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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flaherty, George F., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

Olympics--Political aspects.

Olympics.

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

Student movements.

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

Public spaces.

Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968.

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

Olympic Games.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored 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. Just ten days before the Olympics began, nearly three hundred student protestors were massacred by the military in a plaza at the core of a new public housing complex. In spite of institutional denial and censorship, 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 F. Flaherty explores how urban spaces-material but also literary, photographic, and cinematic-became an archive of 1968, providing a framework for de facto modes of justice for years to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. City of Palaces

2. Revenge of Dust

3. Urban Logistics and Kinetic Environments

4. Gestures of Hospitality

5. Satellites

6. Mobilization and Mediation

7. Dwellings

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-520-96493-4

OCLC:

953632841