This paper reviews the progress of geographical research on the gambling industry and
presents a framework to comprehend the role of space in gambling consumption and harm …

Global commercial gambling has grown to be an industry of remarkable size and power.
Over the past decade, global gambling losses have risen from approximately $250 billion …

In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of
consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she …

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 …

This article argues that gambling is a paradigmatic form of consumption that captures the
intensified logic at the heart of late modern capitalist societies. As well as a site of intensified …

Coercive commodities are those goods and services that promote 'akratic'consumption–that
consumption recognised by consumers themselves to be contrary to their own best interests …

In this essay I examine the relationship between commercial gambling, framed as one
example of global capitalist development, and the ways in which western societies respond …

The liberalisation of gambling in Australia has resulted in the dispersal of 200 000 electronic
gaming machines (EGMs) across the country, generating substantial revenues for State …

In Britain more men participate in gambling than women, although the gender gap is
narrowing; and online gambling is increasing among women and men. Gambling practices …

Gambling research is beset with vested interests, be they those of the state or the gambling
industry. The effect of these on the quality and focus of research has been largely ignored …