Transnational Play

This book approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World.

Anne-Marie Schleiner is engaged in gaming and media culture in a variety of roles as a critic, theorist, activist, artist, and designer. She has exhibited in international galleries, museums and festivals. Documentation of her performative culture work is available on the Video Data Bank. She holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has taught at universities in the United States, Mexico, and Singapore, and is a Lecturer in Design at the University of California, Davis.

Introduction: Transnational Play,Section One: Reorienting Player Geographies, Chapter 1: Tilting the Axis of Global Play: From East/West to South/North, Chapter 2: Venues for Ludoliteracy: Arcades, Game Cafes, and Street Pirates, Chapter 3: The Free-to-play Time of Women in Brazil: Localized Mobile and Casual Games,Section Two: Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border, Chapter 4: Ludic Recycling in Latin American Art: From Remixing the City to Sampling Nature, Chapter 5: The Geopolitics of Pokémon Go: Navigating Bordering Cities with a Mobile Augmented Reality Game,Section Three: From Global to Local Game Development, Chapter 6: The Absence of the Oppressor: Games for Change and Californian Happiness Engineers, Chapter 7: Game Studios in Southeast Asia: Outsourced to Culturally Customized Games, Conclusion: Play Privilege, Bibliography, Index.