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Book SynopsisIn 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. In this study of the afterlives of the '68 Movement, the author 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.
Trade Review"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 *
"Flaherty understands students’ 'spatiopolitical imaginations' as offering counterhegemonic visions of their rights to the city (136).
Hotel Mexico rightly argues that urban space was a constant site of political struggle." * Latin American Research Review *
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 Index
