Hotel Mexico : Dwelling on the '68 Movement

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flaherty

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2016

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

ISBN:

9780520422704

0520422708

OCLC:

953632841