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Jarvis, Lee 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4149-7135 and Robinson, Nick
(2021)
War, time and military videogames: Heterogeneities and critical potential.
Critical Military Studies, 7 (2).
pp. 192-211.
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Abstract
This article contributes to a small, but growing, scholarship on military videogames. Focusing, specifically, on diverse manifestations of temporality within these games, it demonstrates that this genre is both more diverse, and has greater critical potential, than is often recognised. The article begins with a brief overview of contemporary scholarship on temporality, war and global politics. A second section then identifies three different ways in which temporality features in military videogames: (i) as a horizon, or historical background, against which they are produced and consumed; (ii) as a dramatic setting around which games and their narratives are structured; and, (iii) as duration – which may be accelerated or decelerated – experienced by those playing these games. These three instantiations of time are then investigated via a new typology of military videogames, ordered around: mainstream military shooters, critical military shooters, critical procedural military games, and civilian-centred military games. This typology enables us, first, to show the centrality of temporal assumptions, arguments and experiences to the ways in which war is made meaningful across these games. And, second, to demonstrate the significance of distinct productions and experiences of temporality for the critical potentiality thereof.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | global politics,militarism,military videogames,temporality,time,videogames,war,history,social sciences (miscellaneous),sociology and political science,political science and international relations,management science and operations research,law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1202 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Critical Global Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2019 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2024 02:58 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69641 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23337486.2019.1573014 |
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