The Gilets Jaunes Protest: A Grand Refusal in an Age of Commuter Democracy

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December 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:

https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/12/13/the-gilets-jaunes-protest-a-grand-refusal-in-an-age-of-commuter-democracy/

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One thought on “The Gilets Jaunes Protest: A Grand Refusal in an Age of Commuter Democracy”

  1. Qonspiracy | Dr Andrew W. M. Smith says:
    February 22, 2021 at 3:46 pm

    […] 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 […]

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