Along the Lines of the Occupation

Bibliographic Data

ID3077451
AuthorsFabio Cristiano (0000-0002-0951-9648, Lund University, corresponding author), Emilio Distretti (0000-0003-4924-8536, Al-Quds University)
Year2017
Volume3
Issue1
Pages130-143
Publication date2017-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arcs.2017.030111
OpenAlexW2755441274
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited22

Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration, Niantic's location-based video game Pokémon Go (PG) has been praised for allowing players to foster their understanding and relationship to surrounding spaces. However, in contexts where space and movement are objects of conflicting narratives and restrictive policies on mobility, playing relies on the creation of partial imaginaries and limits to the exploratory experience. Departing from avant-garde conceptualizations of walking, this article explores the imaginary that PG creates in occupied East Jerusalem. Based on observations collected in various gaming sessions along the Green Line, it analyzes how PG's virtual representation of Jerusalem legitimizes a status quo of separation and segregation. In so doing, this article argues that, instead of enabling an experience of augmented reality for its users, playing PG in East Jerusalem produces a diminished one

Aesthetics · Art · Augmented reality · Human–computer interaction · Literature · Multimedia · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Status quo · The Imaginary · Video game · Virtual reality · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology · Spatial and Cultural Studies

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