Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262047918

ISBN13:9780262047913

Release Date:February 2023

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.9" x 9.1"

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Games Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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