Review of "Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, progress and the crisis of nationalist modernity", by Lee Kah-Wee. Singapore: NUS Press, 2019.

• This book is essentially a collection of texts about gambling in Singapore and in Las Vegas. The texts are presented as being unified mainly by the theme of the architectural and spatial dimensions of gambling, as well as by the notion of the ‘taming of vice’. Other overarching concepts are ‘moral laundering’ and, in regard to Singapore, ‘progress without crisis’ and ‘nationalist modernity’. ... Despite its quirks and shortcomings, the book is a welcome addition to the rather few texts — compared with all that has been written on the psychology of excessive gambling — that explore how gambling is embedded in historical, ideological and economic contexts.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialantropologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Anthropology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

gambling

Singapore

history

casino

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