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Explorer les confins de la galaxie, des donjons sinistres ou des pays enchantés, vivre au temps des croisades ou rejouer l’issue de la guerre froide, bâtir des villes ou des empires millénaires… au point d’en oublier parfois sa famille, la fatigue ou la faim. Tout jeu vidéo est une invitation au voyage. Les jeux vidéo sont des univers dans lesquels les joueurs plongent, s’immergent, voire s’enferment, pour vivre des aventures hors du temps et de l’espace quotidiens. Cette divergence, cette annulation, voire cette inversion du temps s’accompagnent du déploiement d’un espace de l’autre côté de l’écran. Comment cet espace-temps vidéoludique s’articule avec l’espace-temps du quotidien ? Et quelles sont les spatialités et les temporalités que les jeux vidéo déploient ? Cet ouvrage fait converger autour de ces questions les réflexions d’auteurs de diverses sciences humaines et sociales, de la géographie aux études littéraires en passant par l’anthropologie et la philosophie.

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This book focuses on the almost entirely neglected treatment of empire and colonialism in videogames. From its inception in the nineties, Game Studies has kept away from these issues despite the early popularity of videogame franchises such as Civilization and Age of Empire. This book examines the complex ways in which some videogames construct conceptions of spatiality, political systems, ethics and society that are often deeply imbued with colonialism. Moving beyond questions pertaining to European and American gaming cultures, this book addresses issues that relate to a global audience – including, especially, the millions who play videogames in the formerly colonised countries, seeking to make a timely intervention by creating a larger awareness of global cultural issues in videogame research. Addressing a major gap in Game Studies research, this book will connect to discourses of post-colonial theory at large and thereby, provide another entry-point for this new medium of digital communication into larger Humanities discourses.

Video games --- Imperialism in popular culture. --- Popular culture --- Television games --- Videogames --- Electronic games --- Research. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Ethnology-Europe. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Humanities-Digital libraries. --- Imperialism. --- Literature   . --- Cultural Theory. --- European Culture. --- American Culture. --- Digital Humanities. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Humanities—Digital libraries. --- postkolonialisme --- videospill --- Imperialism in popular culture --- Video games - Research --- Imperialism --- Literature --- Literature.