports in terms of exposure, acceptance, and financial support. Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that the academy, throughout much of the twentieth century, has tended not to focus on studies …
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball
Despite its notable global presence as one of the most popular sports for women, netball has almost no profile within sports history and only a very limited body of scholarly work exploring its historical and socio-cultural presence. The game, developed in the 1890s as an off-shoot of basketball consistent with prevailing gender ideologies of the era, took hold in British Physical Training Colleges before being taken up as a team sport suitable f…
Local, National and Global Histories of Field Hockey
Introduction
Australian Rules football, more colloquially known as ‘Aussie Rules’, is a unique sport that was first codified in Melbourne in 1859. The game quickly spread to all colonies (later states and territories) of Australia. Despite wide press coverage the sport attracted only sporadic academic attention until 2000 when the first doctoral dissertations on the history of the code were completed. New research on Australian Rules football examines the ori…
Here to Just Play’
In 1970 the Victorian women’s netball team was caught up in the growing political storm of the anti-apartheid movement when, as part of a tour of Australia, the all-white South African netball team were scheduled to play against Victoria at the Royal Park stadium on Wednesday, June 3, 1970. This controversial match, which became the site of student protests and police arrests, received extensive media coverage in Melbourne and beyond. Constructin…
Sports, Gender, and Society (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (17 works) · History (13 works) · History (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Football (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)