Towards a Southern Epistemology in Game Studies: GamingPractices, Ideological Struggle, and Common Sense in LatinAmerica

To analyze how video game culture is shaped and engages with questions of power, Shaw (2010) advocates for the theoretical foundation of cultural studies.This tradition, with its extensive critical examination of cultural products and practices and their connection to the social and political order, has provided critical approaches within Game Studies a key framework for examining how video games, players, and gaming practices participate in strategies of domination and resistance, ideological conflicts, and processes of identification and subjectification.This work adopts Shaw's premise as a central point of departure and expands it through an epistemology situated in the Global South.