How the Yellow Vests Attempted to Rebuild the Urban Periphery of Paris: A Book Excerpt

How the Yellow Vests Attempted to Rebuild the Urban Periphery of Paris: A Book Excerpt

Book Cover The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy:  Ida Susser Adapted from The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy:  Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century. In June 2019, a group of Yellow Vests, the diverse protest movement that broke out a year earlier, and their families set to…

How the Yellow Vests Attempted to Rebuild the Urban Periphery of Paris

Yellow Vest protest in Belfort, France on December 1, 2018. Photo: Thomas Bresson. CC BY 4.0 In June 2019, a group of Yellow Vests, the diverse protest movement that broke out a year earlier, and their families set to work constructing a cabin on a holiday Saints Day. It was a Thursday, a welcome break during the working week, which many Parisians converted into a long weekend. The nondescript barren wasteland upon which the Yellow Vests chose t…