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Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism
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Edited by:
Andrei Nae
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English
Published/Copyright:
2026
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This volume sets out to investigate video games’ complex entanglement with colonial legacies. By means of its methodological diversity, it offers a rich perspective on the ideological working of coloniality in video games at the intersection with multiple other power structures and economic systems. Besides Global North/South and West/East tensions, it also focuses on postcommunist contexts and their bearings on video games.
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Andrei Nae, Lecturer, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
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Dedication
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Colonial Realism in Video Games
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Shenmue II, Postcolonialism, and the Rise of Neoliberalism
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Representation Troubles of Women in Video Games: The Colonial/Modern Gender System
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Aloy, the Colonial Entrepreneur: Colonial Realism in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West
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Posthumanist Concerns in the Colonial Construction of Human Occupation of Outer Space in EVE Online
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Colonizing Space: Terra Nullius and No Man’s Sky
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In the Ashes of Earth and the Absence of Empire: The Colonial Starfield
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Anti-Balkanism in The Witcher
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Self-Exoticizing Iterations of (Post)communism in Black: The Fall
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Romania in Resident Evil Village: Colonial Power Relations in the Japanese-American-Romanian Imagological Triangle
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Hybrid Primordiality: Colonial Emplotment and Objectscapes in Assassin’s Creed
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List of Contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:
December 5, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111622750
Hardcover published on:
December 5, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111622514
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Front matter:
14
Main content:
271
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students in game studies, area studies, postcolonialism, postcommunism, and cultural studies
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