The Yellow Vests: multidisciplinary approaches to popular mobilizations and politicizations – GILETSJAUNES

The ANR GILETJAUNE project is a unique collaborative research, gathering 50 people in the heart of an international research network. The scientific visibility of the project is accompanied by a remarkable dissemination work. The SAPS label application aims to institutionalize the dissemination dynamics that characterize our project. It will be supported by the Centre Emile Durkheim, based at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
In line with the FAIR principles, our dissemination strategy is organized around five axes:
1. Making available to the public, via the Progedo Quetelet Diffusion portal, a) primary and secondary quantitative databases, and b) a harmonized catalog referencing (non-identifying) data and metadata. To accompany the opening, one or more data papers will be published in peer-reviewed data journals.
2. Deposit of articles in open archives (Hal-SHS) and Hypothesis notebook (https://giletsjaunes.hypotheses.org/).
3. Wide dissemination of our scientific productions to non-academic audiences through the national and local daily press. Our first results have generated a strong demand from the civil society and have received important media coverage. The invitation to the International Festival of Journalism in the summer of 2022 expanded the audience to a regional and international audience (https://festivalinternationaldejournalisme.com/).
4. Cycle of citizen and participatory research meetings (2022-2024) The first colloquium "From the waltz of the traffic circles to the Cahiers de la colère", co-organized by the ANR GILETSJAUNES with the Association PourquoiPas?, the Departmental Archives, the Musée d'Aquitaine, and three collectives of Yellow Vests was supported by the Bordeaux City Council as part of the Fortnight for Equality. The radio association la Clé des Ondes covered this event by organizing live broadcasts before and after the conference. The audience of a hundred people on the first day and seventy on the second, composed of a university and non-university public (the majority), of the civil society of the Region and beyond, showed the strong societal expectation and the interest of public decision-makers who came to engage in a collaboration with the research team.
The success of this event leads us to consider 1) the renewal of the event next year for the 5 years of the Yellow Vests movement, 2) a consolidation of the partnership with the Clé des Ondes to promote the scientific results of the first 3 years of the ANR GILETSJAUNES
5. Valuing citizen participation and the appropriation of results
The six vignettes produced in response to this call for proposals will participate in participatory scientific mediation: people are involved in this audio collection, which aims to constitute an accessible archive of the social movement. In the same vein, we will consider participatory restitution sessions with citizen collectives, elected officials and public decision-makers as well as a presentation of the publications through the network of libraries and bookstores that had requested us.

The steering structure is composed of the WP1 of the ANR, institutional partners and the media involved in the scientific dissemination process. The Yellow Vests collectives and associations are also represented in the steering committee.