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Hotel Mexico - Dwelling on the '68 Movement (Hardcover)
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Hotel Mexico - Dwelling on the '68 Movement (Hardcover)
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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.
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