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Axel Elías - Mexico City's Olympic Games, Inbunden

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Mexico City's Olympic Games

Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968

Av Axel Elías

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics

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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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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.

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“This book provides important information regarding the 1968 Olympic Games and their significance to Mexican history. Therefore, it will be of interest to any scholar studying the intersection of culture and politics. It also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning field of global sixties studies, as it deals with unique global-local dynamics in one of the most crucial years of the twentieth century.” (Shunsuke Matsuo, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 104 (4), November, 2024)

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