http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/david-rowe/ David Rowe is Professor of Cultural Research in the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. He has published extensively in the areas of media and popular culture, especially sport, music and journalism. Prof Rowe has published many essays and commentaries on cultural and social matters in print, broadcast and online media, and has been a research consultant for several government departments, local councils, professional organisations and community groups. His work has been translated into Chinese, French, Arabic, Italian and Turkish, and his books include Globalization and Sport: Playing the World (2001, co-authored), Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (2004, second edition) and Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Futures (2011). en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Shh-dont-tell-my-highbrow-chums-I-liked-the-Twenty20/ I went to the KFC T20 Big Bash League game at the Sydney Cricket Ground in character. My self-assigned role was to play the sporting curmudgeon, a cricket connoisseur abhorring the form of the game designed for people who don’t like cricket, and left-wing romantic appalled by the abominations of corporate consumption capitalism at its most bone-headedly tasteless. Attending my first live Twenty20 event was an exercise in leisure and education, meaning that I was looking for fun but brought my notepad along. Following the pedestrian flow through Surry Hills to Moore Park and breathing humid evening air spiced with vehicle and restaurant emissions, the collective feeling was unmistakeably that of summer carnival. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Rowe) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Shh-dont-tell-my-highbrow-chums-I-liked-the-Twenty20/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Shh-dont-tell-my-highbrow-chums-I-liked-the-Twenty20/#item7591 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:50:40 +0000 David Rowe | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-unaustralian-to-barrack-for-the-other-team/ Norman Tebbit - a key confidante of Margaret Thatcher entirely ignored in the recent film The Iron Lady - is commonly remembered for two prescriptive statements. The first was that, instead of complaining or rioting, the unemployed should get on their bikes and look for work. The second article of Tebbitism is that immigrants should take a ‘cricket test’ of national loyalty and identity.  If you’re living in one country but decline to support it against your nation of origin in an international sporting contest, Tebbit implied, you have failed that test. Australia had its own less strict but more formal version of a cricket test in the sample question about Don Bradman in the original Australian citizenship test under the Howard government. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Rowe) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-unaustralian-to-barrack-for-the-other-team/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-unaustralian-to-barrack-for-the-other-team/#item7518 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:00:23 +0000 David Rowe | Author bios | The Punch