R Cassidy
Biographic Data
| ID | 19658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Cassidy |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassidy |
| SIGNATURE | CASSIDY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5420-0310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Seeing the similarities: Applying a coherent lens to harmful products as drivers of suicide
Fatal self-harm, more commonly referred to as suicide, is a serious public health problem affecting individuals and communities worldwide. Some products and services, such as paracetamol, bridges, and railways, are recognised as requiring regulatory or design interventions to prevent suicide. However, others with well-established associations with suicide, including alcohol, gambling products, pesticides, opioids and firearms, are often framed as…
Medicine burden experiences of people living with HIV and association with stigma
The medicine burden of people living with HIV (PLWH) is unknown.Between 2018 and 2020, participants completed a survey comprising outcome measures for medicine burden (LMQ-3) and stigma experiences (SSCI-8).Participants were HIV+ adults (18 years), using antiretrovirals (ARV) with or without non-ARV medicines, recruited via two outpatient clinics in southeast England and online via HIV charities across the UK.Spearman's correlations between medic…
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries
OBJECTIVES: Most non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food and drink products, collectively termed unhealthy commodities. This paper explores the links between unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs), analyses the extent of alignment across their corporate political strategies, and proposes a cohesive systems approach to research a…
Who uses custom sports betting products
Background The expansion of online gambling in the UK has been accompanied by an increase in the number of novel betting products, particularly for soccer. The present research investigates which types of sports bettors are the most likely to use novel gambling products called ‘custom sports bets’ (CSBs), which allow gamblers to create their own unique bets.Method A large-scale, cross-sectional survey of online sports/horse racing bettors (n = 78…
The visibility of gambling sponsorship in football related products marketed directly to children
UK law prohibits direct marketing of gambling to children. However, our data, gathered between 2018 and 2020, demonstrate that gambling logos occur frequently in football-related products and media consumed by children. This is a pressing issue for policymakers because research suggests that although children engage with football as spectators, they engage more often through readily available material culture. Discussions in the media about spons…
Nothing can be done until everything is done’: The use of complexity arguments by food, beverage, alcohol and gambling industries
BACKGROUND: Corporations use a range of strategies to dispute their role in causing public health harms and to limit the scope of effective public health interventions. This is well documented in relation to the activities of the tobacco industry, but research on other industries is less well developed. We therefore analysed public statements and documents from four unhealthy commodity industries to investigate whether and how they used arguments…
Afterword: Manufacturing Gambling
In this afterword I outline the expansion and reclassification of gambling which has been taking place over the past 30 years. Expansion has coincided with the emergence of gambling studies, which concentrates on identifying and counting pathological subjects as ‘problem gamblers’. This focus on individual consumption deflects attention from broader structural questions including the redistributive effects of gambling expenditure and taxation. Et…
A place for men to come and do their thing: Constructing masculinities in betting shops in London
During fieldwork conducted with workers and customers in betting shops in London research participants consistently conceptualized betting shops as masculine spaces in contrast to the femininity of other places including home and the bingo hall. According to this argument, betting on horses and dogs was 'men's business' and betting shops were 'men's worlds'. Two explanations were offered to account for this situation. The first suggested that bet…
Qualitative Research in Gambling: Exploring the production and consumption of risk
Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the exist…
Lives With Others: Climate Change and Human-Animal Relations
This review assesses the contribution that a holistic, multisited, and multiscalar anthropology can make to the investigation of climate change and its impact on various human-animal assemblages. Anthropologists have a long-standing interest in animal management under changing environmental conditions. I focus on recent material that investigates the impact of anthropogenic climate change on human-animal relations using ethnography from Africa, A…
