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Mexico City's Olympic Games

Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968

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Authors:
  1. Axel Elías

    1. Mexico City, Mexico

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  • Uses the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City as a lens to look at five years of nation-building projects
  • Highlights the multiplicity of voices behind these nation-building exercises
  • Takes a bottom-up approach to look at the citizenry’s experiences of the 1968 Olympic Games

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics (PASSP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. A Bottom-up Approach to Sports and Nation Building in Mexico

    • Axel Elías
    Pages 1-56

  3. ‘The Exact Route to Achieving Success’: International Politics and Mexican State Formation During the Cold War

    • Axel Elías
    Pages 57-102

  4. ‘We Do Not Want Olympics, We Want Revolution’: The Student Movement and the XIX Olympiad, July–October 1968

    • Axel Elías
    Pages 103-144

  5. ‘Everything Is Possible in Peace’: State Repression, Nationalism and Politics of Silence, 2–12 October 1968

    • Axel Elías
    Pages 145-172

  6. ‘What a Marvellous People and What a Fabulous Party’: The Cultural Politics of Emotions During the XIX Olympic Games, 12–27 October 1968

    • Axel Elías
    Pages 173-202

  7. The Political Consequences of the XIX Olympiad

    • Axel Elías
    Pages 203-238

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-272
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About this book

This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building 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 citizenry’s experiences of the 1968 Olympic Games, both the shared nationalistic values and the areas of conflict.   

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mexico City, Mexico

    Axel Elías

About the author

Axel Elías is a historian of nation building. He has studied at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Instituto Mora in Mexico, and completed his PhD at King’s College London, UK. His interests are found in everyday forms of nation building. He has worked on the intersections of sport and performativity of nationhood, as well as gastronationalism and migration.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mexico City's Olympic Games

  • Book Subtitle: Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968

  • Authors: Axel Elías

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74111-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74110-5Published: 27 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74113-6Published: 28 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74111-2Published: 25 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2365-998X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-9998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 272

  • Topics: Latin American History, Sport Science , Cultural History

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