Fear of a Yellow Vest Planet

The Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) protests that started in November 2018 have rocked French political culture and led critics to denounce the movement as being a threat to democracy, or worse. Amongst other things the protestors were accused of being barbarians, philistines, racists, anti-Semites and reactionaries who would destroy both France and European civilisation. In fact, this book argues that the protests must be understood as part of a wave of protests against the extension of the market