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Bingo capitalism : the law and political economy of everyday gambling
Casinos are often used by political economists, and popular commentators, to think critically about capitalism. Bingo - an equal chance numbers game played in many parts of the world - is overlooked in these conversations about gambling and political economy. Bingo Capitalism challenges that omission by asking what bingo in England and Wales can teach us about capitalism and the regulation of everyday gambling economies. The book draws on official records of parliamentary debate, case law, regulations and in-depth interviews with both bingo players and workers to offer the first socio-legal account of this globally significant and immensely popular pastime. It explores the legal and political history of bingo and how gender shapes, and is shaped by, diverse state rules on gambling. It also sheds light on the regulation of workers, players, products, places, and technologies. In so doing it adds a vital new dimension to accounts of UK gambling law and regulation.through Bingo Capitalism, Bedford makes a key theoretical contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gambling and political economy, showing the role of the state in supporting and then eclipsing environments where gambling played a key role as mutual aid. In centering the regulatory entanglement between vernacular play forms, self-organized membership activity, and corporate leisure experiences, she offers a fresh vision of gambling law from the everyday perspective of bingo.
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The Contribution of the Petrological Iterative Approach in Reconciling the UHP Natural Data Set With Geodynamic Models in the Continental Western Alps
Pressure and temperature estimates of metamorphic terranes are increasingly retrieved from forward thermodynamic modeling coupled with isopleth thermobarometry. Although geodynamic reconstructions are mathematically derived, thermobarometric estimates are limited by a lack of quantitative constraints, especially on their uncertainties. This work explores the application of the statistically based approach of Bingo‐Antidote on a chloritoid‐garnet‐bearing micaschist from a high‐pressure unit in the continental Western Alps, Italy. Calculations highlighted a good match between the observation and the model at conditions that overlay the quartz‐coesite polymorphic reaction. This result called for targeted investigations, which ultimately led to the recognition of coesite inclusions in the garnet domain modeled to be equilibrated at such conditions, pinpointing the pressure peak at ultra‐high‐pressure conditions. Our results show a so‐far unexplored application of Bingo‐Antidote as a straightforward and fast tool for guiding targeted investigations, such as the search for potential occurrences of otherwise elusive phases like coesite, which might be time‐consuming if randomly applied. In addition, this contribution infers a possible architecture of the Dora‐Maira Massif paleomargin, discussing it in the framework of existing geodynamic simulations.
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