Feminist war games? : mechanisms of war, feminist values, and interventional games / edited by Jon Saklofske, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Jon Bath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saklofske, Jon, editor.

Arbuckle, Alyssa, editor.

Bath, Jon, editor.

Series:

Digital research in the arts and humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

War games--Social aspects.

War games.

Violence in video games--Social aspects.

Violence in video games.

Feminism.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 211 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Feminist war games?

ISBN:

9780367228187

0367228181

OCLC:

1114270954

Publisher Number:

40029779413