“Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project

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Autor(a) principal: de Paula, Bruno
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Contracampo
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/contracampo/article/view/50267
Resumo: 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.
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title “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
spellingShingle “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
de Paula, Bruno
zeebo
history of videogames
Global South
platform
piracy
title_short “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
title_full “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
title_fullStr “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
title_full_unstemmed “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
title_sort “Emergent countries play, too!”: The Zeebo console as a (partial) decolonial project
author de Paula, Bruno
author_facet de Paula, Bruno
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv de Paula, Bruno
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv zeebo
history of videogames
Global South
platform
piracy
topic zeebo
history of videogames
Global South
platform
piracy
description 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.
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