Transnational Play : : Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games / / Anne-Marie Schleiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Schleiner, Anne-Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Games and Play ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)

Transnational Play makes a case for approaching gameplay as a global industry and set of practices that also includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Such participation includes gameplay in cafes, games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, piracy and cheats, localization, urban playful art in Latin America, and the development of culturally unique mobile games. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on global play, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, post-colonialism, geopolitics, and game studies. This book looks at who develops, localizes, and consumes games, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Transnational Play -- Section One. Reorienting Player Geographies -- Section Two. Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border -- Section Three. From Global to Local Game Development -- Conclusion: Play Privilege -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index