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Comparative Sociology of Dangerous Consumptions: An Interview with Robin Room
Full text linkInterviewer: Professor Fiona Nicoll, University of AlbertaParticipant: Professor Robin Room, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe UniversityDate: Dec. 29, 201
Addiction, Ground Rents, and Urban Casino Development
Full text linkCasino development has become a favoured urban development strategy in a number of post-industrialising western economies (Hannigan, 2007). These developments are often justified on the basis that casinos attract reputedly rich and super-rich consumers from other places in what amounts to a rather convenient geographical transfer of value. These wealthy consumers, so the mercantilist argument goes, enrich both the casino owners and the broader public through taxes and license fees. Moreover, these gambling dollars are imported, while the effects and responsibility for problem gambling, one of the key arguments against gambling developments, are conveniently exported. A second argument, particularly favoured by the gambling industry and other casino proponents, is the creation of local jobs, both in construction and subsequent casino operations. For example, the Canadian casino operator Gateway Casino and Entertainment has organised its new casino proposal for London, Canada, around the creation of 700 local jobs. More generally, neoclassical economists suggest that casinos tend to increase economic growth in the longer-term (e.g. Walker, 2007). A third argument is that casinos bring a certain symbolic value to a city, particularly if they take the form of large towers such as Barangaroo, Sydney, or its proposed competitor in Star City Casino located across the harbour in Pyrmont.  
Opening new conversations about gambling: an interview with Professor Fiona Nicoll on her new book Gambling in Everyday Life
Full text linkFiona Nicoll was interviewed by Jay Daniel Thompson about her book Gambling and Everyday Life. An earlier version of this publication was published by the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. It is reposted here with their permission
Responsible Gambling: A Scoping Review
Full text linkGambling markets have drastically expanded over the past 35 years. Pacing this expansion has been the articulation of a governance framework that largely places responsibility for regulating gambling-related harms upon individuals. This framework, often defined with reference to the concept of responsible gambling (RG), has faced significant criticism, emphasizing public health and consumer protection issues. To study both the articulation and critique of the concept of responsible gambling, we conducted a ‘scoping review’ of the literature (Arksey & O’Malley 2005). Literature was identified through searches on academic databases using a combination of search terms. Articles were independently reviewed by two researchers. Findings indicate 142 publications with a primary focus on responsible gambling, with a high volume of publications coming from the disciplinary backgrounds of the first authors representing the fields of psychology, business, and psychiatric medicine. Further, publication key themes address topics such as responsible gambling tools and interventions, corporate social responsibility and accountability, responsible gambling concepts and descriptions, and to a lesser extent, critiques of responsible gambling. The scoping review of the literature related to responsible gambling suggests the need to foster research conditions to invite more critical and interdisciplinary scholarship in an effort to improve public health and consumer protection
Where Isn’t the Action?
Full text linkErving Goffman’s seminal essay on gambling and risk-taking, ‘Where the Action Is’ was published over 50 years ago. This paper reconsiders the concept of action, and the related concept of ‘character’, for contemporary socio-cultural and economic conditions, where gambling opportunities abound. The paper also addresses the availability of action in other contemporary social domains and scenes. Action opportunities in late modernity have implications for the way character is conceived: thus, a late modern characterology is posited to address the changing social structural, cultural, and economic circumstances through which opportunities for action are distributed in variable ways
Book review: Kah-Wee, Lee. (2019). Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity. Singapore: NUS Press. 35.59 Can$. ISBN# 978-981-47-2290-2 (paperback).
Full text link\u27The Holy Game of Poker\u27: Gambling, Religion and Neoliberalism
No full textA Critical Gambling Studies blog entry on Poker, gambling, religion and neoliberalism
Responsible Gambling: Who is Responsible?
Full text linkA Critical Gambling Studies blog entry on responsible gambling. The interactive version of this blog is available at: https://criticalgamblingstudies.blogspot.com/2020/09/responsible-gambling-who-is-responsible.htm
The Walking Dead: Conflicts of Interest in Gambling and Video Gaming Reviewing
Full text linkWhat are conflicts of interest in gambling, how do they differ from the equivalent in video gaming, and what does this show us about the emerging ecosystem of gambling social media influencers? By Fiona Nicoll and Mark R Johnson.