Larp Politics - Systems, Theory, and Gender in Action
Politics have always gone hand in hand with larp. Whether games portray politics, or internal politics have defined the deep structures of larps, there have always been games that have discussed and been shaped by political thoughts and realities. The political Solmubook will contain articles that discuss theories, instances, and the implementation of interfaces between politics and games.
Contents
Articles
- Introduction by Kaisa Kangas
The Game
- “These but the trappings and the suits of woe” by Syksy Räsänen
- Larp-poem 1905 by Erik Pihl
- A Trilogy of Power and Oppression by Aladino Amantini, Matteo Miceli, Andrea Capone, and Annalisa Corbo
- Larping to Resist by Lorenzo Trenti
- Saving the Baltic Sea with Larp by Juhana Pettersson
Systems & Change
- Refugees Are Welcome by Daniel Steinbach
- Playing Stress, Guilt and Identity - This Ain't Politics, This Is Syria by Larson Kasper and Tina Leipoldt
- Educational Larps for Political Studies by Vladimir Servetnik and Alexey Fedoseev
- Infrastructural Games and Societal Play by Eleanor Saitta
- Larp as a Tool by Jugular Malloy
Theory: Politics & Larp
- Rehearsing Difference by Moyra Turkington
- Where Can Political Larp Go? by Tanja Lehto
- Larp as a Form of Political Action: by Teemu Rantanen
- Political Larps, or Larps About Politics? by J. Tuomas Harviainen
- Playing at Work by Katherine Castiello Jones, Sanna Koulu, and Evan Torner
Gender
- Not a Real Man? by Neko Koski
- My Body Is Political by Shoshana Kessock
- Expression of Feminism in Larp by Muriel Algayres
- Gender and Historical Larps by Minna Heimola and Mikko Heimola
- Play the Gay Away by Erik Winther Paisley
