De Paula, B;
(2021)
“Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project.
Revista Contracampo
, 40
(2)
10.22409/contracampo.v40i2.5026.
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Abstract
The present paper discusses questions related to the histories of videogames, more specifically in how we approach videogames in Global South. By using Zeebo, a Brazilian console produced in the late 2000s as an epistemic tool, I discuss the limitations of universalist, mainstream-centric epistemological models for exploring videogames as cultural phenomena. By investigating Zeebo’s discourses about piracy and players in the Global South, I argue that this platform can be seen as a partial decolonial project, destabilising conventional historical narratives about South-North relationships in videogames, but refraining from challenging a mainstream, Global North oriented epistemology. This exploratory work, therefore, elaborates on how a decolonial project of history of videogames, one that is more epistemically just to Global South, could be sought.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.22409/contracampo.v40i2.5026 |
Publisher version: | https://periodicos.uff.br/contracampo/article/view... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright (c) 2021 Bruno de Paula. Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
Keywords: | zeebo, history of videogames, Global South, platform, piracy |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133997 |
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