Introduction: The Space-Time of the Gilets Jaunes

Francesco Brancaccio has a doctorate in theory of the state and comparative political institutions from the Sapienza University of Rome. He is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, and his research focuses on urban commons. He is a member of the CEMTI laboratory and the Department of Culture and Communication of the University of Paris 8. He is also part of the Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes collective. He edited with Carlo Vercellone SAQ 118, no. 4 (October 2019), titled “The Common.”