Shedding light on the Yellow Vests movement ...
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Title :
Shedding light on the Yellow Vests movement through its spatial dimension, from the gathering places to the origins of the participants
Author(s) :
Walker, Etienne [Auteur]
Espaces et Sociétés [ESO]
Blavier, Pierre [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019
Espaces et Sociétés [ESO]
Blavier, Pierre [Auteur]

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019
Journal title :
French Politix
Volume number :
20
Pages :
318-345
Publication date :
2022-10-25
English keyword(s) :
Yellow vests
social movements
spatial dimension
social geography
metropolitan France
social movements
spatial dimension
social geography
metropolitan France
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
English abstract : [en]
Yellow vests gatherings spread across France in late November 2018, and arose mostly in peripheral France, where social movements are not used to appear. This movement have been already studied through its spatial dimension, ...
Show more >Yellow vests gatherings spread across France in late November 2018, and arose mostly in peripheral France, where social movements are not used to appear. This movement have been already studied through its spatial dimension, but without sources and methods being always unequivocal and deconstructed. In this context, our proposal aims to getting things straight among all the available sources and data which document the spatial dimension of the YV movement during the first months of the contestation. Through a monograph in Normandy, maps and a geostatistical study of YV gatherings at a national scale, we first highlight the disseminated, simultaneous but temporary YV appropriations of different strategic spaces in the margins of small towns, before massive and repeated central gatherings, which underlines the politicization of the movement. Then we explore the “Jaune vif” database, which is very relevant since it is the only source that documents both the gathering and the daily life spaces of protestors, essentially peri-urban or rural dwellers and inhabitants of small towns in the beginning, whose lifestyles and daily life spaces, often marginalized or depreciated, have been there brought to the forefront of politics. Even if some of them carried on mobilizing far from their home, the centralization of the movement appears to be coupled with a centralization of the protestors, who were gradually more metropolitan and used to social movements, structuring the movement at a broader scale.Show less >
Show more >Yellow vests gatherings spread across France in late November 2018, and arose mostly in peripheral France, where social movements are not used to appear. This movement have been already studied through its spatial dimension, but without sources and methods being always unequivocal and deconstructed. In this context, our proposal aims to getting things straight among all the available sources and data which document the spatial dimension of the YV movement during the first months of the contestation. Through a monograph in Normandy, maps and a geostatistical study of YV gatherings at a national scale, we first highlight the disseminated, simultaneous but temporary YV appropriations of different strategic spaces in the margins of small towns, before massive and repeated central gatherings, which underlines the politicization of the movement. Then we explore the “Jaune vif” database, which is very relevant since it is the only source that documents both the gathering and the daily life spaces of protestors, essentially peri-urban or rural dwellers and inhabitants of small towns in the beginning, whose lifestyles and daily life spaces, often marginalized or depreciated, have been there brought to the forefront of politics. Even if some of them carried on mobilizing far from their home, the centralization of the movement appears to be coupled with a centralization of the protestors, who were gradually more metropolitan and used to social movements, structuring the movement at a broader scale.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
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Submission date :
2022-12-02T22:00:37Z
2022-12-03T09:14:38Z
2022-12-03T09:14:38Z
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