CEPEL

Emmanuelle REUNGOAT

 Career History

  • Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Montpellier since 2014.
  • Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2012).
  • Winner of the runner-up prize in the P. Pfimlin Thesis Award, European Parliament.

Current Projects

  • Principal Investigator of the “Politicization Process” Working Package, ANR-Yellow Vests Survey (co-directed with M. Della Sudda), 2020–2024.
  • Leader of the interdisciplinary, cross-MSH project: LonGI, a comparative biographical study of the Yellow Vests movement, 2020–2022.
  • Project leader for “Devenirs Gilets jaunes” (with F. Buton), MSH SUD, 2019–2020.
  • Project: “Gilettes: The Yellow Vests Through a Gender Lens,” GIS Gender, 2019–2020.
  • BAROC Project (led by JY. Dormagen), Public Opinion Barometer in Occitanie, a project funded by the Occitanie Region, 2019–2021.

 Completed Projects

  • Project leader for Misha Jr.’s “Territoires d’élection” (2014–2015).
  • Researcher on the projects “RAGE: Hate Speech and Populist Othering in Europe Through the Lens of Racism, Age, and Gender” and “E-Engagement Against Violence in Europe,” coordinated in France by the University of Paris 8 (2013–2014).
  • Researcher on the EACEA project: “Youth Participation in Democratic Life.” London School of Economics (LSE), (2011–2012).

Administrative responsibilities, research, and outreach

  • 2017–2021: Co-Director of the Department of Political Science at the University of Montpellier.
  • 2016–2019: Director of the Master’s 2 program in Journalism. Project leader for the MUSE “Take Off” initiative on innovative teaching methods, “A Master’s 2.0,” as part of the ANR’s Idex-I-Site program, €10,000, 2018.
  • 2014–2020: Faculty Advisor for the Political Science Department Association.
  • 2014–2016: Program Director for the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.
  • 2015–2019: Co-organizer of the CEPEL Seminar on Current Trends in Social Science Research.

Courses at the University of Montpellier:

  • Sociology of Political Actors, Second Year of the Bachelor's Program.
  • Social Movements and Mobilizations, Second Year of the Bachelor's Program.
  • History of European Integration, Junior Year.
  • Populism in Europe, Junior Year.
  • European Institutions, Master's Degree (Year 1).
  • Research Methodology, Master’s 2 in Research.

Research Areas

  • Protests, social movements, the Yellow Vests movement.
  • Resistance to Europe & “Euroscepticism.” European integration, Europeanization, European elections, citizenship.
  • Political parties & the far right, populism. Analysis of political discourse.

Books

The Future of the Yellow Vests(ed., with S. Bordiec, F. Buton, E. Dondeyne, E. Walker). Sociopo, Le Croquant, 2025.

Common Misconceptions About the Yellow Vests: A Barometer of Contemporary Social Struggles (ed. with F. Buton), Le Cavalier Bleu, 2024. Available on Cairn.

In the Name of the People? Common Misconceptions About Populism, (with H. Cuchetti & A. Dézé), Le Cavalier Bleu, 2021.

A Study of Anti-European Forces: From the Right and the Left, Their Impact from the Past to the Present, Le Bord de l’eau, 2019.

journal issue numbers

(with Magali Della Sudda)“The Yellow Vest Movement in France: A Mixed-Method Approach,” French Politics, Special Double Issue, Vol. 20, (3–4), December 2022.

(with C. Bouillaud),“Opposed in Diversity: The Uses of Anti-European Sentiment in France,” Politique Européenne, 2014, Vol. 1, No. 43.

(with J. Pozzi), “A History of the ‘Anti-Europeans’: Twenty Years of Sovereignist and Anti-European Movements in France (1992–2012),” *Les Cahiers d’Histoire Immédiate*, Spring–Summer 2015.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

 “The Yellow Vests as Protagonists: Ordinary Citizens Entering Politics” (with F. Buton and C. Jouhanneau), *Participations*, 41(1), 2025, pp. 61–90.

