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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 mains...

By Martin Young and Francis Markham How to cite: Young M., & Markham F. (2020). Addiction, Ground Rents, and Urban Casino Development.  Critical Gambling Studies , 6. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs27 Casino development has become a favoured urban development strategy in a number of post-industrialising western economies (Hannigan, 2007). These developments are often justified on the basis that casinos attract reputedly rich and super-rich consumers from other places in what amounts to a rather convenient geographical transfer of value. These wealthy consumers, so the mercantilist argument goes, enrich both the casino owners and the broader public through taxes and license fees. Moreover, these gambling dollars are imported, while the effects and responsibility for problem gambling, one of the key arguments against gambling developments, are conveniently exported. A second argument, particularly favoured by the gambling industry and other casino proponents, is the creation...