Mexico City's Olympic Games : citizenship and nation building, 1963-1968 / Axel Elías.
Elías, Axel, author.
2021
GV722 1968 .E45 2021
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Title
Mexico City's Olympic Games : citizenship and nation building, 1963-1968 / Axel Elías.
Author
Elías, Axel, author.
ISBN
9783030741112 (electronic bk.)
3030741117 (electronic bk.)
9783030741105
3030741109
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74111-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-74111-2 doi
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GV722 1968 .E45 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.480972/53
Summary
This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nationbuilding project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for the Olympics in Mexico and especially the year 1968 highlight the multiplicity of voices behind these exercises. Beyond the government and associated networks, the citizenry also used this mega-event to present an idea of Mexico to the world and thus reshape citizenship and nationhood. This study takes a bottom-up approach to look at the citizenrys experiences of the 1968 Olympic Games, both the shared nationalistic values and the areas of conflict.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in sport and politics.
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Mexico City's Olympic Games.
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Chapter 1. A Bottom-up approach to Sports and Nation Building in Mexico
Chapter 2: The exact route to achieving success: International Politics and Mexican State Formation during the Cold War
Chapter 3. We do not want Olympics, we want revolution: The Student Movement and the XIX Olympiad, July
October 1968
Chapter 4. Everything is possible in peace: State Repression, Nationalism and Politics of Silence, 2-12 October 1968
Chapter 5: What a marvellous people and what a fabulous party: The Cultural Politics of Emotions during the XIX Olympic Games, 12-27 October 1968
Chapter 6: The Political Consequences of the XIX Olympiad.

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