Critical Gambling Studies

The deadline to submit to our special issue on gamblification in the digital economy has now been EXTENDED to January 15, 2026.

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SQUARING A CIRCLE? Sustainability Reports as a Legitimacy-Seeking Strategy in State Gambling Monopolies | Critical Gambling Studies State gambling organisations are monopolies, that increasingly proclaim a commitment to sustainability principles, however their profits come at a substantial social cost. Gambling raises an array of…

How does a gambling provider legitimise itself while maintaining social responsibility? Caruana et al. use a distant reading content analysis to examine how state gambling monopolies evolve over time.

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Responsibilities in gambling harm prevention and reduction: Evidence from recently regulated licensed markets | Critical Gambling Studies Gambling harm prevention and reduction consists of a range of upstream and downstream solutions. Responsibilities for implementing and ensuring these tasks falls across a range of actors, including…

As competitive online gambling markets continue to gain traction, who is responsible for their regulation? @ceacg.bsky.social explore these questions in our latest issue:
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Reframing gambling harms as the product of a predatory industry: A Habermasian interpretation of a Lived Experience-led ‘counterpublic’ | Critical Gambling Studies The framing of public health challenges influences how societies and governments respond to them. This paper argues that public health professionals can counter the narrative influence of harmful…

How does Lived Experience change the conversation around gambling harms for regulators and health professionals? Mills et al. take a Habermasian approach in their article from our latest issue: criticalgamblingstudies.com/index.php/cg...

Why, by Whom and How? Representations of gambling problems and their solutions in Swedish general administrative court cases | Critical Gambling Studies To strengthen the right to support for people with gambling problems in Sweden, legislative changes were enacted in 2018. This study aims to critically examine how problems and solutions are…

Korfitsen et al. (@evasano.bsky.social) explore how the courts in Sweden approach individuals experiencing gambling harms and how they are framed in legal contexts.

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In the latest issue of @cgs-journal.bsky.social we analyze how gambling problems are handled in Swedish court cases. It is clear that despite extensive economic, health-related and social harm, individual gamblers are often left to deal with their problems on their own. doi.org/10.29173/cgs...

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Who is responsible for gambling harm prevention in competitive online markets? And what are the barriers and asymmetries that prevent effective harm prevention?

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The latest issue of Critical Gambling Studies is now available online.

These papers demonstrate the diverse discursive presentations of gambling harms in an era of shifting legislation and discourse surrounding the gambling industry.

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What are critical gambling studies? What does it mean to take a critical approach to gambling research?

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Addressing gambling harms among women: Leveraging lessons from the wider field of gender and health | Critical Gambling Studies Daria Ukhova is a research associate at the University of Glasgow (UoG). She joined UoG in 2021 to lead the policy workstream of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. Prior to that, Daria…

How do we ensure equal care for those experiencing gambling harms? Daria Ukhova and Fulvia Prever explore a gender-transformative approach of addressing gambling harms in CGS's latest issue.

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Critical Gambling Studies is launching a call for abstracts for an upcoming special issue examining gamblification as a cross-sector phenomenon. The deadline for submissions is November 18th, 2025.

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Financialization x Gamblification: Key Concepts for the Critique of Cryptocurrency Exchanges | Critical Gambling Studies The blurring of gambling and crypto-finance reflects a wider set of complex social transformations. To help parse these transformations, we discuss two key concepts: financialization and…

How do cryptocurrency and gambling connect? Martin French's group at Concordia University explore the cultural shift that has allowed for platformisation and speculative risk-taking in our daily lives in "Financialization x Gamblification."

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A Fatal Contamination: Roger Caillois on Gambling—a “Theme” of (Late) Modern Culture | Critical Gambling Studies This article returns to Roger Caillois’ analysis of gambling in his classic text Man, Play, and Games, to provide a framework for understanding the place of widespread legal gambling in late modern…

The latest from CGS - James Cosgrave returns to Roger Callois's and Johan Huizinga’s theories of play and culture to understand the place of the increasing prevalence of legal gambling in the modern day.

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