The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
Horse versus machine: Battles in the Betting Shop
Changes in regulation and taxation during the past decade have had a profound effect on the experience of betting in dedicated shops in the United Kingdom. This article explores how betting shop customers and staff in London have responded to the introduction of gambling machines depicting roulette and other casino-type games in an environment that was traditionally dedicated to betting on horse and dog racing. The rise of machine gambling has be…
Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Science, Politics, and the Presidential Aids 'Cure
In early 2007 the President of a small African country announced his ‘cure’ for AIDS based on herbal, Islamic, and traditional medicine, resulting in the enrolment of several hundred people testing HIV-positive. This unleashed an ongoing yet remarkably silent controversy around AIDS treatment. The emergence of the presidential treatment can be understood in the political and scientific context of recent global AIDS funding and programming, and lo…
High stakes: Florida Seminole gaming and sovereignty - By Jessica R. Cattelino
Casino capitalism' and the financial crisis
I argue that by describing the current financial crisis as the result of 'casino capitalism' commentators are reinforcing familiar and baseless assumptions about exchange and deflecting serious criticism from the true causes of the problem and how we might respond to them. I refer to recent ethnography by anthropologists working in international finance and to three features of casinos: customers, markets and regulation, in order to support the a…
The horse, the Kyrgyz horse and the 'Kyrgyz horse
Ethnographic material gathered among horse owners in Kyrgyzstan, as part of a multi disciplinary project based at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research is used to explore diverse ideas about horse breeding
Dolly mixtures: The remaking of genealogy - By Sarah Franklin
Bon sang ne saurait mentir: Reproduction d'hommes et de chevaux à Newmarket
Newmarket, plus connu sous le nom de « Headquarters » (le « Quartier général »), est le centre historique et actuel de la course de plat en Angleterre. Une relation unique s'y est tissée entre les professionnels des courses et les chevaux de race, dans laquelle des notions spécifiquement humaines - comme l'hérédité, la classe ou le genre - sont appliquées aux chevaux, tandis que des termes liés à la reproduction animale s'utilisent pour les homme…
Gambling and survival in native North America - By Paul Pasquaretta
Falling in Love with Horses: The International Thoroughbred Auction
Based on fieldwork in Newmarket, England, and Kentucky, this paper examines the acts of looking that take place at international thoroughbred horse auctions. Racehorse caretakers (owners) employ bloodstock agents to select the yearling thoroughbred who will make the best racehorse as a 2-year-old and, hopefully, successful stallion or broodmare after retiring from the track as a 4- or 5-year old. The paper assesses the criteria used to assess yea…
Turf wars: Arab dimensions to British racehorse breeding
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding,…
A place for men to come and do their thing: Constructing masculinities in betting shops in London
During fieldwork conducted with workers and customers in betting shops in London research participants consistently conceptualized betting shops as masculine spaces in contrast to the femininity of other places including home and the bingo hall. According to this argument, betting on horses and dogs was 'men's business' and betting shops were 'men's worlds'. Two explanations were offered to account for this situation. The first suggested that bet…
Horse versus machine: Battles in the Betting Shop
Changes in regulation and taxation during the past decade have had a profound effect on the experience of betting in dedicated shops in the United Kingdom. This article explores how betting shop customers and staff in London have responded to the introduction of gambling machines depicting roulette and other casino-type games in an environment that was traditionally dedicated to betting on horse and dog racing. The rise of machine gambling has be…
Science, Politics, and the Presidential Aids 'Cure
In early 2007 the President of a small African country announced his ‘cure’ for AIDS based on herbal, Islamic, and traditional medicine, resulting in the enrolment of several hundred people testing HIV-positive. This unleashed an ongoing yet remarkably silent controversy around AIDS treatment. The emergence of the presidential treatment can be understood in the political and scientific context of recent global AIDS funding and programming, and lo…
Casino capitalism' and the financial crisis
I argue that by describing the current financial crisis as the result of 'casino capitalism' commentators are reinforcing familiar and baseless assumptions about exchange and deflecting serious criticism from the true causes of the problem and how we might respond to them. I refer to recent ethnography by anthropologists working in international finance and to three features of casinos: customers, markets and regulation, in order to support the a…
