Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict
|
Buy Now
Feminist War Games? - Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,213
Discovery Miles 12 130
|
|
Feminist War Games? - Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games (Paperback)
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and
collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by
asking whether feminist values can be asserted as interventional
approaches to the design, play, and analysis of games that focus on
armed conflict and economies of violence. Focusing on the ways that
games, both digital and table-top, can function as narratives,
arguments, methods, and instruments of research, the volume
demonstrates the impact of computing technologies on our
perceptions, ideologies, and actions. Exploring the compatibility
between feminist values and systems of war through games is a
unique way to pose destabilizing questions, solutions, and
approaches; to prototype alternative narratives; and to challenge
current idealizations and assumptions. Positing that feminist
values can be asserted as a critical method of design, as an
ideological design influence, and as a lens that determines how
designers and players interact with and within arenas of war, the
book addresses the persistence and brutality of war and issues
surrounding violence in games, whilst also considering the place
and purpose of video games in our cultural moment. Feminist War
Games? is a timely volume that questions the often-toxic nature of
online and gaming cultures. As such, the book will appeal to a
broad variety of disciplinary interests, including sociology,
education, psychology, literature, history, politics, game studies,
digital humanities, media and cultural studies, and gender studies,
as well as those interested in playing, or designing, socially
engaged games.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|