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Call for Papers | “Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour”, International Conference | University of Bucharest, Romania, March 19–21, 2026. Call ends September 10, 2025
The proposed sixth installment of the international Playing the Field conference series focuses on the multifaceted relationship between video games and labour. Such a topic is particularly relevant today given the aggravating contradictions inherent to neoliberal capitalism on a global scale, as well as a tendency in video game cultural studies towards relegating the economic dimension of video games to discussions of class identity representations. To counterbalance the hyperfocus on representation in game studies, we encourage a dialectic materialist approach.
