Repairing Play
A Black Phenomenology
$78.20
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2023
Summary
A provocative study that reconsiders our notion of play—and how its deceptively wholesome image has harmed and erased people of color.
Contemporary theorists present play as something wholly constructive and positive. But this broken definition is drawn from a White European philosophical tradition that ignores the fact that play can, and often does, hurt. In fact, this narrow understanding of play has been complicit in the systemic erasure of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262545273 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262545276 |
| Author: | Aaron Trammell |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Playful Thinking |
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Critics Review
“Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology highlights the long-overdue need to explore how the American conceptualization of play becomes romanticized through a White racial lens. As the title suggests, author Aaron Trammell argues that our understanding of play is awed, incomplete, and even harmful.”
—American Journal of Play
“Repairing Play may inspire other scholars interested in research on sports to revisit conventional definitions that erase or further marginalize the experiences of Black people and others in America and in other contexts.”
—International Journal for Sport and Religion
Aaron Trammell
Aaron Trammell is Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and Multimedia Editor of the journal Sounding Out!
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