Games of Discontent: Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 1968 Mexico Olympics 9780228006947, 0228006945

The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States,

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Games of Discontent: Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 1968 Mexico Olympics 9780228006930
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Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London 9780813562032
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The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibiti

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Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968 9781477307496
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In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater dem

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Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent 9781107081536, 2015016104
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More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Se

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Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia 1317813170, 9781317813170
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Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide [third edition] 9781501765803
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In this third edition of Border Games, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs an

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Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968 9780822356318 0822356317 9780822356370 0822356376
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The Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico 1968, and the Emotional Triangle of Anger, Grief and Shame 9781786832825, 9781786832801
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As unions increasingly resort to corporate campaigns, top-down organizing, neutrality agreements, and consumer boycotts,

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