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Letting the Right Ones In: Whitelists, Jurisdictional Reputation, and the Racial Dynamics of Online Gambling Regulation.

Bedford, Kate (2015) Letting the Right Ones In: Whitelists, Jurisdictional Reputation, and the Racial Dynamics of Online Gambling Regulation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34 (1). pp. 30-47. ISSN 0263-7758. (doi:10.1177/0263775815595816) (KAR id:55674)

Abstract

Using a case study of a recent UK whitelist intended to regulate online gambling, I examine the affective politics of listing. I pay particular attention to the racial dynamics of black and white listing. By charting how the gambling whitelist worked and failed to work as a tool in the designation of jurisdictional reputation, I argue that the use and subsequent abandonment of the whitelist shows the centrality of racial dynamics to listing practices, particularly in relation to how the list was deployed in debates about the trustworthiness of the Kahnawá:ke territory and Antigua and Barbuda. In section 5 I examine what happened after the demise of the online gambling whitelist. Although non-listing techniques of governance look to be expanding, in the form of increased surveillance of individual gamblers, lists continue to play a key role in the UK government’s new model of gambling regulation. I suggest that this confirms the co-constitutive and mutually reinforcing nature of black and white lists as techniques of governance, and the value of exploring them and their racialized implications together.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0263775815595816
Uncontrolled keywords: gambling; race; trust; reputation; whitelist; affect.
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Sarah Saines
Date Deposited: 23 May 2016 14:36 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 07:05 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/55674 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bedford, Kate.

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