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

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

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 316) : illustrations Contents City of palaces -- Revenge of dust -- Urban logistics and kinetic environments -- Gestures of hospitality -- Satellites -- Mobilization and mediation -- Dwellings 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed September 13, 2016) SUBJECT Olympic Games (19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83030545 Olympic Games fast Subject Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968. Public spaces -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City Student movements -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century Olympics -- Political aspects Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Olympics -- Political aspects Public spaces -- Social aspects Student movements Mexico -- Mexico City Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520964938 0520964934

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