Three views on the ʿYellow Jacketsʾ movement

Fillieule, Olivier; Hayat, Samuel; Monchatre, Sylvie

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“…On November 17, thousands of people started to occupy roundabouts, block roads, and open free tolls, especially in rural and suburban areas, and join illegal protests in urban centers every Saturday. The mobilization brought together a heterogeneous group in terms of gender (compared to other movements, the movement included a significant number of women), previous activist experience (from first-time protesters to long-term political activists), age, position on the political spectrum (ranging from far right to far left), and professional background (Fillieule, Hayat, & Monchatre, 2020;Reungoat, Jouhanneau, & Buton, 2020). However, many actors came from the working and lower-middle class, experienced day-to-day economic difficulties, were in debt, and felt excluded from political institutions (Bantigny, 2019).…”

Section: Background: Presentation Of the Yellow Vest Movementmentioning

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Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence

Lobbedez

2023

Organization Studies

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Organisational research has increasingly recognised violence as an instrument for achieving compliance and maintaining the existing order. However, resisters tend to be portrayed as powerless in the face of this violence or engaging in hopeless acts of resistance. In comparison, by examining the context of violent protests, this paper discusses how activists can endure and use violence as part of their resistance. I build on a fifteen-month ethnography of the yellow vest movement to illuminate the absorptive resisting work involved in deploying resistance to and through violence. This absorptive resisting work included reducing the repressive effects of violent protests and embracing those effects to generate symbolic and discursive resources against police violence, as well as including violent protest tactics in ways that regenerated those resources. Ultimately, my findings reveal that this absorptive work allowed resisters to withstand violent protests in the short term and reframe them in the long term. This paper thus contributes to studies on resistance to violence by showing how people can effectively and collectively catalyse violence to challenge it.

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Section: Background: Presentation Of the Yellow Vest Movementmentioning

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Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence

Lobbedez

2023

Organization Studies

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“…The “losers” of globalization theory and an emphasis on diverging political interests lead us onto an analysis that views the YVM as an example and a result of developments in class structure in post-industrial societies (Algan et al, 2019; Fæssel, 2019; Fillieule et al, 2020; Kergreis, 2019; Sainte-Marie, 2019). This is the route proposed by the social movement scholar Donatella della Porta in her work on the anti-austerity movements Aslanidis describes as populist.…”

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Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement

Bergem

2022

Political Studies

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In this article, I analyze whether the case of the Yellow Vest movement fits Paris Aslanidis’ definition of populist social movements, and find that within the discursive theoretical framework Aslanidis adheres to, it does. However, I use the case of the Yellow Vest movement to demonstrate how this discursive approach lacks explanatory potential. I therefore propose moving away from a discursive definition of populist social movements, and advocate for studying political content as a way of detecting common interests shaped by political and societal structures that are shared by participants in a populist social movement. A theory of populist social movements must look at political and economic structures as well as individual agency, framing, and collective identity as a way to explain mobilization. A discursive approach to populism, which only considers language, is therefore not sufficient to explain movements such as the Yellow Vest movement.

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“…This protest group seemed to represent the masses: a heterogeneous collection including workers, active or retired, public service workers, teachers, artists, private sector managers who had been retrained, farmers, young craft and building workers, young people in precarious employment, home help aides, catering workers; workers writ large (Fillieule, Hayat, and Monchatre 2020 : 2). 2 Most of the Gilets Jaunes combine several jobs and atypical working schedules.…”

Section: Gilets Jaunes: Returning To the Lifeworld In Hypermodernitymentioning

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“…The worlds of the Gilets Jaunes were organized in small communities, each fixed on its own roundabout. The key dynamic was the creation of common understandings and solidarities between people, restructuring relations and helping create an emerging collective identity (Chédikian, Guillibert, and Gallo Lassere 2020 : 878, 881; Fillieule, Hayat, and Monchatre 2020 : 12). Roundabouts became veritable agoras over a few square meters (Gwiazdzinski and Floris 2019 : 4; Bendali et al 2019 : 167; Kipfer 2019 : 216).…”

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The Critical Masses: The Rise of Contemporary Populism and Its Relation to Solidarity, Systems, and Lifeworlds

Jaster

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Frère

2022

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This paper examines the contemporary spread of populism across the globe. We argue that populist movements worldwide are responses to the colonization of lifeworlds by increasingly opaque knowledge and regulatory systems. The complexity of the systems that regulate and control the day-to-day life of individuals from afar makes these systems alien and incomprehensible, and consequently perceived as illogical and oppressive. To regain a sense of autonomy, actors have reasserted a way of thinking and acting contrary to the organic web of global interdependence, seeking independence from communities outside the known lifeworld via revitalized community control and an emphasis upon qualities resembling mechanical solidarity. We evidence this claim by comparing two contemporary phenomena which seem to be distinct events until interpreted in this way: movements against international humanitarian law and the French Gilets Jaunes. We conclude by discussing the implications for those interested in contemporary populist events in the USA and abroad and the role of scientists in communicating our findings.

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Three views on the ʿYellow Jacketsʾ movement

Cited by 9 publications

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Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence

Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence

Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement

The Critical Masses: The Rise of Contemporary Populism and Its Relation to Solidarity, Systems, and Lifeworlds

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