The horse, the Kyrgyz horse and the 'Kyrgyz horse
Ethnographic material gathered among horse owners in Kyrgyzstan, as part of a multi disciplinary project based at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research is used to explore diverse ideas about horse breeding
Turf wars: Arab dimensions to British racehorse breeding
Falling in Love with Horses: The International Thoroughbred Auction
Based on fieldwork in Newmarket, England, and Kentucky, this paper examines the acts of looking that take place at international thoroughbred horse auctions. Racehorse caretakers (owners) employ bloodstock agents to select the yearling thoroughbred who will make the best racehorse as a 2-year-old and, hopefully, successful stallion or broodmare after retiring from the track as a 4- or 5-year old. The paper assesses the criteria used to assess yea…
Nothing can be done until everything is done’: The use of complexity arguments by food, beverage, alcohol and gambling industries
BACKGROUND: Corporations use a range of strategies to dispute their role in causing public health harms and to limit the scope of effective public health interventions. This is well documented in relation to the activities of the tobacco industry, but research on other industries is less well developed. We therefore analysed public statements and documents from four unhealthy commodity industries to investigate whether and how they used arguments…
Bon sang ne saurait mentir: Reproduction d'hommes et de chevaux à Newmarket
Newmarket, plus connu sous le nom de « Headquarters » (le « Quartier général »), est le centre historique et actuel de la course de plat en Angleterre. Une relation unique s'y est tissée entre les professionnels des courses et les chevaux de race, dans laquelle des notions spécifiquement humaines - comme l'hérédité, la classe ou le genre - sont appliquées aux chevaux, tandis que des termes liés à la reproduction animale s'utilisent pour les homme…
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding,…
Turf wars: Arab dimensions to British racehorse breeding
Falling in Love with Horses: The International Thoroughbred Auction
Based on fieldwork in Newmarket, England, and Kentucky, this paper examines the acts of looking that take place at international thoroughbred horse auctions. Racehorse caretakers (owners) employ bloodstock agents to select the yearling thoroughbred who will make the best racehorse as a 2-year-old and, hopefully, successful stallion or broodmare after retiring from the track as a 4- or 5-year old. The paper assesses the criteria used to assess yea…
Bon sang ne saurait mentir: Reproduction d'hommes et de chevaux à Newmarket
Newmarket, plus connu sous le nom de « Headquarters » (le « Quartier général »), est le centre historique et actuel de la course de plat en Angleterre. Une relation unique s'y est tissée entre les professionnels des courses et les chevaux de race, dans laquelle des notions spécifiquement humaines - comme l'hérédité, la classe ou le genre - sont appliquées aux chevaux, tandis que des termes liés à la reproduction animale s'utilisent pour les homme…
Gambling and survival in native North America - By Paul Pasquaretta
Dolly mixtures: The remaking of genealogy - By Sarah Franklin
Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Science, Politics, and the Presidential Aids 'Cure
In early 2007 the President of a small African country announced his ‘cure’ for AIDS based on herbal, Islamic, and traditional medicine, resulting in the enrolment of several hundred people testing HIV-positive. This unleashed an ongoing yet remarkably silent controversy around AIDS treatment. The emergence of the presidential treatment can be understood in the political and scientific context of recent global AIDS funding and programming, and lo…
High stakes: Florida Seminole gaming and sovereignty - By Jessica R. Cattelino
Casino capitalism' and the financial crisis
I argue that by describing the current financial crisis as the result of 'casino capitalism' commentators are reinforcing familiar and baseless assumptions about exchange and deflecting serious criticism from the true causes of the problem and how we might respond to them. I refer to recent ethnography by anthropologists working in international finance and to three features of casinos: customers, markets and regulation, in order to support the a…
The horse, the Kyrgyz horse and the 'Kyrgyz horse
Ethnographic material gathered among horse owners in Kyrgyzstan, as part of a multi disciplinary project based at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research is used to explore diverse ideas about horse breeding
Lives With Others: Climate Change and Human-Animal Relations
This review assesses the contribution that a holistic, multisited, and multiscalar anthropology can make to the investigation of climate change and its impact on various human-animal assemblages. Anthropologists have a long-standing interest in animal management under changing environmental conditions. I focus on recent material that investigates the impact of anthropogenic climate change on human-animal relations using ethnography from Africa, A…
