ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the ways that feminist war games disrupt the procedural biases played out through the mechanics and narrative of traditional war games. Eschewing the masculine power fantasy, This War of Mine shifts its experience of war to the margins of the battlefield. House examines how the game’s ludo-stylistics invert the emotional suppression of the classic Kriegs-Spiel to reframe popular conceptions of war by focusing on the lives of civilians in a war-torn city and engendering empathy for those Judith Butler calls ‘ungrievables’. Through this example, House argues that feminist war games can enable players to envision war from the margins and empower them to imagine a world without it.
