In their book Rules of Play (2003), authors Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman refer to video games as having the potential to provide what they call ‘transformative cultural play.’ In this type of play, video games become vehicles of culture, in which there is an exchange of meanings between the game, the player, and culture at large. […]
Edenic getaways and utopian elsewheres, or dystopian spaces of exile and segregation; marginalized, exploited, self-referential appendages of nations, but also fertile spaces of multicultural exchanges, and microcosms of pluralism; real destinations or existential metaphors Islands evoke a vast array of topoi, conditions, and ideologies which have been abundantly depicted, shaped, and problematized by literature, cinema,
On October 24, 2019, The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, Humanities, and Languages, and Center for Critical Race Studies is hosting a Symposium commemorating 400 Years of African American Life and History. This year, 2019, marks the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first documented Africans to
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As Charlotte Cooper (2016) has written in her book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, fat activism in its many forms showcases the “vitality of embodied community knowledge” and “is grounded in a long-term struggle for social change” (HammerOn Press, p.7). This special issue of Fat Studies on Fat Activism seeks to offer a fresh, interdisciplinary look at fat activism-in-flux, building
Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi (1869-1948) is an international figure best known for leading resistance to the British Empire in India, achieving the independence of India through his method of Satyagraha, or nonviolent resistance. Born in Gujarat in western India, educated in law in London, developing his signature technique of nonviolent resistance in South Africa, and