Bingo: Winning and Losing in the Discourses of Problem Gambling

Authors

  • Jo-Anne Fiske University of Lethbridge

Keywords:

Indigenous peoples, racialization, problem gambling, discourse, power relations

Abstract

This study focuses on how popular discourses of problem gambling construct gendered and racialized identities in central British Columbia, a region producing the highest bingo revenues in the province. It explores how bingo discourses emerge as a symbolic resource within a socio-economic context imbued with a colonial legacy of racialized power relations. The goal is to illuminate, through the application of critical discourse methods, how these discourses legitimate local regimes of power through the pathologizing processes that result in stigmatizing children and women as "bingo orphans," "bingo bags" and "bingo addicts."

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Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Fiske, J.-A. (2015). Bingo: Winning and Losing in the Discourses of Problem Gambling. Anthropologica, 57(2), 525–537. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/445

Issue

Vol. 57 No. 2 (2015): Shamanism, Religious Renewal and Empowerment in Indigenous Societies / Consent, Collaboration, Treaty: Toward Anti-Colonial Praxis in Indigenous Settler Research Relations

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Copyright (c) 2021 Jo-Anne Fiske

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