... This roundtable of Black queer anthropologists, featuring Lyndon Gill, Marshall Green, Nikki Lane, and Kwame Otu in conversation with Shaka McGlotten, is oriented around several themes: ethnography, art, and activism; the abolitionist potentials in their coming together; the dislocation of Black...

... This chapter turns to an analysis of transcolonial roundtables. This chapter demonstrates the ways in which the roundtable effects a staged intimacy and informality that are coupled with authority (the joint appearance of well-known figures) even as colonizer-colonized encounters remain anxiety...

... The first of five roundtables of four game makers each, this roundtable seeks to understand the textured, global understandings of race depicted in games. The eclectic roundtable features Minh Le, the creator of Counter-Strike ; the games writer Matthew Seiji Burns; the fighting game champion...

... This roundtable opens part 5 of the collection, “Mobilizing Machines,” by exploring how Asia and America are separated in games through implicit political and historical narratives rooted in militarism, tech, and artistry. The roundtable designers discuss the social and political impacts...

... This roundtable opens part 2 of the collection, “Playable Bodies,” by following the first section of theoretical framing with a focus on queered experiences of bodies in video games, game making, and the processes of manufacture. The roundtable features the game makers Naomi Clark (creator...

... This roundtable begins part 3 of the collection, “Localizing Empire,” by expanding on the issues of the body from the previous section, to consider space and regional histories. The roundtable features a conversation among designers who work and/or focus on “non-American” contexts: Joe Yuzhou Xu...

...Gaming Orientalism The first of five roundtables of four game makers each, this roundtable seeks to understand the textured, global understandings of race depicted in games. The eclectic roundtable features Minh Le, the creator of Counter-Strike ; the games writer Matthew Seiji Burns...

...Mobilizing Machines This roundtable opens part 5 of the collection, “Mobilizing Machines,” by exploring how Asia and America are separated in games through implicit political and historical narratives rooted in militarism, tech, and artistry. The roundtable designers discuss the social...

... In this roundtable discussion, three authors discuss their efforts to research, educate, advocate, and organize around and against the U.S. prison nation, with a significant emphasis on naming how race, gender, and sexuality intersect with criminalization. In particular, this discussion examines...

...Playable Bodies This roundtable opens part 2 of the collection, “Playable Bodies,” by following the first section of theoretical framing with a focus on queered experiences of bodies in video games, game making, and the processes of manufacture. The roundtable features the game makers Naomi...

...Localizing Empire This roundtable begins part 3 of the collection, “Localizing Empire,” by expanding on the issues of the body from the previous section, to consider space and regional histories. The roundtable features a conversation among designers who work and/or focus on “non-American...

... This roundtable opens part 4 of the collection, “Inhabiting the Asiatic,” which responds to many of the previous sections’ critiques by considering how players and game makers inhabit Asiatic medias to transform, parody, and queer the traditional and imperial conventions of games and dominant...

...Sex Work and the Trouble with Trafficking In this roundtable discussion, three authors discuss their efforts to research, educate, advocate, and organize around and against the U.S. prison nation, with a significant emphasis on naming how race, gender, and sexuality intersect...

...Inhabiting the Asiatic This roundtable opens part 4 of the collection, “Inhabiting the Asiatic,” which responds to many of the previous sections’ critiques by considering how players and game makers inhabit Asiatic medias to transform, parody, and queer the traditional and imperial...

... about victimization, age, and sexuality, as well as the intersections of race and criminal (in)justice have led progressives to exclude sex offenders from their purview. sex offender progressive politics sex crime LGBT feminism In this roundtable discussion, three authors discuss...

...Departures<subtitle>Reworlding Queer Anthropology</subtitle> This roundtable of Black queer anthropologists, featuring Lyndon Gill, Marshall Green, Nikki Lane, and Kwame Otu in conversation with Shaka McGlotten, is oriented around several themes: ethnography, art, and activism...