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dc.contributor.author | Wilkin, P | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-09T15:12:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-17 | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-09T15:12:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03-02 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Wilkin, P. (2020 ) 'Fear of a Yellow Planet: The Gilets Jaunes and the End of the World', Journal of World-Systems Research, 26 (1), pp. 70 - 102. doi: 10.5195/JWSR.2020.902. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/20464 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The emergence of the Gilet Jaunes has seen a section of the popular classes present a significant challenge to the elite-driven ideological frameworks that have dominated since the end of the cold war: neoliberalism and the Clash of Civilisations. What Immanuel Wallerstein calls ‘centrist liberalism’ has been the dominant ideological foundation of the modern world-system since the late nineteenth century. Its current form, neoliberalism, is in crisis across the core of the world-system, intensified following the Great Recession of 2008. This has invited new challenges from revived and reconstituted political formations of both right and left. Populist movements are a part of this process of ideological reconstitution, and the Gilets Jaunes are an important example of progressive populism calling for social and economic justice. What was triggered by a protest directed at increased fuel taxes rapidly escalated into a much broader protest movement whose influence has spread beyond French borders. Importantly, the Gilet Jaunes have brought a layer of the French working-classes into the public realm in dramatic fashion, raising issues such as equality, public welfare, and participatory and direct democracy that challenge neo-liberal norms. The agenda that has emerged from the Gilet Jaunes illustrates the way in which a working-class left is being reconstituted in opposition to forces of the political right. The article addresses three main questions: Why have the Gilet Jaunes emerged? Who makes up these protests? What do they mean? | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 70 - 102 | - |
dc.format.medium | Electronic | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh | en_US |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
dc.subject | gilet jaunes/yellow vests | en_US |
dc.subject | horizontalism | en_US |
dc.subject | populism | en_US |
dc.subject | protest | en_US |
dc.title | Fear of a Yellow Planet: The Gilets Jaunes and the End of the World | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5195/JWSR.2020.902 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Journal of World-Systems Research | - |
pubs.issue | 1 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
pubs.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1076-156X | - |
Appears in Collections: | Sociology Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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