Axel Elías

(he/him/his)

Visiting Scholar

I am a cultural historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. I am interested in everyday forms of nation building and I am currently studying the intersections of Mexican gastronationalism and migration in New York City.

Academic Interests

Gastronationalism, migration, sport studies, histories of emotions and the body

Education

Licenciado, History, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Maester’s, Modern and Contemporary History, Instituto Mora

PhD, History, King’s College London

Publications

Mexico City’s Olympic Games. Citizenship and Nation Building, 1963-1968, Palgrave Macmillan, under Contract. Forthcoming October 2021.

‘Mexico 1970: football and multiple forms of modern nation-building during the 1970 World Cup’ Soccer & Society, 2020, DOI:10.1080/14660970.2020.1793623

Aragón Pérez, Alberto and Axel Elías J., ‘A Case Study Comparison of the Presence of Women in Two Olympic Organising Committees: Mexico’68 and Barcelona’92’ in History of Women’s Work in Global Sport, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-26909-8.

Georgia Cervin, Grégory Quin and Axel Elías, ‘From the Carpet to Executive Committee: Women Leading Women’s Gymnastics’. Histories of Women’s Work in Global Sport. A Man’s World? Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 2365-998X y 2365-9998.

‘”Diffuser une image positive de notre pays” A propos de l’utilisation de la science et des technologies pendant les Jeux Olympiques de Mexico et leur organisation”‘ in Grégory Quin and Anaïs Bohuon, 1968, le sport fait sa révolution à Mexico, Editions Glyphe, 2018, ISBN/EAN 978-2-35815-252-5

‘The exact route to achieving success’: ‘Statecraft and the management of Third World expectations during the XIX Olympiad in Mexico’, Diagoras International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies, Vol. 2, November 2018, ISSN: 2565-196X