All tagged Game Studies
Edmond Chang reviews Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology. Trammell challenges Game Studies to engage with BIPOC histories, scholarship, and pedagogies ;through feeling and understanding that play is embodied practice, affective experiences; and “through the lens of Black radical tradition,” what he calls “a form of intellectual reparations.”
Samantha Tecson reviews Frenchie Lunning’s Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence, an academic study of cosplay
Gaming Representation offers an invaluable examination of representation in video games, highlighting the urgency of intersectional analysis and calls for accountability.
Tof Eklund recommends Shira Chess’s Play Like A Feminist, a book stressing the need for feminist interventions in gaming, even if it doesn’t always integrate intersectional issues like race and queerness.
