Dispossessed

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The Working Classes and Their Instinct For Survival

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Christophe Guilluy

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-05
Mått142 x 218 x 18 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781509568451
ÖversättareBrown, Andrew

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Introduction Part 1: The sea Chapter 1. Access to the seaBack to square oneThe ‘unbowed’ bourgeoisie and the sense of heritage Chapter 2. The forbidden cityUrban cloningThe cemetery of the political leftThe forbidden city Chapter 3. The social imprintEcologically responsible, socially irresponsibleThe peril of social distancing Part 2. The fog Chapter 4. CinemaFrom narrative to cinemaTheir cinemaThe transclass, an Oscar-worthy roleThe realm of whiners Chapter 5. ‘There is no majority’The language that renders people invisibleThe parent company is Netflix The utopia of a new peopleComing out of one’s reserve Chapter 6. Apocalypse NowAct I: Enter the Prince of Darkness Act II: The announcement of dark times Part 3. The horizon Chapter 7. The radical nature of ordinary lifeThe survival instinctThe electoral hard discount and abstention Chapter 8. Not against but elsewhereA dialogue of the deafAnd what about a summit conference on living conditions? Chapter 9. Return to the centreThe IdiotThe West doesn’t need anyone else’s help to declineIt’s now okay to be pragmatic Epilogue Notes

"The dissident geographer Christophe Guilluy was the very first writer to describe the front lines of the class war globalization unleashed. He did it before Trump, before Brexit, before any university intellectual even recognized there was a conflict - and his account remains the best. The Dispossessed is the story of a working class bamboozled out of the civilization it helped build."Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties"A bracing polemic about the gap between the political class narrative and the reality of ordinary lives. Christophe Guilluy is the scourge of progressive, metropolitan hypocrisy."David Goodhart, author of The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics"a persuasive analysis of what he believes has gone wrong in France and why"Jason Cowley, The Sunday Times