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The Long 1968

Autor: Daniel J. Sherman , Ruud Van Dijk , Jasmine Alinder , A. Aneesh

Número de Páginas: 394

Delving into a tumultuous year's impact on art, culture, and politics, this book "illuminates the often-overlooked histories of 1968" ( The Journal of American History). From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations—and its uses today.

Dictablanda

Autor: Paul Gillingham , Benjamin T. Smith

Número de Páginas: 513

In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. A single party ruled Mexico for over seventy years, holding elections and talking about revolution while overseeing one of the world's most inequitable economies. The contributors to this groundbreaking collection revise earlier interpretations, arguing that state power was not based exclusively on hegemony, corporatism, or violence. Force was real, but it was also exercised by the ruled. It went hand-in-hand with consent, produced by resource regulation, political pragmatism, local autonomies and a popular veto. The result was a dictablanda: a soft authoritarian regime. This deliberately heterodox volume brings together social historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state. It also proposes bold, multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics. With its blend of contested elections, authoritarianism, and resistance, Mexico foreshadowed the hybrid regimes that have spread across much of the globe....

Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968

Autor: Juan J. Rojo

Número de Páginas: 205

Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the “true” history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical narratives. The initial representations of the events of 1968 were essentially limited to that of the State and that of the Consejo Nacional de Huelga (National Strike Council) and only later incorporated novels and films. Juan J. Rojo examines the manner in which films, posters, testimonios, and the Memorial del 68 expanded the boundaries of those initial articulations to a more democratic representation of key participants in the student movement of 1968.

La Academia de San Carlos en el movimiento estudiantil de 1968

Autor: Daniel Librado Luna Cárdenas

Número de Páginas: 232

This work unearths ignored and forgotten events during the student uprising of 1968 in Mexico City through 4 testimonies that represent the historic account of the events from the perspective of the university community of the Academy of San Carlos. The art school was the press and propaganda workshop of "the 68" movement. The four 4 different perceptions correspond to 4 relevant students from the generation of 65: Arnulfo Aquino, Eduardo Garduño, Jesús Martínez and Jorge Perezvega, who got involved in the 1966 student's strike that challenged traditional teaching methods with the creation of new experimental workshops that would become the learning ground of the 3 main exponents of the "rupture" generation: Vicente Rojo, Manuel Felguérez and José Luis Cuevas.

Walking a City's History

Autor: Mauricio Tenorio-trillo

Número de Páginas: 354

Take a street-level tour of Mexico’s capital and learn how one of the world’s most extraordinary cities has transformed over the centuries. Walking a City’sHistory is both a richly documented panoramic view of Mexico City’s long history and an intimate essay on its social and cultural fabric. In this book, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo uses his expertise as a historian and his talents as a storyteller to bring the city to life. Using influential moments in Mexico City’s history from the Battle of Tenochtitlán in 1521 to the present, Tenorio-Trillo illustrates the capital’s transformations against a national and global background. Walking a City’s History offers an original, unique perspective on the social, architectural, artistic, and political dimensions of Mexico City, guided by chronicles, literary works, historical accounts, and the author’s own lifetime of walks through the city.

La Gráfica del '68

Número de Páginas: 132