Introduction to Part IV

The boundaries of bingo, as a game and a place within which that game is played, have been contested for decades: Labour MP Raymond Fletcher was raising the alarm about lax categorization in the early 1960s. What happens when the state tries to define a game like this? What happens when newly authorized variants of bingo, shaped by technologies that standardize its formats and by pro-innovation regulatory ideologies, encounter places within which the game has traditionally been played? What happens when problem gambling and social responsibility measures, designed with other gambling sectors in mind, are rolled out in bingo?...