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Indigenomicon

By Byrd, Jodi A.

Indigenomicon

By Byrd, Jodi A.

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Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Byrd theorizes "the image of the law of the Indigenous" as structuring dispossession in games including Assassin's Creed, Animal Crossing, BioShock Infinite, and Demon Souls. They demonstrate how games and play might reveal histories of slavery, genocide, and theft of Indigenous lands even as their structures obscure Indigenous spatial and embodied practices that prioritize relationships with land, water, plants, and spirits. With ground and relationality defined as key concepts, Byrd centers Indigenous visions of dystopias to reveal how game spaces encode settler structures of governance even as the design of games might yet provide vital modes of resistance to Indigenous erasure.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
318
Release Date:
2025-11-11
Publication Date:
2025-11-11
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478032642
ISBN13:
9781478032649
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
685 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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