Regroupment and Retrenchment on the Radical Left in France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12735992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Wolfreys (King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-82 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-2790 • E-ISSN: 1478-2804 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14782800801970268 |
| OpenAlex | W1967880673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article will focus on three extraordinary episodes which took place in the 12 months between spring 2005 and spring 2006. These events, the referendum on the proposed European Union constitution, the urban riots of November 2005 and the movement against the De Villepin government's Contrat Première Embauche, bear witness to an upheaval in French politics and society, underpinned by a revolt against neo-liberalism which has been unfolding in an uneven and sometimes haphazard fashion for over a decade. This revolt has coincided with and exacerbated the decline of the two dominant political traditions in France of the past 20 years, Gaullism and social democracy, and has produced its own form of political expression, in the shape of a convergence of various grass roots networks with a number of parties and organizations of the radical political left. The potential of this convergence to pose a significant threat to the established mainstream parties is the central preoccupation of this essay.1 1 One indication of the scale of the development of the ‘gauche de la gauche’ has been the amount of literature devoted to it over recent years. Examples include Pingaud (2000 Pingaud, D. 2000. La Gauche de la Gauche. Contre-enquete, Paris: Seuil. [Google Scholar]), Crettiez & Sommier (2002 Crettiez, X. and Sommier, I., eds. 2002. La France Rebelle: Tous les Foyers, Acteurs et Mouvements de la Contestation, Paris: Michalon. [Google Scholar]), Sommier (2003 Sommier, I. 2003. Le Renouveau des Mouvements Contestataires à l'Heure de la Mondialisation, Paris: Flammarion. [Google Scholar]), Fougier (2004 Fougier, E. 2004. Altermondialisme, le Nouveau Mouvement d'Emancipation?, Paris: Editions Lignes de Repères. [Google Scholar]) and Raynaud (2006 Raynaud, P. 2006. L'Extrême Gauche Plurielle. Entre Démocratie Radicale et Révolution, Paris: Editions Autrement. [Google Scholar])
Constitution · Democracy · Economic history · Humanities · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Retrenchment · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Issues · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2021 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |