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Beschreibung

Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people. Their deep roots are existential rather than material.

These protests are not driven by class consciousness or ideology but by the sense that people have been abandoned, stripped of their rights and shunted out to the peripheries of social and economic life. This is the movement of the dispossessed - of a mass of ordinary people who have gained a will of their own and are no longer content to comply with the directives of elites who want to tell them how to live and behave. The high-profile political events of recent years - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of right-wing parties - are merely surface tremors of a much deeper tectonic shift caused by the slow displacement of a forgotten continent.

In this book Christophe Guilluy uncovers this forgotten continent of the dispossessed and shows how ordinary people are rising up and responding to their programmed disappearance by forging an alternative to a doomed model.

Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people. Their deep roots are existential rather than material.

These protests are not driven by class consciousness or ideology but by the sense that people have been abandoned, stripped of their rights and shunted out to the peripheries of social and economic life. This is the movement of the dispossessed - of a mass of ordinary people who have gained a will of their own and are no longer content to comply with the directives of elites who want to tell them how to live and behave. The high-profile political events of recent years - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of right-wing parties - are merely surface tremors of a much deeper tectonic shift caused by the slow displacement of a forgotten continent.

In this book Christophe Guilluy uncovers this forgotten continent of the dispossessed and shows how ordinary people are rising up and responding to their programmed disappearance by forging an alternative to a doomed model.

Über den Autor

Christophe Guilluy is a French geographer and the author of several books, including The Twilight of the Elites.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: The sea

Chapter 1. Access to the sea
Back to square one
The 'unbowed' bourgeoisie and the sense of heritage

Chapter 2. The forbidden city
Urban cloning
The cemetery of the political left
The forbidden city

Chapter 3. The social imprint
Ecologically responsible, socially irresponsible
The peril of social distancing

Part 2. The fog

Chapter 4. Cinema
From narrative to cinema
Their cinema
The transclass, an Oscar-worthy role
The realm of whiners

Chapter 5. 'There is no majority'
The language that renders people invisible
The parent company is Netflix
The utopia of a new people
Coming out of one's reserve

Chapter 6. Apocalypse Now
Act I: Enter the Prince of Darkness
Act II: The announcement of dark times

Part 3. The horizon

Chapter 7. The radical nature of ordinary life
The survival instinct
The electoral hard discount and abstention

Chapter 8. Not against but elsewhere
A dialogue of the deaf
And what about a summit conference on living conditions?

Chapter 9. Return to the centre
The Idiot
The West doesn't need anyone else's help to decline
It's now okay to be pragmatic

Epilogue

Notes

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781509568468
ISBN-10: 1509568468
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Guilluy, Christophe
Übersetzung: Brown, Andrew
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 135 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Christophe Guilluy
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,194 kg
Artikel-ID: 133549998