Per Binde
About Per Binde
- PhD in social anthropology in 1997.
- Associate professor since 2010.
- Researcher at the University of Gothenburg since 1997.
Previous research areas
- Symbolism, ritual and myth relating to vitality and death in South Italian cultural tradition (doctoral thesis);
- The symbolic landscape of the city of Rome;
- Risk perception, risk communication and siting controversy in large scale infrastructure projects.
Areas of interest Per Binde has studied gambling since 2001. His interest in gambling is broad, including regulation issues and problem gambling, but with a focus on the cultural dimensions of gambling and its social contexts.
Binde has done extensive field studies in Swedish gambling venues. With ethnographic and historical sources as a base, he has analyzed the distribution of gambling in the pre-colonial world, the relationships between gambling and socio-economic systems, and between gambling and religion. Several of Binde's empirical studies have concerned problem gambling. He has also written about regulation issues, analyzed data from population studies and reviewed various areas of gambling research.
Read more about Per Binde’s gambling research at his website The Anthropology of Gambling
Current research Per Binde’s current research follows several tracks in the multidisciplinary field of gambling studies. Currently the focus is on exploring embezzlement and similar economic crimes committed at the workplace by problem gamblers. Other current interests are gambling advertising, the riskiness of various forms of gambling, and cultural aspects of the concept of “disordered gambling” in psychiatric nosology.
Teaching and tutoring Supervision and examination at the School of Global Studies. Per Binde is a sought-after speaker and has over the past ten years delivered numerous lectures on gambling and problem gambling for public authorities, nonprofit organizations and stakeholders in the gaming sector.
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The Conceptual Framework of Harmful Gambling: A revised framework for understanding gambling
harm
Margo Hilbrecht, David Baxter, Max Abbott, Per Binde, Luke Clark, David C. Hodgins, Darrel Manitowabi, Lena Quilty, Jessika SpÅngberg, Rachel Volberg, Douglas Walker, Robert J. Williams
Journal of Behavioral Addictions - 2020-01-01 -
Risk of problem gambling among occupational groups: A population and registry
study
Per Binde, Ulla Romild
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2020-01-01 -
Self-reported negative influence of gambling advertising in a Swedish population-based
sample
Per Binde, Ulla Romild
Journal of Gambling Studies - 2019-01-01 -
Cadre conceptuel du jeu préjudiciable: Une collaboration internationale, troisième
édition
Max Abbott, Per Binde, Luke Clarke, David Hodgins, Darrel Manitowabi, Lena Quilty, Jessika Spångberg, Rachel Volberg, Douglas Walker, Robert Williams
- 2018-01-01 -
Conceptual framework of harmful gambling: An international collaboration, Third
Edition
Max Abbott, Per Binde, Luke Clark, David Hogins, Mark Johnson, Darrel Manitowabi, Lena Quilty, Jessika Spångberg, Rachel Volberg, Douglas Walker, Robert Williams
- 2018-01-01 -
Configurations of gambling change and harm: Qualitative findings from the Swedish longitudinal gambling study
(Swelogs)
Eva Samuelsson, Kristina Sundqvist, Per Binde
Addiction Research and Theory - 2018-01-01 -
Forms of gambling, gambling involvement and problem gambling: Evidence from a Swedish population
survey
Per Binde, Ulla Romild, Rachel A. Volberg
International Gambling Studies - 2017-01-01 -
Preventing and responding to gambling-related harm and crime in the
workplace
Per Binde
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2016-01-01 -
Gambling-related employee embezzlement: A study of Swedish newspaper
reports
Per Binde
Journal of Gambling Issues - 2016-01-01 -
Gambling-related embezzlement in the workplace: A qualitative
study
Per Binde
International Gambling Studies - 2016-01-01 -
The Swedish translation of DSM-5 “Gambling Disorder”: Reflections on nosology and
terminology
Per Binde, David Forsström
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2015-01-01 -
Conceptual Framework of Harmful Gambling: An International Collaboration (Revised
Edition)
Max Abbott, Per Binde, Luke Clark, David Hodgins, David Korn, Alexius Pereira, Lena Quilty, Anna Thomas, Rachel Volberg, Douglas Walker, Robert Williams
- 2015-01-01 -
Gambling advertising: A critical research
review
Per Binde
- 2014-01-01 -
Games of life and death: The judicial uses of dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century
Sweden
Per Binde
UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal - 2014-01-01 -
Gambling in Sweden: The cultural and socio-political
context
Per Binde
Addiction - 2014-01-01 -
”Spelberoende” och relaterade begrepp: Vad betyder de
egentligen?
