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Qualitative Research in Gambling: Exploring the production and consumption of risk
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
London: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social
and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and
technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the
gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible,
responsive and 'agile'. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look
beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of 'problem
gambling' in order to follow those changes across territorial, political, technical,
regulatory and conceptual boundaries.
The book draws on cutting-edge qualitative work in disciplines including geography,
organisational studies, sociology, East Asian studies and anthropology to explore the
production and consumption of risk, risky places, risk technologies, the gambling
industry and connections between gambling and other kinds of speculation such as
financial derivatives. In doing so it addresses some of the most important issues in
contemporary social science, including: the challenges of studying deterritorialised
social phenomena; globalising technologies and local markets; regulation as it operates
across local, regional and international scales; and the rise of games, virtual
worlds and social media.