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Mexico City's Olympic Games: Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968

Mexico City's Olympic Games: Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968

Elías, Axel

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics

FictionGeneral Latin American HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3030741109
ISBN13: 9783030741105
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 27 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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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