In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. Additionally, it provides new perspectives on gambling in terms of skill, affect, harm and control and offers a distinct viewpoint to analyse gambling and other phenomena.įeminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. We find that bingo research makes a number of important contributions: it allows better understanding of groups of overlooked gamblers, corrects biases in gambling literature, highlights the importance of social and structural factors in understanding gambling and employs methodological approaches that are congruent with the people and practices being studied.
The literature reviewed was primarily identified through searches of academic databases using search terms such as betting, bingo, electronic and gambling. This narrative review seeks to fill this gap by exploring the development of literature on bingo since the 1980s, first providing a chronological overview of writing on bingo and then a brief account of major themes in the literature. Despite this, there is no recent overview of the literature on bingo. While traditionally seen as low harm, it is being reshaped by technological and regulatory change.
It provides comfort and pleasure to many of its players while also causing harm to some. Bingo is a distinct, enduring but understudied form of gambling.
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