Metropolitics

Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France

David Gouard & translated by Oliver Waine — 2019-01-25T06:00:00Z

In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard presents a rigorous study of working-class trajectories “in search of respectability.” Resisting any temptation to offer an overarching, oversimplistic vision of the far-right vote, this work instead skillfully makes use of a municipal monograph to examine a village's political ecosystem in detail.
Since the late 2000s, studies of electoral behavior in France have sought to

- Reviews / periurban, local councillors, village, suburbs, elections, Front national, mayors, far right wing

Is rurality a thing of the past?

Philippe Dubourg & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-01-08T05:50:00Z

In the era of globalisation and metropolisation, is rurality an old-fashioned concept, a thing of the past? The arsenal of reforms and laws that have been passed – indeed, often forced through – in recent years in France seems to give weight to this idea, while the economic crisis has proved to be the perfect opportunity to (dis)unite small local authorities under the steamroller of global finance.
Metropolisation means concentrating not only economic life but also collective human existence

- Debates / France, rural, governance, local governance, intercommunality, village, metropolization, territorial equality