Playing Oppression
The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games
$75.91
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2023
Summary
A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning-and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it.
Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment- family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the incisive frameworks of postcolonial theory to a broad historical survey of board games…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047913 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047918 |
| Author: | Mary Flanagan, Mikael Jakobsson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
About The Author
Mary Flanagan
Mary Flanagan is an award-winning game designer and artist. She is Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Chair of Film and Media Studies, and director of the Tiltfactor game research lab at Dartmouth College. She is the author of seven books, including Critical Play (MIT Press).
Mikael Jakobsson plays, creates, teaches, and researches games at the MIT Game Lab and with the artist collective Popsicleta, where his work focuses on the border between game design and game culture. He contributed to Debugging Game History (MIT Press).
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