Martin Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5168-9416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Who Keeps Company with the Wolf will Learn to Howl
Motivated by the increasing economic significance of investment advisory industries and the prevalence of wrongdoing in financial planning services, we examine whether, and to what extent, employee misconduct is shaped by their local corruption culture. Using novel data of more than 4.7 million adviser-year observations of financial advisers and the Department of Justice’s data on corruption, we find that financial advisers and advisory firms loc…
In Memory of the Q-File
Discussion of “digital performance” is preoccupied with themes of fluidity, variation, ambiguity, and resistance to rigid categorization. And yet these themes correspond more closely to analog principles. The digital ethos indicates regularity, precision, and the elimination of ambivalence. The rationalized industrial practices of stage management, blocking and, in particular, lighting cues prioritize the precisely timed and accurate reproduction…
Capital, class and the social necessity of passenger air transport
The symbiotic, environmentally destructive relationship between passenger air transport and economic output remains inadequately theorised by both transport geographers and mobilities researchers. This article attempts to bridge the two fields by considering passenger air transport as a branch of value production whose useful effect – the movement of people across space – is a ‘connecting artery’ necessary to multiple consumption and production p…
Tourism, capital, and the commodification of place
The tourism industries remain inadequately and inconsistently theorised as a form of capitalist development despite their immense ability to transform spaces and economies. The fundamental proposition that tourism ‘commodifies’ place is widely declared yet rarely critically analysed. There exists confusion about the role of nature and culture, and the experiential nature of consumption, in the commodification of place. To clarify these processes,…
Does carbon pricing reduce air travel? Evidence from the Australian ‘Clean Energy Future’ policy, July 2012 to June 2014
Rehabilitating Reno
Improving spatial microsimulation estimates of health outcomes by including geographic indicators of health behaviour
Coercive commodities and the political economy of involuntary consumption
Coercive commodities are those goods and services that promote 'akratic' consumption - that consumption recognised by consumers themselves to be contrary to their own best interests, all things considered. The production of coercive commodities has become an increasingly significant economic project of fractions of the capitalist class. As a form of secondary exploitation, coercive commodities facilitate the extraction of surplus profits from the…
The relationship between electronic gaming machine accessibility and police-recorded domestic violence
Venue-Level Predictors of Alcohol-Related Violence
Flights of fantasy
Big Gambling”
Globa1 commercial gambling has grown to be an industry of remarkable size and power. Over the past decade, gambling losses have risen from approximately $250 billion \nUSD in 2003 to $450 billion in 2013 (The Economist, 2014). \nNo longer gambling is low-key and small-scale, the \ndifferentiated expression of local cultures {Binde, 2005). It is a global economic project, one central to the liberalisation of markets associated with the emergence o…
Up in the air’
Assessing the Impact of a Remote Area Casino
Since the introduction of electronic gaming machines into public hotels (pubs) and clubs across most of Australia from the mid-1990s onwards, research attention has largely focussed on the impact of gambling venues in densely-populated urban areas along the eastern seaboard. In contrast, despite remote areas being well provisioned with gaming machines and pubs and clubs being important social foci for outback towns, the impact of this form of gam…
Assessing the impact of a remote area casino
Since the introduction of electronic gaming machines into public hotels (pubs) and clubs across most of Australia from the mid-1990s onwards, research attention has largely focussed on the impact of gambling venues in densely-populated urban areas along the eastern seaboard. In contrast, despite remote areas being well provisioned with gaming machines and pubs and clubs being important social foci for outback towns, the impact of this form of gam…
Gambling Spaces and the Racial Dialectics of Social Inclusion
We critically analyse the ways in which a particular gambling space, Lasseters Hotel Casino, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, has incorporated the marginalised Aboriginal population of central Australia into the market economy as consumers, despite the failure of the market and the state to provide meaningful inclusionary alternatives in the realm of production. We explore the ways in which this gambling space has evolved as a synthesis between…
Detection of Problem Gambler Subgroups Using Recursive Partitioning
Statistics, scapegoats and social control
