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

by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson

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"