Gambling in Everyday Life.

ISBN:

9781317679042

Title:

Author:

Nicoll, Fiona.

Personal Author:

Nicoll, Fiona.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Series:

Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Gambling in Everyday Life -- Gambling in Everyday Life: Signposts in the Literature -- Gambling Is Ordinary -- Governmentality, Gambling, and Everyday Life -- Finopower: Transforming Intersections Between Gambling, Finance, Work, and Play -- Methodologies -- Structure -- Chapter Outline -- Conclusion -- 1 This Is (Not) a Book on Problem Gambling: Enjoyment Beyond the Figure of the Problem Gambler -- Introduction -- What's the Problem With Problem Gambling Research? -- Fixing Pathologies: Addiction and the Cultural Politics of Taste -- Gambling Beyond the Zone: Enjoyment in Everyday Life -- Where Is the Joy? -- Conclusion -- 2 Cultural Spaces of Gambling -- Introduction -- Transforming Gambling Spaces -- Statey Spaces of Gambling -- Accommodating Casino Resorts -- Crown Sovereignty -- The "Pokie Lounge" as an Everyday Cultural Space of Gambling -- Strategies and Tactics in the Pokie Lounge -- Conclusion -- 3 Cultural Moments of Gambling -- Introduction -- Transforming Gambling Moments -- Gender, Time, and Gambling in Everyday Life -- Gambling at Work -- On Winning the Lottery -- National Gambling Moments: Melbourne Cup Day Celebrations -- Conclusion -- 4 Cultural Products of Gambling -- Introduction -- Gambling Systems -- Transforming Gambling Products: The Rise of the Electronic Gambling Machine -- Online Wagering Platforms -- Gaming or Gambling? Capitalizing on Play -- Gambling on Financial Products -- Conclusion -- 5 Governing Gambling in Everyday Life -- Introduction -- Transforming Architectures of Regulation -- Are EGMs Gambling Products? -- Consumer Advocacy: Reading Gamblers' Stories as Testimony -- Sacrifice and Scapegoating: The Finopolitics of Problem Gambling.

Problem Gambling Beyond the Individual: Defending Communities From EGMs -- Extractive Industries and the Constitutional Grounds of Democracy -- Regulating Gambling Research -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Transforming Gambling Spaces -- Transforming Gambling Moments -- Transforming Gambling Products and Services -- Transforming Gambling Research Ethics -- Amplifying the Joys of Gambling in Everyday Life -- Appendix -- Index.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Gambling-Social aspects..

Gambling industry-Social aspects.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2019

Publication Information:

Georgetown :

Routledge,

2019.

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Summary

The book adopts a critical cultural studies lens to explore the entanglement of government and gambling in everyday life. Its qualitative approach to gambling creates a new theoretical framework for understanding the most urgent questions raised by research and policy on gambling.

In the past two decades, gambling industries have experienced exponential growth with annual global expenditure worth approximately 300 billion dollars. Yet most academic research on gambling is concentrated on problem gambling and conducted within the psychological sciences. Nicoll considers gambling at a moment when its integration within everyday cultural spaces, moments, and products is unprecedented. This is the first interdisciplinary cultural study of gambling in everyday life and develops critical and empirical methods that capture the ubiquitous presence of gambling in work, investment and play. This book also contributes to the growing cultural studies literature on video and mobile gaming. In addition to original case studies of gambling moments and spaces, in-depth interviews and participant observations provide readers with an insider's view of gambling.

Advanced students of sociology, cultural theory, and political science, academic researchers in the field of gambling studies will find this an original and useful text for understanding the cultural and political work of gambling industries in liberal societies.

Author Notes

Dr Fiona Nicoll is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta where she holds a research chair in gambling policy in the Department of Political Science. The author of Diggers to Drag Queens: Configurations of Twentieth Century National Identity (Pluto Press, 2001) and founding member of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, she is co-editor of Transnational Whiteness Matters (Lexington Press, 2008) and Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University (University of Queensland Press, 2015).