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Title: Gambling drivers : regulating cultural technologies, subjects, spaces and practices of mobility
Related: Mobilities, Vol. 5, Issue 3, (2010), p.409-430
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2010.494843
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Date: 2010
Author/Creator: Redshaw, Sarah
Author/Creator: Nicoll, Fiona
Description: In this article, we analyse intersections between gambling and driving as everyday cultural practices of mobility. Building on Nikolas Rose’s argument that subjects in post‐industrial democratic societies are governed through appeals to ‘freedom’ rather than through overt forms of coercion or organised campaigns of state propaganda, we explore the different ways that producers, regulators and consumer advocates involved in gambling and driving appeal to our ‘powers of freedom’. We demonstrate that promotional and regulatory discourses of driving and gambling rely on a concept of freedom as self‐regulation. And we argue that the cultivation of social responsiveness is needed to address some of the problems created by individualising practices, spaces and technologies of mobility currently offered by automobiles and poker machines.
Description: 22 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Driving
Subject Keyword: gambling
Subject Keyword: neoliberalism
Subject Keyword: control
Subject Keyword: advertising
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Sociology

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