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Hanine El Mir
Thesis supervisor: Mia Consalvo
Hanine El Mir is a PhD student looking at food accessibility within fishing mini-games and farming simulators.
As a game designer, Hanine works for fun and plays for a living. She holds an MA in Social & Cultural Anthropology from Concordia University, a BA in English Literature and a BA in Media/Communications, with two minors in Film/Visual Studies and Arabic Language, from the American University of Beirut.
Her interest in food stability and accessibility shapes her life’s activities while sitting on the boards of the People’s Potato and the Concordia Food Coalition. Hanine is also a member of the mLab and TAG - the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre, as well as a coordinator of Pixelles’ Make Games Program.
In her free time, Hanine tends to a community garden, cooks at a vegan solidarity kitchen, and makes games which you can find here: https://arnabitakhdar.itch.io/
Publications:
Custodio, A., El Mir, H., & Iantorno, M. (2024). The Sun Is in Your Hand(held): mediating solar imaginaries and technological ambivalence. Digital Creativity, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2024.2417297
Hoebanx, P., French, M., & El Mir, H. (2024). (Un) Lucky Designs?: What Game Jams Can Contribute to Critical Gambling Studies. Critical Gambling Studies, 5(1), 76-83.
Hoebanx, P., & El Mir, H. (2024). GameBling Game Jam 2.0: The Writing Workshop. Critical Gambling Studies.
Boucher, I., Custodio, A., El Mir, H., Frenzel, J., & Marinov, R. (2024). Hopeful and Just Futures Across Scales: Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age/Solar Media Collective, Concordia University, Tio’tia: Ke (Montréal), Canada, May 11, 2023. Utopian Studies, 35(1), 304-314.
Makki, M., Mawla, M., Khatib, I., El Mir, H., & Kaddoura, S. (2018). Lessons Learned in the Making of a Feminist Bloc. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 14(3), 363-367.
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