Relationships of Chance: Friendships in a Gambling Setting of Urban India

Puri, Stine Simonsen

doi:10.1080/00856401.2016.1123832

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“…It can involve technologically mediated "zoning out," to annihilate the self (Schüll 2012;Nicoll 2019). It can also, perhaps paradoxically, involve sociality and group bonding (Nicoll 2019;Puri 2016); raising money for charity (Christensen et al 2009); showing love to family (Casey 2008); sharing resources within the community (Binde 2005); cementing national and imperial ties (Cassidy 2008); or securing survival in informal economies (Harris 2016;Chazkel 2011). For example, the working men's clubs that emerged in England just after the Swing Riots were not just about insurance for respectable funerals or the provision of uplifting reading material (Bedford 2019).…”

Section: Gambling In the Market And Moral Economymentioning

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Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

Bedford¹

2022

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This article adapts the concept of the moral economy and applies that adapted concept to UK gambling regulation during the early years (2020-21) of the COVID-19 pandemic. I extend the moral economy concept beyond the eighteenth-century English food riot, and beyond food staples. I also examine the role of law and regulation in the moral economy and highlight charity's importance to moral economy debates. I then consider gambling through a moral economy lens by exploring the pandemic-era regulation of horserace betting, lotteries, and bingo. I show that gambling in some forms (horserace betting and lotteries) was important to pandemic recovery projects and to spectacles of national coming together. Via lotteries, for example, the state sought to adjust customary expectations about the role of volunteers in providing essential services. Although regulators generally ignored bingo, there was a pandemic resurgence in self-organized games that is especially significant for work on the moral economy. I conclude by identifying some broader implications of this study, including on how essentiality is legally constructed, and on charity and volunteering within the moral economy.

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Section: Gambling In the Market And Moral Economymentioning

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Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

Bedford¹

2022

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“…Recent studies of gambling have largely bolstered Goffman and Geertz’s claims; Stine Puri’s body of work on wagering in India is largely indicative of this (Puri, 2016, 2020, 2021). Puri (2016) notes that horse race gambling seems to afford context-specific forms of affection and relationships. Puri (2020) also points out that the specific pattern of horse race gambling speaks to how the speculators view society.…”

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How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up

Souleles

2021

Critique of Anthropology

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It is now routine for anthropologists to study those who exercise power and control wealth and status in any number of societies. Implicit in anthropology’s long-standing commitment to apprehending societies in their totality, and explicit in the call to study up, paying attention to power is just one of the routine things that anthropologists do in the course of their fieldwork. That said, many theoretical and ethical norms in the discipline are calibrated to allow researchers to both know about and protect those with relatively little power who made up much of anthropology’s original topical area of interests. By contrast, studying people who exercise power entails special ethical and theoretical consideration. This article enumerates some of those considerations, and suggests that anthropologists need to have coherent theories of social action in addition to theories of social meaning. The article also suggests that some canonical disciplinary ethical norms are inappropriate for the study of the powerful for empirical and practical reasons.

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Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling: The moral economy and foundations of play in Udaipur, Rajasthan

Snodgrass,

Lacy,

Polzer

et al. 2024

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We use ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys to illuminate video game‐related gambling in India, where players use as currency decorative in‐game weapon covers referred to as skins. We focus on gaming and gambling related to virtual items acquired in the popular shooter game Counter‐Strike: Global Offensive, and our study unfolds among young adults who play in face‐to‐face centers called gaming lounges or zones. We consider how networks of video game players, themselves influenced by familial and societal demands, form moral economies that regulate why video game items are exchanged and how they are evaluated. Further, we use moral foundations theory to clarify ethical plurality in these settings, with tensions between moral demands shaping how and whether skins exchanges are judged to be socially productive or harmful. We show how gaming lounge owners’ personal values, some religiously informed, render emerging adults who play in these settings less at risk of excessive gambling, which is not tolerated either within close‐knit gaming groups or broader society. Overall, our analysis points to the utility of bringing into dialogue moral economy and moral foundations perspectives to uncover the cultural meanings of linked gaming and gambling in this context.

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Relationships of Chance: Friendships in a Gambling Setting of Urban India

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up

Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling: The moral economy and foundations of play in Udaipur, Rajasthan

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