In this essay I examine the relationship between commercial gambling, framed as one example of global capitalist development, and the ways in which western societies respond to the social harms this activity produces. As a starting point, I historically locate a concern with risky gambling as a manifestation of the societal desire to categorise and control statistically deviant populations. I then critically examine the pathological gambler categ…
Following the money’
At its heart, my essay (Young, this issue) was about what research we do, why we do it, and whose interests it serves. I argued that problem gambling prevalence studies (PGPSs) are symptomatic of a
Placing Bets
The liberalisation of gambling in Australia has resulted in the dispersal of 200 000 electronic gaming machines (EGMs) across the country, generating substantial revenues for State governments and the gambling industry as well as causing significant gambling-related harm. While the spatial distribution of EGM venues has been shown to follow a gradient of community disadvantage, little is known about the distinctions between the venues themselves …
Being Moved (On)
It is in the contemporary period of Indigenous cultural recognition that the biopolitical system of policing Aboriginal walkers in Australia's frontier towns has become so normalized that it takes place without public notice, using universally accepted mechanisms for shedding metropolitan areas of the unsightly and unwanted. Ironically, the hypermarginalized hunter-gatherer population can be identified by their perambulation - they walk - a form …
Towards a Critical Geography of Gambling Spaces
I attempt to develop a critical geography of gambling in Australia with particular reference to the proliferation of electronic gaming machines (EGMs), the Australian variant of the Vegas-style ‘slot-machine’, devices that have infiltrated nearly all settlements in the country over the past two decades. As a starting point, I borrow from David Harvey's analysis of the dual logics of power within ‘capitalist imperialism’ to reveal the dialectical …
Pushing buttons‘
The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 was a radical intervention into the lives of Aboriginal residents of the Northern Territory, Australia. One of the intervention's key measures was income management – a scheme designed to limit the range of goods and services that may be purchased with social security payments. The aim of income management was to curb 'anti‐social behaviours' such as excessive gambling and alcohol consum…
The public problem of ‘Aboriginal gambling‘
Gambling by Aboriginal people is increasingly identified as a significant public problem in Australia, eliciting responses mainly concerned with measurement and harm minimisation. We adopt the utilitarian philosophy of John Dewey to critically examine the way this ‘problem’ is socially constructed. We recast our roles as pragmatic researcher‐activists in the ongoing struggle to have Aboriginal practices taken seriously We draw particularly on the…
Gambling, Resource Distribution, and Racial Economy
Our aim in this paper is to examine the ways in which electronic gaming machines (EGMs) redistribute resources to and from three remote towns in the Northern Territory (NT), namely Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy. We describe EGM expenditure levels in each town at the level of the individual venue, examine patterns of socioeconomic status within each town, explore the ways in which EGM markets are racialised through venue gate-keeping prac…
Tourism, capital, and the commodification of place
The tourism industries remain inadequately and inconsistently theorised as a form of capitalist development despite their immense ability to transform spaces and economies. The fundamental proposition that tourism ‘commodifies’ place is widely declared yet rarely critically analysed. There exists confusion about the role of nature and culture, and the experiential nature of consumption, in the commodification of place. To clarify these processes,…
The Social Construction of Tourist Places
Ordinary places become tourist places when they are attributed particular meanings and values which appeal to and attract tourists. In this sense, tourist places are socially constructed and negotiated phenomena. This paper explores place meanings in the context of the Daintree and Cape Tribulation area, Far North Queensland, Australia. Two components of place meaning were examined. Firstly, the meanings of place produced by the tourist industry …
The relationship between tourist motivations and the interpretation of place meanings
Current approaches in cultural geography suggest that how a place is interpreted is directly related to the metaphorical perspective from which that place is viewed. In other words, the meaning attributed to place is dependent on the orientations of particular groups and individuals. This idea was tested in the context of one nature-based tourist place by investigating the link between place meanings and the motivational profiles of 879 visitors …
Gambling, Capitalism and the State
In this article I explore the relationships between commercial gambling and late capitalism. In particular, I am interested in the societal forces that produce gambling as a contemporary form of consumption, which I define as the state-sanctioned commodification of chance.As a theoretical entry point, I employ the typology of games devised by French sociologist Roger Caillois in his 1961 volume Man, Play, Games . Specifically, I develop Caillois’…
