Essays about: "Yellow Vests"
Found 5 essays containing the words Yellow Vests.
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1. Evaluating a Carbon Tax : France as a Case Study - CO2 Emissions from Cars
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : This quasi-experimental study is the first to evaluate the French experience of adding a carbon tax directly onto existing taxes on fossil fuel consumption by performing an econometric case study. Furthermore, the introduction of the French carbon tax resulted in the so called “yellow vests protests”, the protests acted as a catalyst, and further stressed the need to evaluate environmental taxes, not only in relation to combating global warming but also regarding the procedures of providing information to the public. READ MORE
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2. “End of the world, end of the month, same struggle”: On depoliticized transitions and emancipatory sustainability transformations - A case study of The French Citizens’ Convention on Climate
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Reflecting an emerging trend in democratic innovation to tackle complex socio-ecological challenges, the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate (CCC) was initiated in response to climate protests and the Yellow Vests movement to define measures for achieving a socially just 40% reduction in GHG-emissions. Approaching the CCC as both an outcome and site of hegemonic struggle, I apply social movements theory and document analysis methods to investigate its genealogy, policy proposals, influence on decision-making, and evaluate its potential for sustainability transformations. READ MORE
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3. Depoliticizing discourses. The role of editorials in the reproduction of consensus: assessing the media coverage of the Yellow Vest movement
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to study how Yellow Vest protests, which started 17November 2018, and protesters themselves, were being described in the French mainstreampress. The material consisted in 19 editorials from 5 of the most-circulated newspapers in thecountry. READ MORE
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4. Real or Perceived? When powerlessness hinders climate policy support. The France of the Yellow Vests: an application.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This research draws a parallel between the recent political backlashes witnessed in the (de)-industrialized world and people’s attitudes towards climate policies. In lieu of the rise of populism, subjective feelings induced by individuals’ perceptions of their condition have increasingly been considered by researchers. READ MORE
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5. From the Paris Conference to the Paris of the Yellow Vests: a laboratory for characterizing transition profiles and cultural repertoires to apprehend social and perceptive conflicts of sustainability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This paper contributes to sustainability transitions studies in delivering stronger focus and relevance on culture and discursive features to apprehend social resistances towards transition agendas, and the unprecedented emergence of the challenging antagonism of the ‘end of the world’ versus ‘the end of the month’ revealed by the case study of the Yellow Vests crisis in France since November 2018. Aiming at opening the door to broader “ontologies” to transition frameworks, while supporting narrower profiles for the formulation of transition strategies, the paper initiates a narrative analysis and a tracing process to assess how the universal resolve of the 2015 Paris Conference and its established legitimacy of the sustainability discourse has been further contested by the Yellow Vests, and their fractured framing that would permeate the national public cognitive stage. READ MORE
