Dispossessed

Christophe Guilluy is a French geographer and the author of several books, including The Twilight of the Elites.

• IntroductionPart 1: The seaChapter 1. Access to the seaBack to square oneThe 'unbowed' bourgeoisie and the sense of heritageChapter 2. The forbidden cityUrban cloningThe cemetery of the political leftThe forbidden cityChapter 3. The social imprintEcologically responsible, socially irresponsibleThe peril of social distancingPart 2. The fogChapter 4. CinemaFrom narrative to cinemaTheir cinemaThe transclass, an Oscar-worthy roleThe realm of whinersChapter 5. 'There is no majority'The language that renders people invisibleThe parent company is NetflixThe utopia of a new peopleComing out of one's reserveChapter 6. Apocalypse NowAct I: Enter the Prince of DarknessAct II: The announcement of dark timesPart 3. The horizonChapter 7. The radical nature of ordinary lifeThe survival instinctThe electoral hard discount and abstentionChapter 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 pragmaticEpilogueNotes

"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