The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
Horse versus machine: Battles in the Betting Shop
Changes in regulation and taxation during the past decade have had a profound effect on the experience of betting in dedicated shops in the United Kingdom. This article explores how betting shop customers and staff in London have responded to the introduction of gambling machines depicting roulette and other casino-type games in an environment that was traditionally dedicated to betting on horse and dog racing. The rise of machine gambling has be…
Qualitative Research in Gambling: Exploring the production and consumption of risk
Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the exist…
Afterword: Manufacturing Gambling
In this afterword I outline the expansion and reclassification of gambling which has been taking place over the past 30 years. Expansion has coincided with the emergence of gambling studies, which concentrates on identifying and counting pathological subjects as ‘problem gamblers’. This focus on individual consumption deflects attention from broader structural questions including the redistributive effects of gambling expenditure and taxation. Et…
A place for men to come and do their thing: Constructing masculinities in betting shops in London
During fieldwork conducted with workers and customers in betting shops in London research participants consistently conceptualized betting shops as masculine spaces in contrast to the femininity of other places including home and the bingo hall. According to this argument, betting on horses and dogs was 'men's business' and betting shops were 'men's worlds'. Two explanations were offered to account for this situation. The first suggested that bet…
Nothing can be done until everything is done’: The use of complexity arguments by food, beverage, alcohol and gambling industries
BACKGROUND: Corporations use a range of strategies to dispute their role in causing public health harms and to limit the scope of effective public health interventions. This is well documented in relation to the activities of the tobacco industry, but research on other industries is less well developed. We therefore analysed public statements and documents from four unhealthy commodity industries to investigate whether and how they used arguments…
Who uses custom sports betting products
Background The expansion of online gambling in the UK has been accompanied by an increase in the number of novel betting products, particularly for soccer. The present research investigates which types of sports bettors are the most likely to use novel gambling products called ‘custom sports bets’ (CSBs), which allow gamblers to create their own unique bets.Method A large-scale, cross-sectional survey of online sports/horse racing bettors (n = 78…
The visibility of gambling sponsorship in football related products marketed directly to children
UK law prohibits direct marketing of gambling to children. However, our data, gathered between 2018 and 2020, demonstrate that gambling logos occur frequently in football-related products and media consumed by children. This is a pressing issue for policymakers because research suggests that although children engage with football as spectators, they engage more often through readily available material culture. Discussions in the media about spons…
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries
OBJECTIVES: Most non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food and drink products, collectively termed unhealthy commodities. This paper explores the links between unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs), analyses the extent of alignment across their corporate political strategies, and proposes a cohesive systems approach to research a…
Medicine burden experiences of people living with HIV and association with stigma
The medicine burden of people living with HIV (PLWH) is unknown.Between 2018 and 2020, participants completed a survey comprising outcome measures for medicine burden (LMQ-3) and stigma experiences (SSCI-8).Participants were HIV+ adults (18 years), using antiretrovirals (ARV) with or without non-ARV medicines, recruited via two outpatient clinics in southeast England and online via HIV charities across the UK.Spearman's correlations between medic…
Seeing the similarities: Applying a coherent lens to harmful products as drivers of suicide
Fatal self-harm, more commonly referred to as suicide, is a serious public health problem affecting individuals and communities worldwide. Some products and services, such as paracetamol, bridges, and railways, are recognised as requiring regulatory or design interventions to prevent suicide. However, others with well-established associations with suicide, including alcohol, gambling products, pesticides, opioids and firearms, are often framed as…
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