From the front line to the living room and back again : pedagogical pleasure in board game play
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Through an exploration of the pleasure derived from playing Eurogames, a subset of board games that gained popularity in the mid to late 20th century in the geographic West, gaming is a performative act that not only relies upon pedagogical and ideological structures of meaning-making, which influences the way players see and interact with the world around them. Ideologies configure the behaviors of those within and under it, influencing how one constructs their ideas and values. Through an analysis of mechanical and narrative components of the game themselves as well as the theoretical frameworks that surround critical pedagogy, pleasure activism, and ideological value formation, play is essential to understanding the self, the Other, and the world, but within a space dedicated to exploration rather than outcome (i.e. a platform such as Eurogames). Play is often relegated to spaces outside of what the West considers "work" and due to this designation, game play allows people to explore the world around them without the larger ideological frameworks at work outside of the game. Eurogames, through an exploration of how they work upon the psyche and sociality of players, participate in a process where players can instill justice and liberation into the things that we enjoy, the things they find pleasure in. Pleasure, in this sense, is also an activist framework in which players have the potential to create liberatory spaces through an engagement with games, but only within the limitations that both the game and the social world around the game provide. Ultimately, board games, particularly Eurogames, can be analyzed through the lens of pedagogical pleasure in play to explore the ways that these cultural materials participate in performances of social justice, community-building, and equity-making.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Conley, Danielle Judy |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Robinson, Aileen |
| Thesis advisor | Robinson, Aileen |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Looser, Diana |
| Thesis advisor | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Degree committee member | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Degree committee member | Looser, Diana |
| Degree committee member | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Danielle Conley. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bx705sj2644 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Danielle Judy Conley
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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