Divide and the Rules: A Study on the Colonial Inheritance of Digital Games
The current article is an exploration into the colonial inheritance of digital games. It argues that the pervasiveness and persistence of discursive practices, like imagining the play world as the otherworld and valuing the play world for its pedagogical potential, are tied to the colonial logic of...
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| description | The current article is an exploration into the colonial inheritance of digital games. It argues that the pervasiveness and persistence of discursive practices, like imagining the play world as the otherworld and valuing the play world for its pedagogical potential, are tied to the colonial logic of exclusion, extraction and exploitation. Perpetuation of these colonial conceptualizations in the discourse surrounding digital games makes attempts at decolonization ineffective. The essay seeks to explicate the colonial in these discursive formulations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-76e7e68ae04d458da3815118bee692372023-11-19T01:22:46ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872023-08-011248310.3390/h12040083Divide and the Rules: A Study on the Colonial Inheritance of Digital GamesPrabhash Ranjan Tripathy0School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, IndiaThe current article is an exploration into the colonial inheritance of digital games. It argues that the pervasiveness and persistence of discursive practices, like imagining the play world as the otherworld and valuing the play world for its pedagogical potential, are tied to the colonial logic of exclusion, extraction and exploitation. Perpetuation of these colonial conceptualizations in the discourse surrounding digital games makes attempts at decolonization ineffective. The essay seeks to explicate the colonial in these discursive formulations.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/4/83colonialismvideogameshuntingOWWgameworlds |
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