"I Can be Who I Am When I Play Tekken 7": E-sports Women Participants from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Issue 8 (December 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "I Can be Who I Am When I Play Tekken 7": E-sports Women Participants from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Issue 8 (December 2021)
- Main Title:
- "I Can be Who I Am When I Play Tekken 7": E-sports Women Participants from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Authors:
- Hussain, Umer
Yu, Bo
Cunningham, George B.
Bennett, Gregg - Abstract:
- Extant research on e-sports has focused on the growth and value of the phenomenon, fandom, and participant experiences. However, there is a paucity of e-sports scholarship detailing women's experiences from marginalized communities living in various conservative Muslim countries. This shortage of literature remains despite different radical Islamic groups' consistent demand for banning several online video games and the Muslim youth's resistance to these calls. This study aimed to understand the motives and lived experiences of Muslim women e-sports participants from Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The authors collected data via observations of online video games and in-depth interviews. The study participants revealed that they use e-sports as a vehicle for an oppositional agency and personal freedom from the patriarchal system. The findings also suggest that participants are facing systematic marginalization and grave intrusion of post-colonization. The study contributes to the limited scholarship concerning Indian subcontinent Muslim women's e-sports participation.
- Is Part Of:
- Games and culture. Volume 16:Issue 8(2021)
- Journal:
- Games and culture
- Issue:
- Volume 16:Issue 8(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 16, Issue 8 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 8
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0016-0008-0000
- Page Start:
- 978
- Page End:
- 1000
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12
- Subjects:
- Muslim women -- Indian subcontinent -- e-sports -- masculine hegemony -- existential phenomenology
Games -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Video games -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Computer games -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Interactive multimedia -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
303.4834 - Journal URLs:
- http://gac.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gac ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/15554120211005360 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1555-4120
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- Legaldeposit
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