Hotel Mexico : dwelling on the '68 Movement / George F. Flaherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flaherty, George F., 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic Games--(19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico).

Olympic Games.

Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968.

Public spaces--Social aspects--Mexico--Mexico City.

Public spaces.

Student movements--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century.

Student movements.

Olympics--Political aspects.

Olympics.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D--Social aspects--Mexico--Mexico City.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

Social aspects.

History.

Public spaces--Social aspects.

Mexico.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Physical Description:

xv, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Summary:

"In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The government built spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects in Mexico City symbolic of the country's rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement led by students emerged in the city. Throughout the summer, the '68 Movement staged protests underscoring a widespread sense of political disenfranchisement: rather than citizens, they were mere "guests" of the state. Just ten days before the Olympics began, nearly 300 student protestors were massacred by the military in a plaza at the core of a new public housing complex. In spite of institutional denial, censorship, and impunity, the 1968 massacre remains a touchstone in contemporary Mexican culture thanks to the public memory work of survivors and Mexico's leftist intelligentsia. In this highly original study of the afterlives of the '68 Movement, George Flaherty explores how urban spaces--material but also literary and cinematic--became an archive of 1968, providing a framework for de facto modes of justice for years to come"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

City of palaces

Revenge of dust

Urban logistics and kinetic environments

Gestures of hospitality

Satellites

Mobilization and mediation

Dwellings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520291072

0520291077

9780520291065

0520291069

OCLC:

939245057