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

Mary Flanagan

Mangaka: Mary Flanagan
First published: 2023

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This volume offers a critical examination of how colonial themes are woven into the mechanics and narratives of board games. By exploring the legacy of conquest and empire, it provides an essential framework for understanding how tabletop play reflects and reinforces historical power structures.

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Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games, authored by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press in 2023, examines the intersection of ludology, history, and imperial ideology. The volume emerged from a critical need to analyze how board games, often perceived as innocent leisure, have historically codified narratives of dominance, colonization, and racial hierarchy. Flanagan, a distinguished scholar and game designer, situates these games within the broader sociological context of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to demonstrate how entertainment served as a tool for normalizing colonial expansion.

The book design and scholarly framework focus on deconstructing the mechanics of conquest embedded in classic tabletop games. Flanagan’s research delves into the aesthetic and structural choices made by historical game creators, arguing that these designs were rarely neutral but instead reinforced the prevailing ideologies of their time. The work has been received by the academic community as a significant contribution to the study of game history, noted for its meticulous research into the rhetoric of empire that continues to influence modern game development.

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