Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Gambling
Gambling in Europe, international horseracing, use of participant observation to study gambling environments including betting shops, racecourses, casinos
Remote gambling
Social and political histories of gambling regulation
Books:
Cassidy, Rebecca 2013: The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing, Cambridge University Press.
Cassidy, Rebecca (2007): Horse people: thoroughbred culture in Lexington and Newmarket, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Mullin, Molly and Rebecca Cassidy (2007): Where the wild things are now, Oxford: Berg Press.
Cassidy, Rebecca (2002): The Sport of Kings: kinship, class and thoroughbred breeding in Newmarket, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles in refereed journals:
Cassidy, Rebecca (2012): 'Horse versus Machine: battles in the betting shop'. Journal of the Royal Anthropology Institute 18(2).
Cassidy, Rebecca (2010): Gambling as exchange: horserace betting in London. International Gambling Studies 10(2): 139 – 149.
Cassidy, Rebecca (2009): 'Casino capitalism and the financial crisis', Anthropology Today, Volume 25, Number 4, pp. 10-13, August 2009.
Cassidy, Rebecca (2009): 'An anthropologist in the bookies' Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Gambling number, 43, Spring 2009.
Cassidy, Rebecca (2008) "Bon sang ne saurait mentir : reproduction d'hommes et de chevaux à Newmarket" in special issue on "Anthropology at Home in Britain" in Ethnologie Française, edited by Sharon MacDonald, Jeanette Edwards and Sophie Chevalier, 2007/2.
I'm currently working on a project about gambling in Europe funded by the European Research Council (GAMSOC). I head up a team of four researchers, and we are interested in how gambling in Europe might be studied in a way that preserves its cultural and historical variation. We have four case studies, intended to encourage us to study gambling across boundaries of various kinds: national, economic and conceptual. Claire Loussouarn is studying spread betting. Julie Scott works on domestic and commercial gambling in Cyprus. Andrea Pisac is studying casino gamblers and their families in Slovenia. I focus on the remote gambling industry. More information about GAMSOC can be found here: http://www.gold.ac.uk/gamblingineurope/
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999 – 2001
Learning Enhancement Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2008 – 2009
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