Per Binde
Lotteriinspektionens skriftserie - 2013-01-01 -
Spelberoende: Forskning för en hållbar
spelpolitik
Per Binde, Jessika Svensson, Anders Tengström
- 2013-01-01 -
Conceptual Framework of Harmful Gambling: An International
Collaboration
Max Abbott, Per Binde, David Hodgins, David Korn, Alexius Pereira, Rachel Volberg, Robert Williams
- 2013-01-01 -
Why people gamble: A model with five motivational
dimensions
Per Binde
International Gambling Studies - 2013-01-01 -
Att bedöma spelformers riskfylldhet: En metodologisk diskussion i ett
regleringsperspektiv
Per Binde
Lotteriinspektionens skriftserie - 2012-01-01 -
A mutual support group for young problem
gamblers
Per Binde
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - 2012-01-01 -
A Swedish mutual support society of problem
gamblers
Per Binde
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - 2012-01-01 -
Trotting territory: The cultural realm of Swedish horse
betting
Per Binde
Gambling, Space and Time: Shifting Boundaries and Cultures, eds. P. Raento & D. Schwartz - 2011-01-01 -
What are the most harmful forms of gambling? Analyzing problem gambling prevalence
surveys
Per Binde
- 2011-01-01 -
Recension av K. Jansbøl "Det danske spillemiljø: En antropologisk
undersøgelse"
Per Binde
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2010-01-01 -
De svenska
spelberoendeföreningarna
Per Binde
Spelberoendes riksförbund 10 år: En jubileumsskrift, red. P. Binde & J. Jonsson - 2010-01-01 -
Spelberoendes riksförbund 10 år: En
jubileumsskrift
Per Binde, Jakob Jonsson
- 2010-01-01 -
Inledning: Spelberoendes riksförbund tio
år
Per Binde, Jakob Jonsson
Spelberoendes riksförbund 10 år: En jubileumsskrift, red. P. Binde & J. Jonsson - 2010-01-01 -
Sjutton också, udda igen! Frank Heller och
rouletten
Per Binde
Frank Heller och hasarden, red. G. Wessberg (Frank Heller-sällskapets skriftserie, vol. 5) - 2010-01-01 -
Syna korten: En insats mot spelproblem bland
unga
Per Binde
- 2010-01-01 -
Gambling motivation and involvement: A review of social science
research
Per Binde
- 2009-01-01 -
Exploring the impact of gambling advertising: An interview study of problem
gamblers
Per Binde
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - 2009-01-01 -
Vilka är de mest riskfyllda spelformerna? En analys av befolkningsstudier av
spelproblem
Per Binde
- 2009-01-01 -
"You could become a millionaire": Truth, deception and immagination in gambling
advertising
Per Binde
Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations, red. S.F. Kingma - 2009-01-01 -
Report from Sweden: The first state-owned Internet poker
site
Per Binde
Gaming Law Review - 2007-01-01 -
Gambling and religion: Histories of concord and
conflict
Per Binde
Journal of Gambling Issues - 2007-01-01 -
Selling dreams - causing nightmares? On gambling advertising and problem
gambling
Per Binde
Journal of Gambling Issues - 2007-01-01 -
Spelreklam och spelberoende: En
intervjustudie
Per Binde
- 2007-01-01 -
The good, the bad and the unhappy: The cultural meanings of newspaper reporting on jackpot
winners
Per Binde
International Gambling Studies - 2007-01-01 -
Review of Yale D. Belanger, "Gambling with the Future: The Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in
Canada"
Per Binde
International Gambling Studies - 2007-01-01 -
Gambling, Exchange Systems, and
Moralities
Per Binde
Journal of Gambling Studies - 2005-01-01 -
Gambling across cultures: Mapping worldwide occurrence and learning from ethnographic
comparison
Per Binde
International Gambling Studies - 2005-01-01 -
Att sälja en dröm: Om spelreklam och dess
påverkan
Per Binde
- 2005-01-01 -
Spel i ett antropologiskt
perspektiv
Per Binde
Socialt Perspektiv - 2005-01-01 -
Spel i ett kulturellt perspekiv. Paper presenterat vid Fjärde Nordiska Konferensen om Spelberoende, arrangerad av Stiftelsen Nordiska Sällskapet för Upplysning om Spelberoende (SNSUS), Lillehammer, 29-30 mars
2004.
Per Binde
- 2004-01-01 -
Schismogenesis in a Swedish case of railway
planning
Per Binde, Åsa Boholm
Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning / Boholm, Åsa, Löfstedt, Ragnar - 2004-01-01 -
Risk som
diskurs
Per Binde
Osäkerhetens horisonter: Kulturella och etiska perspektiv på samhällets riskfrågor, red.: Å. Boholm, S.O. Hansson, J. Persson & M. Petterson - 2002-01-01 -
Nature in Roman Catholic
tradition
Per Binde
Anthropological Quarterly - 2001-01-01 -
The Swedish railroads: A brief historical
background
Per Binde
National Objctives - Local Objections: Railroad Modernization in Sweden, ed. Å. Boholm - 2000-01-01 -
Case studies of railway
controversies
Per Binde
National Objctives - Local Objections: Railroad Modernization in Sweden, ed. Å. Boholm - 2000-01-01 -
The legal framework for railway
construction
Per Binde
National Objctives - Local Objections: Railroad Modernization in Sweden, ed.: Å. Boholm - 2000-01-01 -
Tracks, trains and tunnels: Ideas and concerns about
risk
Per Binde
National Objctives - Local Objections: Railroad Modernization in Sweden, ed.: Å. Boholm - 2000-01-01 -
Risk discourse: The rhetoric of railway hazards in siting
controversy
Per Binde
Foresight and Precaution (Proceedings of ESREL 2000, SARS and SRA-Europe Annual Conference), eds.: Cottam, M.P., Harvey, D.W., Pape, R.P. & Tait, J. - 2000-01-01 -
Bodies of vital matter: Notions of life force and transcendence in traditional southern
Italy
Per Binde
- 1999-01-01 -
Nature versus city: Landscapes of Italian
Fascism
Per Binde
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space - 1999-01-01 -
On symbolic
meaning
Per Binde
Discussions in social anthropology and culture history - 1989-01-01 -
Uruguayare i Göteborg: Utbildning och
yrkesverksamhet
Per Binde
- 1986-01-01