Game studies

Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’

Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’

In Playing Oppression, scholars Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson lay bare the colonialist origins of board games.

Awareness, Social Change, and ‘Critical Play’

Awareness, Social Change, and ‘Critical Play’

In Critical Play, games scholar Mary Flanagan details the long history of games engaging with larger cultural issues and subverting exclusion

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds by Celia Pearce