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On Card Games: A translation of Hegel\u27s Über das Kartenspiel
No full textA translation, by Mario Wenning, of Über das Kartenspiel [On Card Games] (1798) by Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Book review: Sulkunen, P., Babor, T., Cisneros Örnberg, J., Egerer, M., Hellman, M., Livingstone, C., Marionneau, V., Nikkinen, J., Orford, J., Room, R. & Rossow, I. (2019). Setting Limits: Gambling, Sciences and Public Policy. : Oxford University Press. 232 pp. £36.99UK. ISBN: 9780198817321 (paperback).
Full text linkThis article is a book review of Setting Limits: Gambling, Sciences and Public Policy (Sulkunen et al., 2019). This policy-oriented book, authored by an international group of experts, is intended for public health professionals and policymakers, and provides a comprehensive review of research on worldwide gambling trends, addiction and related public health issues.
 
Ambiguity and Abjection: Residents’ Reactions to a New Urban Casino
Full text linkWhile the social and economic costs and benefits of new gambling locations have been studied extensively, less is known about how new venues are experienced in view of city residents’ spatial and sociocultural identities. This study examines residents’ opinions and expectations on a new small-scale casino in the City of Tampere, Finland, as a case of new gambling opportunities in an urban setting. Nine focus group interviews were conducted with 43 Tampere residents three years prior to the scheduled casino opening. The study points out ways in which the residents struggled conceptually with the casino project. When speaking about it, participants drew on an imagery of popular culture, drawing a sharp line between casino gambling and the everyday convenience gambling so omnipresent in Finnish society. As residents of a historical industrial urban region, the participants positioned themselves as critical towards the municipality’s aims to brand the venue in a larger experience economy entity. By drawing on the concepts of city image and city identity, the study is able to demonstrate that the cultural geographical intrusion of new physical gambling spaces can appear as harmful to the city character. In the studied case, this is likely to hamper the City of Tampere’s chances to prevail on the very same experience market, of which the new casino is part
Netflix’s ‘Gambling, Explained’ and the Evolving Public Perception of Gambling
Full text linkA CGS Blog entry entitled: "Netflix’s ‘Gambling, Explained’ and the Evolving Public Perception of Gambling"
Book Review: Cassidy, Rebecca. (2020). Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling. Pluto Press. 240 pp. $34.95CAD. ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4039-5 (paperback)
Full text linkFrom Responsible Gambling to Responsible Innovation?
Full text linkA CGS Blog entry on responsible innovation and the gambling industry
Gambling, Deprivation and Class: Reflections from a UK Case Study
Full text linkA Critical Gambling Studies blog entry on Gambling, Deprivation and Class
Gaming in Kahnawà:ke
Full text linkThis is an article by Murray Marshall to be published as a commentary in the CIGS issue
Leveling Up: Reminiscing on the Evolution of Gambling within the Video Game Industry
Full text linkThis article is an expert commentary by digital artist Caitlyn Salmon, written for the Critical Indigenous Gambling Studies special issue of Critical Gambling Studies
“Gaming Addiction” and the Politics of Pathologies
Full text linkA Critical Gambling Studies blog entry: “Gaming Addiction” and the Politics of Pathologie