Opening new conversations about gambling: an interview with Professor Fiona Nicoll on her new book Gambling in Everyday Life
Fiona Nicoll interviewed by Jay Daniel Thompson How to Cite: Thompson, J. D., & Nicoll, F. (2020). Opening new conversations about gambling: an interview with Professor Fiona Nicoll on her new book Gambling in Everyday Life . Critical Gambling Studies . https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs80 An earlier version of this publication was published by the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia . It is reposted here with their permission. Jay Daniel Thompson: In your book, Gambling in Everyday Life: Spaces, Moments and Products of Enjoyment , you mention that a great deal of research into gambling has been undertaken by researchers in the field of Psychology. How can a Cultural Studies framework enrich a reader’s understanding of gambling in everyday life? Fiona Nicoll: Yes. Much of that psychology-influenced work has been produced since the 1990s, and can be understood as a consequence of the rapid expansion of commercial gambling and of electronic gaming machines (what we call ‘pok