GILETSJAUNES

The outburst of the Yellow vests surprised by its scope, shape and evolution. Based on a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative data collected since November 2018, GILETSJAUNES, brings together the various research team working on Yellow vests over the past year. First, it aims at documenting the socio-demographic, political and spatial characteristics of the participants. Then it scrutinizes the processes of politicization and the transformations of the repertoire of action, deepening the question of the relationship to environmental issues. Finally, questioning its scope and effects, the project measures the media, political and social reception of the movement. Based on mix-methods it combines a synchronic and longitudinal approach of this unique social movement. Our project will draw on a very rich body of quantitative and qualitative data collected since November 2018. These data will be enriched and put into perspective with new data that will allow, in particular, to deepen the effects of politicization of the movement, its forms and logics of mediatization, as well as its consequences on political supply and demand. Our research design is based on a mix-methods for analysing materials of varied nature and origin, constituted in a corpus whose richness (diversity of modes and scales of collection, anchored in different sites of mobilization, diachronic dimension) and complementarity contribute to the heuristic scope of the project. The comparative and multidisciplinary approach that we are mobilizing is thus aimed at giving an account of the GJ movement in its different dimensions and at shedding light on its configurational complexity, while allowing generalizations by comparing the different materials and sites. Common training courses (BaseX, GIS, digital) will allow us to put this approach to the test. Three research questions guide our work: first, what are the sociospatial and sociological characteristics of Yellow Vests? To answer these questions, the ESO team explores the "configurations and spatiality of the movement of YGs" (WP2), while the CERIES team reconstructs the "professional careers, working conditions and wage claims" (WP3) in order to explain the displacement of conflictuality into new spaces. The second issue concerns the relationship to the Yellow Vests policy. Political values and behaviours are dealt with by one of the Pacte teams (WP4) and related to the "processes of politicisation of the movement and by the movement" (WP5) studied longitudinally by the CED team. More specifically, the project shows how the "Yellow jackets and environmental problems" are articulated through the study of their "ecologies, repertoires of action, configurations of mobilizations" (WP6) made by the AMURE team. The third research question concerns the media, political and social reception of the Yellow Vests movement. The LASSP team is interested in "the media production of the Yellow Vests" (WP7), in relation to the "agenda effects, transformations of the political offer and recompositions of the partisan system" produced by the movement seized by the Pacte team 2 (WP8). More specifically, the Pact team 3 is looking at the "reception of Yellow Vests by the inhabitants of working-class neighbourhoods". In the end, with this resolutely multidisciplinary project, which is at the heart of axis 4.4 "Inequalities, discrimination, migrations", we aim to explain both who the YGs are, what they do to politics and in turn what politics does to them.