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SUMMARY:The Indian Video Gaming Parlour:  Embodiment\, Field and Physical
  Space
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DESCRIPTION:In my research I set out to analyse the subjective game play 
 experience outside of a Western context focusing on how player experienc
 e is framed through different cultural and social conditions in India.  
 My overarching argument is that the practice of video gaming in India is
  becoming\, to a certain extent\, more routinized and part of the everyd
 ay. Due to its newness\, however\, this transformation from the scarce t
 o the commonplace is still in process.  Drawing upon ethnographic data c
 ollected in Chandigarh India\, I interpret how this process is played ou
 t in the gaming spaces\, and particularly in video gaming parlours.  Fun
 damentally\, I am concerned with how Indian actors contextually positon 
 the new practice of video gaming\, and with how this has led to establis
 hing a practice with its own field-specific habitus. \n\nThrough the con
 cept of distinction\, I examine the effects of video games as institutio
 ns which create and reproduce social structures in what Bourdieu calls f
 ields as a competitive site where there is a struggle for power between 
 the dominant and subordinate classes.  Gaming parlours in India are cons
 ciously created and restricted in an attempt to carve a space for the In
 dian gamer. Through an examination of the process by which high capital 
 entrepreneurial actors create a physical space for a field\, I consider 
 the creation of the Indian gaming parlour Indulgence and how various cho
 ices in its location and its material arrangement are consciously create
 d to attract and direct actors.  Comparative data from my secondary Manc
 hester field site\, Kyoto Lounge\, illustrates how while the physical sp
 aces contain similar fields\, they are glocalised very differently for l
 ocal tastes and conventions.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Board Room\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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