Title :

Are movements against climate-change policy anti-environmental? Research on the Yellow Vest Movement

Author(s) :

Levain, Alix [Auteur]
Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer [AMURE]
Persico, Simon [Auteur]
Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales [PACTE]
Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble [IEPG]
Alexandre, Chloé [Auteur]
Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales [PACTE]
Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble [IEPG]
Dondeyne, Christèle [Auteur]
Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer [AMURE]
Université de Bretagne Occidentale - UFR Droit et sciences économiques [UBO UFR DSE]
Elalaoui, Charif [Auteur]
Université de Caen Normandie [UNICAEN]
Espaces et Sociétés [ESO]
Della Sudda, Magali [Auteur]
Centre Émile Durkheim [CED]
Gaborit, Nathan [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche "Individus Epreuves Sociétés" - ULR 3589 [CeRIES]
Fortun, Lucie [Auteur]
Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer [AMURE]
Le Lann, Yann [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche "Individus Epreuves Sociétés" - ULR 3589 [CeRIES]
Reungoat, Emmanuelle [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes Politiques Et sociaLes : Environnement, Santé, Territoires [CEPEL]

Journal title :

French Politics
Special issue: Understanding the Yellow Vests through the Lens of Mixed Methods

Pages :

550-572

Publisher :

Palgrave Macmillan

Publication date :

2022-12

ISSN :

1476-3419

English keyword(s) :

Social Movement
Yellow Vests
Climate change
Ecology
Carbon tax

HAL domain(s) :

Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Etudes de l'environnement
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

English abstract : [en]

The French Yellow Vest (YV) movement was born out of the opposition to an increase in carbon taxation. It has therefore been conventionally depicted as an anti-environmental protest. This article challenges this view, based ...
Show more >The French Yellow Vest (YV) movement was born out of the opposition to an increase in carbon taxation. It has therefore been conventionally depicted as an anti-environmental protest. This article challenges this view, based on a review of scholarship on YVs and on the environmental values, actions and mobilizations of underprivileged citizens. We start with an overview of the studies available on the YVs’ characteristics and their relationship to ecology and draw on different large-N data to show that YVs are on average similar to the French general population, with low levels of environmental concerns, a distance from “institutional environmentalism”. The coexistence of an ecological block and an anti-ecological block within the movement is not peculiar to YVs. We recall how carbon taxes generate right-wing contestation resisting taxation in general, but also opposition from left-wing activists concerned with social justice and/or the climate crisis. Local interactions with environmentalist mobilizations result in spatial variations and changes over time in YVs’ environmental attitudes. Finally, we emphasize the varieties of environmentalism among dominated social groups. The conclusion derives lessons on the drivers of contestation of climate policy and draws avenues for further research.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Les Gilets jaunes : approches pluridisciplinaires des mobilisations et politisations populaires

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche "Individus Epreuves Sociétés" (CeRIES) - ULR 3589

Source :

Harvested from HAL