The Gilets Jaunes Protest: A Grand Refusal in an Age of Commuter Democracy
1December 13, 2018 by Andrew W M Smith
I wrote up some thoughts on the recent Gilets Jaunes protests taking place in France. You can read the article across at the ‘Age of Revolutions’ blog here:
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[…] conspiracy speaks to all of those instincts. In very recent history in France, we’ve had the Gilets Jaunes protest movement in 2018/19 which was decentralised, fairly diffuse in terms of demands (except for the fact that elites were […]