Les sciences sociales en gilet jaune

Bendali, Zakaria; Rubert, Aldo

doi:10.3917/pox.132.0177

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“…French scholarship provides conflicting interpretations of the YVM based on different data. In a first review, Bendali and Rubert (2020) identify three issues addressed by social sciences scholarship: participation, protest-rising and politicization. The first part of the research characterizes the participants and produced hypotheses to understand the motives and contexts of the protest.…”

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Understanding the French Yellow Vests movement through the lens of mixed methods: A French touch in social movement studies?

Sudda¹,

Reungoat

2022

Fr Polit

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This first special issue on the Yellow Vests movement (YVM) published in English has three objectives. First, we advocate that this puzzling movement proved to be an insightful research field for scholars to make a plea for mixed methods. By so doing, we bridge the usual gaps between positivist and constructivist approaches. Second, after four years of research, this publication is also a first milestone to provide empirical data and analysis of the movement, to better understand its evolution, significance and effects on French society. By combining case studies and nationalbased comparison, regional face-to-face surveys, national online surveys and inperson surveys, the nine articles provide a clearer and more precise picture of the movement's composition and its evolution over the months. In addition to a detailed description of the social and political components of the movement, several articles propose to establish bridges between the values and opinions of the Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vests, the cultural practices of the social groups from which they come, and the modalities of mobilization and form of politicization, inscribed in space and in time. In this way, they provide the debate with valuable keys to understanding the dynamics of the movement. Third, this special issue consequently further analyses how the YVM challenges contemporary social movements studies, the understanding of uprisings and assumptions about contentious politics. The first article introduces the major analytical issues and mixed-method approaches of the 9 articles and their contributions as whole to scholarship on the study of the YVM and social movements in France and from a comparative perspective.

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Section: A Plea For Mixed Methodsmentioning

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Understanding the French Yellow Vests movement through the lens of mixed methods: A French touch in social movement studies?

Sudda¹,

Reungoat

2022

Fr Polit

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“…In the case of the yellow vests, the movement's collective identity did not emerge from pre-existing or commonly ascribed identity features or political commonalities or by preexisting networks or infrastructures, although social media favors creating infrastructures to connect people beyond spatial location (Lopes 2014). First, the yellow vest movement cut across socioeconomic lines, though mostly working and middle class, uniting people with a wide range of incomes and professions (Bendali and Rubert 2021a;Collectif d'enquête sur les Gilets Jaunes et al 2019). Second, the movement did not coalesce around a single political affiliation, ideology, or political leaning (Boyer, Delemotte, Gauthier, Rollet, and Schmutz.…”

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The Strength of Pushback Collective Identity in a Fragmented Mass Movement*

Lobbedez¹,

Buchter²

2023

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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This article examines how social movement actors can forge and sustain a collective identity despite heterogeneous backgrounds and the absence of pre-existing commonalities and networks. Based on an ethnography of the French yellow vest movement, we build on the concept of reactive identity to describe two key mechanisms. First, we show this movement’s collective identity crystallized through the actors’ shared reactions to the broader sociopolitical environment. Then, we describe how identification processes are reinforced when social movement actors feel rejected, stigmatized, and repressed in their interactions with national institutions, civil society, and individuals. We explain how these mechanisms are useful for understanding the development of collective identities within mass movements, which encompass individuals with various and fragmented identities. Exploring new dimensions of reaction beyond the us-versus-them mechanisms of identity formation, we show how collective identity can coalesce for groups who became stigmatized as they mobilize to oppose their environment.

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Yellow Vest Movement (France)

Fillieule¹,

Dafflon²

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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The Yellow Vest (YV) movement originated in a Facebook group launched in January 2018 and took off in November of the same year. Since then, more than 50,000 demonstrations and gatherings have been counted, either in the form of occupying and blocking roundabouts, or in street demonstrations. Protests have spread all over the region, giving rise to riotous scenes, unprecedented in the police repression they triggered. This has led to a mobilization, considerable and hitherto unseen in many respects: this movement sprang from calls on the internet, with no external support. It was noteworthy in its duration, its territorial scope, its occurrence in urban, suburban, and rural areas, and its blunt refusal of all leadership. While the participants were in a variety of socioeconomic positions, the vast majority of them had, until that point, been uninvolved in any political, union, or group activity, including voting.

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Les sciences sociales en gilet jaune

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding the French Yellow Vests movement through the lens of mixed methods: A French touch in social movement studies?

Understanding the French Yellow Vests movement through the lens of mixed methods: A French touch in social movement studies?

The Strength of Pushback Collective Identity in a Fragmented Mass Movement*

Yellow Vest Movement (France)

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