Bibliograph

Twilight of the elites, prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France, Christophe Guilluy ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise

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Twilight of the elites, prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France, Christophe Guilluy ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Twilight of the elites

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Christophe Guilluy ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise

Sub title

prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France

Summary

Christophe 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" has emerged in France as 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

Table Of Contents

The New Citadels -- An Americanized Society -- The Management of Public Opinion -- The Defection of the Working Class

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