1. Psychogeography, class wargames and history Dr Alex Bridger University of Huddersfield

2. Introduction and aims of session O Qualitative psychology and psychogeography O What led to my interest in war-gaming history O War-gaming and community participatory work

3. Qualitative psychology and psychogeography O Ontology, context, methods and data O Social-environmental, critical and community psychologies O Psychogeographical psychology

4. What led to my interest in war-gaming O Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett’s work – class wargames collective O Gaming as a metaphor to explore social relations in contemporary capitalism O Reenacting past political struggles and considering alternatives to the order of things O And it can be fun!

5. War gaming history O Game of War video – click to launch http://www.classwargames.net/ O Board game as ‘a lecture in class warfare’ (Barbrook and Tompsett, 2009: 38) O Playing at being a little Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin in order not to be come like Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin!

6. Debord’s reflections O ‘I have studied the logic of war. Moreover I succeeded a long time ago, in presenting the basics of its movements as a board game: the forces of contention and the contradictory necessities imposed on the operations of each of the two parties. I have played the Game of War and, in the often difficult conduct of my life, I have utilised lessons from it…On the question of whether I have made good use of such lessons, I will leave others to decide’ (Debord, 1989).

7. Participatory work O Hoot community work, i.e. dice-walking, creating artistic maps of everyday lived in spaces, exhibition and written work (Emmanouil, Bridger and Lawthom) O ‘’group activity facilitates the self-realisation of each individual’ (Vaniegem, 1968: 198) O Personal and social changes

8. Any comments/questions? O Email: Email: a.j.bridger@hud.ac.uk O Staff webpage: https://www.hud.ac.uk/ourstaff/profile/index.php?staffuid=s humajb O Facebook group: Huddersfield Psychogeographical Network O Blog: https://notanotherpsychogeographyblog.wordpress.com