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Decolonizing Games and Games for Decolonization Torner, Evan

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In this talk, Evan Torner will speak of the intersection of board games and decolonization initiatives and his recent course on decolonizing board game cultures. Applying the fundamentals of decolonial theory to critique board games as a medium, he will discuss past design strategies of addressing colonial logics in board games, and lay the groundwork for future decolonial board game design.

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Decolonizing Games and Games for Decolonization
Creator
Torner, Evan
Contributor
University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Date Issued
2024-03-22
Description
In this talk, Evan Torner will speak of the intersection of board games and decolonization initiatives and his recent course on decolonizing board game cultures. Applying the fundamentals of decolonial theory to critique board games as a medium, he will discuss past design strategies of addressing colonial logics in board games, and lay the groundwork for future decolonial board game design.
Type
Moving Image; Sound
Language
eng
Series
Ziegler lecture series
Date Available
2025-03-27
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0448256
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90537
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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