Being Moved (On)
It is in the contemporary period of Indigenous cultural recognition that the biopolitical system of policing Aboriginal walkers in Australia's frontier towns has become so normalized that it takes place without public notice, using universally accepted mechanisms for shedding metropolitan areas of the unsightly and unwanted. Ironically, the hypermarginalized hunter-gatherer population can be identified by their perambulation - they walk - a form …
Flights of fantasy
Up in the air’
Gambling, Resource Distribution, and Racial Economy
Our aim in this paper is to examine the ways in which electronic gaming machines (EGMs) redistribute resources to and from three remote towns in the Northern Territory (NT), namely Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy. We describe EGM expenditure levels in each town at the level of the individual venue, examine patterns of socioeconomic status within each town, explore the ways in which EGM markets are racialised through venue gate-keeping prac…
Independent Correlates of Reported Gambling Problems Amongst Indigenous Australians
Evaluative Constructions Of Domestic Tourist Places
Personal construct theory was used to study potential tourists' appraisive images of the major Australian domestic tourist destinations. Seven main evaluative constructs (bipolar discriminations) were identified as being commonly used to appraise destinations. The second stage of the research involved the scoring of places on those seven constructs by potential tourists. Principal components analysis of the resultant matrices showed that construc…
Capital, class and the social necessity of passenger air transport
The symbiotic, environmentally destructive relationship between passenger air transport and economic output remains inadequately theorised by both transport geographers and mobilities researchers. This article attempts to bridge the two fields by considering passenger air transport as a branch of value production whose useful effect – the movement of people across space – is a ‘connecting artery’ necessary to multiple consumption and production p…
Does carbon pricing reduce air travel? Evidence from the Australian ‘Clean Energy Future’ policy, July 2012 to June 2014
Cognitive maps of nature-based tourists
Re‐presenting the great barrier reef to tourists
This study sought to determine whether reef visitors’ ideal images of the Great Barrier Reef were used in the development of visitor expectancies of the reef experience and evaluative judgments of coral reef quality. Using 20 photographs of coral reef environments, a sample of 103 reef tourists judged how similar each photograph was to their ideal, their expectations, the reef they had visited, and a healthy coral reef. It was found that as the m…
Coercive commodities and the political economy of involuntary consumption
Coercive commodities are those goods and services that promote 'akratic' consumption - that consumption recognised by consumers themselves to be contrary to their own best interests, all things considered. The production of coercive commodities has become an increasingly significant economic project of fractions of the capitalist class. As a form of secondary exploitation, coercive commodities facilitate the extraction of surplus profits from the…
The relationship between electronic gaming machine accessibility and police-recorded domestic violence
Towards a Critical Geography of Gambling Spaces
I attempt to develop a critical geography of gambling in Australia with particular reference to the proliferation of electronic gaming machines (EGMs), the Australian variant of the Vegas-style ‘slot-machine’, devices that have infiltrated nearly all settlements in the country over the past two decades. As a starting point, I borrow from David Harvey's analysis of the dual logics of power within ‘capitalist imperialism’ to reveal the dialectical …
Gambling Spaces and the Racial Dialectics of Social Inclusion
We critically analyse the ways in which a particular gambling space, Lasseters Hotel Casino, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, has incorporated the marginalised Aboriginal population of central Australia into the market economy as consumers, despite the failure of the market and the state to provide meaningful inclusionary alternatives in the realm of production. We explore the ways in which this gambling space has evolved as a synthesis between…
Placing Bets
The liberalisation of gambling in Australia has resulted in the dispersal of 200 000 electronic gaming machines (EGMs) across the country, generating substantial revenues for State governments and the gambling industry as well as causing significant gambling-related harm. While the spatial distribution of EGM venues has been shown to follow a gradient of community disadvantage, little is known about the distinctions between the venues themselves …
Pushing buttons‘
The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 was a radical intervention into the lives of Aboriginal residents of the Northern Territory, Australia. One of the intervention's key measures was income management – a scheme designed to limit the range of goods and services that may be purchased with social security payments. The aim of income management was to curb 'anti‐social behaviours' such as excessive gambling and alcohol consum…
