Twilight of the Elites

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apartChristophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"-one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery."As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country's new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy's analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an "open society" in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christophe Guilluy
• Con la collaborazione di: Malcolm Debevoise (Traduzione), DeBevoise Malcolm (Traduzione)
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.01.2020
• Categoria: Saggistica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia contemporanea (dal 1945 al 1989)
• EAN: 9780300248425
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24842-5
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm
• Categorie: US, France, European History, Economics, Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, Marine le Pen, Macron, UK, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Europe / France, 21st Century, Upper Class, Poverty & unemployment, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Economic Geography, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Multiculturalism, Social classes, Angry, Economics of specific sectors, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, Public housing, egalitarianism, Polemical, american society;economic citadels;rise of the national front;multiculturalism;egalitarianism;corridors of power;upper class;immigration;public housing;french government;macron;marine le pen;US;UK;angry;polemical;yellow vest;yellow jacket protest, rise of the national front, economic citadels, yellow jacket protest, corridors of power, yellow vest, french government