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Articles

What is Esports History a History Of?

An Introduction to the Special Issue

William Clyde Partin III, Iris Bull
Golden Ticket

Money Games at the Dota 2 International Championship in China

Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux
Out of the Cafe and into the Arena

Esports Spaces and Neoliberalization in Turkey

Onder Can, Maxwell Foxman
Kinaesthetic Masculinity and the Prehistory of Esports

Nick Taylor
Made in China

Gold Farming as Alternative History of Esports

Tara Fickle

Interviews

Translation is Labor, and Other Contradictions

An Interview with Gatamchun

Iris Bull
The Origins of Esports Scholarship

A Group Interview

William Clyde Partin, III, Matt Jungsuk Howard

Materials

We Gamin’ Basketball

Black Intersectional Approaches to Sports and Gaming

Javon Ke'Andre Goard, Stephanie Jones, Jaymon Ortega, Kishonna L Gray

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