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Symposium: Exploring the (Multiple) Futures of World Politics Through Popular Culture

Dominant, damaged, disappeared: imagining war through videogame bodies

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Pages 515-530 | Accepted 05 Jun 2019, Published online: 25 Oct 2019

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