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Biographical notes
Fiona Nicoll is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta and the author of Gambling in Everyday Life: Spaces, Moments and Products of Enjoyment (2019) and numerous publications on gambling and the politics of reconciliation, race and whiteness in Australia and Canada.
Emma Casey is Reader in Sociology at University of York, United Kingdom. She is the author of Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience (2008) and The Return of the Housewife: Why Women are Still Cleaning Up (2025). Her research addresses everyday processes and practices of consumption and domestic life in late modern societies.
Kate Bedford is Professor of Law and Political Economy at the University of Birmingham. Her second book, Bingo Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Everyday Gambling (2019), was awarded the 2020 Hart-Socio-Legal Studies Association book prize and the 2020 International Political Economy book prize of the British International Studies Association. Her research explores how law and regulation distribute resources, and how they can impact inequalities.
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