Operation Corporate by Martin Middlebrook
Transnational Play 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. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their mobile phones, and through urban playful art in Latin America. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on the global developers who make games, as well as the players who consume games, 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 Pok mon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and game studies, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.Martin Middlebrook's previous publications, including The First Day on the Somme, Kaiser's Battle, The Peenemünde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook), and The Nuremberg Raid 30-31st March 1944 (all reissued and in print with Pen and Sword), deal with significant turning points in the two world wars. Martin Middlebrook lives near Boston, Lincolnshire, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670802234 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670802239 |
| Title | Operation Corporate |
| Author | Martin Middlebrook |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1985-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
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