Editors' Introduction to the Issue

Authors

  • Fiona Nicoll University of Alberta
  • Emma Casey University of York
  • Kate Bedford University of Birmingham

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs225

Author Biographies

Fiona Nicoll, University of Alberta

Fiona Nicoll is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta and the author of Gambling in Everyday Life: Spaces, Moments and Products of Enjoyment (2019) and numerous publications on gambling and the politics of reconciliation, race and whiteness in Australia and Canada.

Emma Casey, University of York

Emma Casey is Reader in Sociology at University of York, United Kingdom. She is the author of Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience (2008) and The Return of the Housewife: Why Women are Still Cleaning Up (2025). Her research addresses everyday processes and practices of consumption and domestic life in late modern societies.

Kate Bedford, University of Birmingham

Kate Bedford is Professor of Law and Political Economy at the University of Birmingham. Her second book, Bingo Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Everyday Gambling (2019), was awarded the 2020 Hart-Socio-Legal Studies Association book prize and the 2020 International Political Economy book prize of the British International Studies Association. Her research explores how law and regulation distribute resources, and how they can impact inequalities.

References

Casey, E. (2008). Women, Pleasure, and the Gambling Experience. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546544

Keane, H. (2002). What’s Wrong with Addiction? New York University Press.

Nicoll, F., Bedford, K., Rintoul, A., Livingstone, C., & Casey, E. (2022). Editorial: What are Critical Gambling Studies? Critical Gambling Studies, 3(1), i-v. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs135

Simpson, T. (2023). Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution. University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv2z862bp

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Published

2025-03-23

How to Cite

Nicoll, F., Casey, E., & Bedford, K. (2025). Editors’ Introduction to the Issue. Critical Gambling Studies, 5(2), i-iv. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs225

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Open Issue

Section

Editorial

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