Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: Gaming Practices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in Latin America
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: To analyze how video game culture is shaped and engages with questions of power, Shaw (2010) advocates for the theoretical foundation of cultural studies.This tradition, with its extensive critical examination of cultural products and practices and their connection to the social and political order, has provided critical approaches within Game Studies a key framework for examining how video games, players, and gaming practices participate in strategies of domination and resistance, ideological conflicts, and processes of identification and subjectification.This work adopts Shaw's premise as a central point of departure and expands it through an epistemology situated in the Global South.Drawing from foundational Latin American cultural studies theorists such as Paulo Freire (2015 [1968]), Jesús
Author: Marco Jaramillo
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Language: English
Topic: Digital Games and Media
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4411973748