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Playing Oppression
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 Chau...
Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records
The bulk of this work consists of county-by-county lists of parishes within the Province of Quebec, and all known Catholic parishes are listed to 1900. Each list gives the names of all the parishes within that county, arranged in order of formation, with the date of the oldest records for that parish. A reference letter and name after the parish indicates the compiler and publisher of a marriage register for that parish, or whether the marriages for that parish may be found in the important Loiselles Marriage Index.
Applications and Usability of Interactive TV
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV, jAUTI 2015, and the 6th Congress on Interactive Digital TV, CTVDI 2015, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in October 2015. The 10 revised full papers and two short papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected for this volume from 30 accepted submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Second Screen Applications Immersive TV; Video Consumption Development Tools; IDTV Interoperability; IDTV User Experience; Audiovisual Accessibility.
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