{"id":43039,"date":"2019-01-21T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43039"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:06:02","slug":"the-gilets-jaunes-are-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43039","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The gilets jaunes are unstoppable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2019\/01\/11\/the-gilets-jaunes-are-unstoppable\/\">\u2018The\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2019\/01\/11\/the-gilets-jaunes-are-unstoppable\/\">gilets jaunes<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2019\/01\/11\/the-gilets-jaunes-are-unstoppable\/\">\u00a0are unstoppable\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2018\/12\/12\/its-time-for-the-people-to-take-power\/\"><em>gilets jaunes<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(yellow vest) movement has rattled the French establishment. For several months, crowds ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets every weekend across the whole of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/tag\/france\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>. They have had enormous success, extracting major concessions from the government. They continue to march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-31\/html\/container.html\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2014, geographer Christopher Guilluy\u2019s study of&nbsp;<em>la France p\u00e9riph\u00e9rique<\/em>&nbsp;(peripheral France) caused a media sensation. It drew attention to the economic, cultural and political exclusion of the working classes, most of whom now live outside the major cities. It highlighted the conditions that would later give rise to the yellow-vest phenomenon. Guilluy has developed on these themes in his recent books,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/No-society-classe-moyenne-occidentale\/dp\/2081422719\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1547215173&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=christophe+guilluy+no+society\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>No Society<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Twilight-Elites-Prosperity-Periphery-Future-ebook\/dp\/B07L14PD5D\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1547215173&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=christophe+guilluy+no+society\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Twilight of the Elite: Prosperity, the Periphery and the Future of France<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<em>spiked<\/em>&nbsp;caught up with Guilluy to get his view on the causes and consequences of the yellow-vest movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>spiked<\/em>:<\/strong>&nbsp;What exactly do you mean by \u2018peripheral France\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-31\/html\/container.html\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Christophe Guilluy:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2018Peripheral France\u2019 is about the geographic distribution of the working classes across France. Fifteen years ago, I noticed that the majority of working-class people actually live very far away from the major globalised cities \u2013 far from Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, and also very far from London and New York.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technically, our globalised economic model performs well. It produces a lot of wealth. But it doesn\u2019t need the majority of the population to function. It has no real need for the manual workers, labourers and even small-business owners outside of the big cities. Paris creates enough wealth for the whole of France, and London does the same in Britain. But you cannot build a society around this. The\u00a0<em>gilets jaunes<\/em>\u00a0is a revolt of the working classes who live in these places.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The\u00a0gilets jaunes\u00a0are unstoppable\u2019 The&nbsp;gilets jaunes&nbsp;(yellow vest) movement has rattled the French establishment. For several months, crowds ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets every weekend across the whole of&nbsp;France. They have had enormous success, extracting major concessions from the government. They continue to march. Back in 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24075,23652,23287],"class_list":["post-43039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-christophe-guilluy","tag-spiked","tag-yellow-vest-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43040,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43039\/revisions\/43040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}