PRODUCTIVE PLAY: BEYOND BINARIES

The Promise of Play: A New Approach to Productive Play

Games are woven into webs of cultural meaning, social connection, politics, and economic change. This article builds on previous work in cultural, new media, and game studies to introduce a new approach to productive play, the promise of play. This approach analyzes games as sites of cultural production in times of increased transnational mediation and speaks to the formation of identity across...

The Promise of Play: A New Approach towards Productive Play

Games are woven into webs of cultural meaning, social connection, politics, and economic change. This paper builds on previous work in cultural, new media and game studies to introduce a new approach to productive play, the promise of play. This approach analyzes games as sites of cultural production in times of increased transnational mediation and speaks to the formation of identity across pl...

Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Play

Beyond binaries in motherhood research

Alternative modes of inquiry in qualitative research, in particular the experiments in genre, voice, narrative and interpretation that have so enlivened recent debates in ethnography and the social sciences, were notably absent. What is puzzling about this lack is that the highly contested and ideological domain of motherhood and the family is just the kind of research area to richly benefit fr...

Sex and Gender Beyond the Binaries

Research variables—“sex” polarized as “females” and “males,” “sexuality” polarized as “homosexuals” and “heterosexuals,” and “gender” polarized as “women” and “men”—reflect unnuanced series that conventionalize bodies, sexuality, and social location. Such research designs cannot include the experiences of hermaphrodites, pseudohermaphrodites, transsexuals, transvestites, bisexuals, third gender...