Playing Oppression
The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games
Published on 28. February 2023
240 pages
978-0-262-37372-2 (ISBN)
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Mary Flanagan | Mikael Jakobsson
Playing Oppression
The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games
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02/2023
MIT Press
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Mary Flanagan, an award-winning game designer and artist, 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).
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).
Content
Acknowledgments vii
1 Colonial Fantasies 1
2 Establishing Mindsets: Politics and Ideology in Early Board Games 21
3 World as Empire 39
4 Trading Excuses 67
5 Winners and Losers: Western Board Games in the Postwar Era 91
6 Explorers and Exploiters 113
7 Representations of the Other 125
8 Urgency and Hope: A Countercolonial Revolution 145
Glossary 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 195
Ludography 209
Index 217
1 Colonial Fantasies 1
2 Establishing Mindsets: Politics and Ideology in Early Board Games 21
3 World as Empire 39
4 Trading Excuses 67
5 Winners and Losers: Western Board Games in the Postwar Era 91
6 Explorers and Exploiters 113
7 Representations of the Other 125
8 Urgency and Hope: A Countercolonial Revolution 145
Glossary 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 195
Ludography 209
Index 217