Mountains and Molehills
Over the last several decades, electronic gaming machines (EGMs) have been steadily introduced into non-casino gambling venues, that is pubs and clubs, in all Australian jurisdictions apart from Western Australia. This spatial dispersal is of immediate policy concern given the documented relationship between EGM participation and gambling-related harm. However, while research has been conducted on the geography of EGM gambling in metropolitan Aus…
The public problem of ‘Aboriginal gambling‘
Gambling by Aboriginal people is increasingly identified as a significant public problem in Australia, eliciting responses mainly concerned with measurement and harm minimisation. We adopt the utilitarian philosophy of John Dewey to critically examine the way this ‘problem’ is socially constructed. We recast our roles as pragmatic researcher‐activists in the ongoing struggle to have Aboriginal practices taken seriously We draw particularly on the…
Transience, memory and induced amnesia
The ‘Territory’ is distinctive for the degree to which the non-Indigenous population in particular migrates in and out. This mobility covers the spectrum from short term tourist and business migration at one end, through to longer term residential migration at the other. Focusing on the urban centre of Darwin, this article explores the ways in which high population turnover results in a process of selective remembering and forgetting, one that re…
Evaluative Constructions Of Domestic Tourist Places
Personal construct theory was used to study potential tourists' appraisive images of the major Australian domestic tourist destinations. Seven main evaluative constructs (bipolar discriminations) were identified as being commonly used to appraise destinations. The second stage of the research involved the scoring of places on those seven constructs by potential tourists. Principal components analysis of the resultant matrices showed that construc…
Evaluative Images and Tourism
Prior research at the regional scale suggests that two components underlie people's evaluations of tourist destina tions: arousing-sleepy and pleasant-unpleasant. A study was undertaken to see if these dimensions also apply at the international and local levels. Although their relevance at the local level appeared to be masked by individuals' personal experiences and knowledge, their applicability at the international scale supports the existence…
Re‐presenting the great barrier reef to tourists
This study sought to determine whether reef visitors’ ideal images of the Great Barrier Reef were used in the development of visitor expectancies of the reef experience and evaluative judgments of coral reef quality. Using 20 photographs of coral reef environments, a sample of 103 reef tourists judged how similar each photograph was to their ideal, their expectations, the reef they had visited, and a healthy coral reef. It was found that as the m…
Effectiveness of Brief Counseling in Reducing HIV Risk Behavior in Injecting Drug Users
Cognitive maps of nature-based tourists
The Social Construction of Tourist Places
Ordinary places become tourist places when they are attributed particular meanings and values which appeal to and attract tourists. In this sense, tourist places are socially constructed and negotiated phenomena. This paper explores place meanings in the context of the Daintree and Cape Tribulation area, Far North Queensland, Australia. Two components of place meaning were examined. Firstly, the meanings of place produced by the tourist industry …
The relationship between tourist motivations and the interpretation of place meanings
Current approaches in cultural geography suggest that how a place is interpreted is directly related to the metaphorical perspective from which that place is viewed. In other words, the meaning attributed to place is dependent on the orientations of particular groups and individuals. This idea was tested in the context of one nature-based tourist place by investigating the link between place meanings and the motivational profiles of 879 visitors …
Sogs and CGPI
Player Preferences and Social Harm
Transience, memory and induced amnesia
The ‘Territory’ is distinctive for the degree to which the non-Indigenous population in particular migrates in and out. This mobility covers the spectrum from short term tourist and business migration at one end, through to longer term residential migration at the other. Focusing on the urban centre of Darwin, this article explores the ways in which high population turnover results in a process of selective remembering and forgetting, one that re…
Mountains and Molehills
Over the last several decades, electronic gaming machines (EGMs) have been steadily introduced into non-casino gambling venues, that is pubs and clubs, in all Australian jurisdictions apart from Western Australia. This spatial dispersal is of immediate policy concern given the documented relationship between EGM participation and gambling-related harm. However, while research has been conducted on the geography of EGM gambling in metropolitan Aus…
Who Plays What? Participation Profiles in Chance Versus Skill-based Gambling
