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The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract

Devellennes, Charles (2022) The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 180 pp. ISBN 978-1-5292-1221-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:114531)

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Abstract

This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses what lessons can be drawn from their activities and the impact for the contemporary relationship between state and citizen.

Informed by a dialogue with past political theorists – from Hobbes, Spinoza and Rousseau to Rawls, Nozick and Diderot – and reflecting on the challenges posed by the yellow vest movement, the author rethinks the concept of the social contract for contemporary societies around the world. It proposes a new relationship between the state and the individual, and establishes the necessity of rethinking the modern democratic nature of our representative polities in order to provide a genuine process for the healing of social ills.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled keywords: Gilets Jaunes, yellow vests, social movements, social contract, democracy, justice, liberty, violenec.
Institutional Unit: Schools > School of Economics and Politics and International Relations > Politics and International Relations
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Funders: University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
Depositing User: Charles Devellennes
Date Deposited: 07 May 2026 13:55 UTC
Last Modified: 07 May 2026 13:55 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/114531 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Devellennes, Charles.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5895-1077
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