Mexico City's Olympic Games: Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968 (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics)

Acknowledgements
About this Book
Contents
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Chapter 1: A Bottom-up Approach to Sports and Nation Building in Mexico
	Research Questions and Objectives
	Mexico 1968 and the Bridging of Literatures
		Everyday Engagement in the Public Sphere: Rethinking Sport and Politics
		State Formation, Nation Building and the Modern Olympic Games
		Iterance and Performance of the Nation During the XIX Olympiad
	Research Design
	Research Structure
Chapter 2: ‘The Exact Route to Achieving Success’: International Politics and Mexican State Formation During the Cold War
	Mexican State Formation and Bidding for the Olympic Games, 1949–1962
	Cold War Sports Beyond the USA and the USSR
	Building the Mexican Olympiad, 1963–1968
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: ‘We Do Not Want Olympics, We Want Revolution’: The Student Movement and the XIX Olympiad, July–October 1968
	The 1968 Student Movement and the Olympic Games
	The Struggle Against Politics and Commercialism: Avery Brundage and the IOC
	Political Dissidence and the Mexican Government During the XIX Olympiad
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: ‘Everything Is Possible in Peace’: State Repression, Nationalism and Politics of Silence, 2–12 October 1968
	Repression and the Politics of Silence: Securing the XIX Olympic Games
	Nationalism and Sport: Mapping the Olympic Influence
	Conclusion
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
	Achieving Modernity Through Fiesta
		Performing the Nation in the Sportsgrounds
	Anger and Resistance During the Olympics
		The ‘Black Power Salute’: Communicating Resistance Through Sport
	The End of the XIX Olympiad
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: The Political Consequences of the XIX Olympiad
	Managing a Post-Olympic Destination: The ‘Mexican Miracle’ After the Olympic Games
	Mexico City’s Citizenry and Post-Olympic Political Participation
	‘The Games Must Go On’: IOC and the Olympic Games After 1968
	Conclusion
The 1968 Olympics and Its Future Areas of Research
References
	Archives
	Periodicals
	Published Primary Sources
	Bibliography
Index