Gambling, Capitalism and the State
In this article I explore the relationships between commercial gambling and late capitalism. In particular, I am interested in the societal forces that produce gambling as a contemporary form of consumption, which I define as the state-sanctioned commodification of chance.As a theoretical entry point, I employ the typology of games devised by French sociologist Roger Caillois in his 1961 volume Man, Play, Games . Specifically, I develop Caillois’…
Independent Correlates of Reported Gambling Problems Amongst Indigenous Australians
Towards a Critical Geography of Gambling Spaces
I attempt to develop a critical geography of gambling in Australia with particular reference to the proliferation of electronic gaming machines (EGMs), the Australian variant of the Vegas-style ‘slot-machine’, devices that have infiltrated nearly all settlements in the country over the past two decades. As a starting point, I borrow from David Harvey's analysis of the dual logics of power within ‘capitalist imperialism’ to reveal the dialectical …
Pushing buttons‘
The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 was a radical intervention into the lives of Aboriginal residents of the Northern Territory, Australia. One of the intervention's key measures was income management – a scheme designed to limit the range of goods and services that may be purchased with social security payments. The aim of income management was to curb 'anti‐social behaviours' such as excessive gambling and alcohol consum…
The public problem of ‘Aboriginal gambling‘
Gambling by Aboriginal people is increasingly identified as a significant public problem in Australia, eliciting responses mainly concerned with measurement and harm minimisation. We adopt the utilitarian philosophy of John Dewey to critically examine the way this ‘problem’ is socially constructed. We recast our roles as pragmatic researcher‐activists in the ongoing struggle to have Aboriginal practices taken seriously We draw particularly on the…
Gambling, Resource Distribution, and Racial Economy
Our aim in this paper is to examine the ways in which electronic gaming machines (EGMs) redistribute resources to and from three remote towns in the Northern Territory (NT), namely Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy. We describe EGM expenditure levels in each town at the level of the individual venue, examine patterns of socioeconomic status within each town, explore the ways in which EGM markets are racialised through venue gate-keeping prac…
Detection of Problem Gambler Subgroups Using Recursive Partitioning
Statistics, scapegoats and social control
In this essay I examine the relationship between commercial gambling, framed as one example of global capitalist development, and the ways in which western societies respond to the social harms this activity produces. As a starting point, I historically locate a concern with risky gambling as a manifestation of the societal desire to categorise and control statistically deviant populations. I then critically examine the pathological gambler categ…
Following the money’
At its heart, my essay (Young, this issue) was about what research we do, why we do it, and whose interests it serves. I argued that problem gambling prevalence studies (PGPSs) are symptomatic of a
Placing Bets
The liberalisation of gambling in Australia has resulted in the dispersal of 200 000 electronic gaming machines (EGMs) across the country, generating substantial revenues for State governments and the gambling industry as well as causing significant gambling-related harm. While the spatial distribution of EGM venues has been shown to follow a gradient of community disadvantage, little is known about the distinctions between the venues themselves …
Being Moved (On)
It is in the contemporary period of Indigenous cultural recognition that the biopolitical system of policing Aboriginal walkers in Australia's frontier towns has become so normalized that it takes place without public notice, using universally accepted mechanisms for shedding metropolitan areas of the unsightly and unwanted. Ironically, the hypermarginalized hunter-gatherer population can be identified by their perambulation - they walk - a form …
Assessing the Impact of a Remote Area Casino
Since the introduction of electronic gaming machines into public hotels (pubs) and clubs across most of Australia from the mid-1990s onwards, research attention has largely focussed on the impact of gambling venues in densely-populated urban areas along the eastern seaboard. In contrast, despite remote areas being well provisioned with gaming machines and pubs and clubs being important social foci for outback towns, the impact of this form of gam…
Assessing the impact of a remote area casino
Since the introduction of electronic gaming machines into public hotels (pubs) and clubs across most of Australia from the mid-1990s onwards, research attention has largely focussed on the impact of gambling venues in densely-populated urban areas along the eastern seaboard. In contrast, despite remote areas being well provisioned with gaming machines and pubs and clubs being important social foci for outback towns, the impact of this form of gam…
Psychology (24 works) · Geography (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works)