Cashless play in UK bingo: Two paradoxes in the use of player surveillance tools
Cashless play in UK bingo: Two paradoxes in the use of player surveillance tools. [1 Professor Kate Bedford, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK. Email: k.bedford@bham.ac.uk How to cite: Bedford K. (2020). Cashless play in UK bingo: Two paradoxes in the use of player surveillance tools. Critical Gambling Studies . https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs49 Introduction What can bingo can add to our academic, law, and policy debates about gambling and political economy? [2] I have been trying, for a while now, to make the case that bingo matters to academics - in its own right (it is a globally-significant, popular, though under-researched form of play that has historically been central to the development of gambling law and policy) - and because it offers a new lens on broader concerns about diverse economies, and the ways in which they are shaped by law. Like many other authors interested in this new journal, I spend much of my time arguing that the concerns of mainstrea