Table of Contents

PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: THIS IS (NOT) A BOOK ABOUT PROBLEM GAMBLING CHAPTER TWO: CULTURAL SPACES OF GAMBLING CHAPTER THREE: CULTURAL MOMENTS OF GAMBLING CHAPTER FOUR: CULTURAL PRODUCTS OF GAMBLING CHAPTER FIVE: GOVERNING GAMBLING IN EVERYDAY LIFE

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"From the poker machines that have colonised our spaces of recreation and solitude to the casinos that are monopolising the prime real estate and waterfronts of our cities and multiplying in remote desert locations, and from the spruikers on television pushing sports betting to the scratch lottery tickets bought at the check-out in the supermarket - gambling is now a thoroughly normalised feature of daily life. The lure to take a punt, have a flutter and make a bet is never far away, whether it's the sweepstakes in the workplace or a game of online poker. This book explores this new landscape, focusing on the all pervasive moments, spaces and products of gambling today. It provides an important cultural study of gambling as a form of play, a technology of power, and as a cultural practice that brings the stakes of winning and losing into more and more aspects of everyday life."-Fiona Allon, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. Australia