How Long to Read Playing Oppression

How Long Does it Take to Read Playing Oppression?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Playing Oppression by Mary Flanagan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the incisive frameworks of postcolonial theory to a broad historical survey of board games to show how these seemingly benign entertainments reinforce the logic of imperialism. Through this lens, the commercialized version of Snakes and Ladders takes shape as the British Empire’s distortion of Gyan Chaupar (an Indian game of spiritual knowledge), and early twentieth-century “trading games” that fêted French colonialism are exposed for how they conveniently sanitized its brutality while also relying on crudely racist imagery. These games’ most explicitly abhorrent features may no longer be visible, but their legacy still lingers in the contemporary Eurogame tendency to exalt (and incentivize) cycles of exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination. An essential addition to any player’s bookshelf, Playing Oppression deftly analyzes this insidious violence and proposes a path forward with board games that challenge colonialist thinking and embrace a much broader cultural imagination.

How long is Playing Oppression?

Playing Oppression by Mary Flanagan is 237 pages long, and a total of 60,909 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Playing Oppression Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 32 minutes to read Playing Oppression aloud.

What Reading Level is Playing Oppression?

Playing Oppression is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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