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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: George F. FlahertyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780520291065ISBN 10: 0520291069 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 16 August 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsIn this skillful work of interdisciplinary rigor Hotel Mexico is the first study to situate the '68 movement within urban culture and space by using the methodologies of collective memory and cultural studies. ... In this refreshing study, Flaherty employs an impressive array of sources to weave a deeply more complex narrative of 1960s Mexico than academics tend to tell in similar books. * Planning Perspectives * In this skillful work of interdisciplinary rigor Hotel Mexico is the first study to situate the '68 movement within urban culture and space by using the methodologies of collective memory and cultural studies. ... In this refreshing study, Flaherty employs an impressive array of sources to weave a deeply more complex narrative of 1960s Mexico than academics tend to tell in similar books. --Planning Perspectives Author InformationGeorge F. Flaherty is Assistant Professor of Latin American and U.S. Latino Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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