Live Chat | Webinar: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Channel: Open Library of Humanities
Date: 2023-02-16

The Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies OLH Special Collection is a freely accessible curated collection of scholarly articles. Launched in 2018 as a special edition of the Open Library of Humanities journal, the collection brings questions of Postcolonialism to the forefront of Games Studies, featuring articles that provide critical analysis of colonial representations in games and challenge notions of colonial power studies. Two years after its publication, the collection has been viewed over 14,000 times, and offers a key contribution to contemporary scholarship on Game Studies and Postcolonialism.

This live chat held in June 2020 with the collection’s guest editors, Dr Souvik Mukherjee and Dr Emil Lundedal Hammar, is hosted by Dr Rose Harris-Birtill from the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). The live chat is both a celebration of the special collection and the growing relationship between Games Studies scholars and the OLH, and a reflection on how games contribute to our cultural, social and aesthetic experiences in the world around us.