No matter of luck : a deconstruction of the Singapore state’s ‘problem gambling’ discourse and analysis of its effects on those targeted.

• Main Author: Gao, Zeke Sijing.
• Other Authors: Teo You Yenn
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social deviance
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44086
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the Singapore state’s “problem gambling” discourse and its effects on those categorized as “problem gamblers”. I argue that “problem gambling” fore mostly provides for the state a legitimate middle-ground to account for the simultaneity of its paradoxical positions on gambling –...