“The Yellow Vests: An Endless Revolt? A Collective Ethnography of Roundabouts to Understand the Movement’s Duration,” (with A. Bernard de Raymond, L. Bonin, S. Bordiec, C. Clement, P. Chiron, K. Clement, C. Elalaoui, P. Liochon, Q. Ravelli), Genèses, 2023/1 (No. 130), pp. 80–111. DOI: 10.3917/gen.130.0080.

“Understanding the French Yellow Vests movement through the lens of mixed methods: A French touch in social movement studies?” (with M. Della Sudda), introduction, in French Politics, 20, (3-4), December 2022, pp. 303–317.

“Becoming Political While Avoiding Politics: A Study of First-Time Yellow Vest Protesters,”(with F. Buton and C. Jouhanneau) in French Politics, 20, (3–4), December 2022, pp. 395–419.

“United in Diversity: Understanding What Unites and What Divides the Yellow Vests”(with J. Y. Dormagen and L. Michel), in *French Politics*, 20, (3–4), December 2022, pp. 444–478.

“Are movements opposed to climate change policy necessarily anti-environmental? A review of social science research on the Yellow Vests’ environmental attitudes?” (with A. Levain, S. Persico, C. Alexandre, C. Dondeyne, C. Elalaoui, L. Fortun, N. Gaborit, Y. Le Lann, M. Della Sudda), French Politics, 20, (3-4), December 2022, pp. 550–572.

(with J-Y. Dormagen and L. Michel),“When Green Divides Yellow: How Divisions Over Ecology Operate Within the Yellow Vests Movement,” *Ecologie et politique*, 62, 2021.

“Conducting On-Site Surveys of an Ongoing Protest Movement: A Study of the Yellow Vests,”Yellow Vests Research Collective, Revue Française de science politique, 2019, No. 5–6, Vol. 69.

“Mobilizing Europe in national competition: The case of the French National Front,”in the special issue (ed. N. Brack & N. Startin) “The times they are a-changin’: Euroscepticism from the margins to the mainstream,” International Political Science Review, June 2015, 36 (3), pp. 296–310.

(With C. Bouillaud), “AreThey All Opponents? From Euroscepticism to the Uses of Criticism of Europe,” (with C. Bouillaud),*Politique Européenne*, 2014, No. 43, Vol. 1, pp. 9–45.

“Mobilizing Europe in the National Arena,”European Policy, 2014, No. 43, Vol. 1, pp. 120–162.

“Anti-EU Parties & the People. An Analysis of Populism in French Euromanifestos”in special issue (S. Dechezelles & L. Neumayer), “Is Populism a Side-Effect of European Integration? Radical Parties and the Europeanization of Political Competition,”Perspectives on European Politics & Society, 2010, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 292–312.

Preprints, articles in non-peer-reviewed journals, and dictionary entries

Reungoat, Emmanuelle, Cecile Jouhanneau, and François Buton. 2020.“Becoming Yellow Vests: The Politicization of Ordinary Citizens (France 2018–20).”American Political Science Association Preprints. doi: 10.33774/apsa-2020-dz80s.

Buton, François, Emmanuelle Reungoat, and Cecile Jouhanneau. 2020.“A Renewal of Protest? Observing the Yellow Vests Through the Biographical Lens.”APSA Preprints. doi: 10.33774/apsa-2020-mww3t.

“The Challenges of Establishing a Sovereigntist Party in France (1992–2009),” in Anti-Europeans, Euroskeptics, and Sovereigntists: A History of Resistance to Europe, Les Cahiers IRICE (Proceedings), No. 4, 2009, pp. 113–128.

“Representing Citizens Through Interest Groups: Challenges and Shortcomings of a Routine-Driven Community System,”Savoir/Agir, December 2013, No. 16, pp. 103–110.

Entries for “Euroskeptics” and “Sovereignists” in E. Lambert-Abdelgawad and H. Michel,*Dictionary of European Actors*, Brussels: Larcier, 2015.

Book chapters

“Exploring the Long-Term and Short-Term Causes of Euroscepticism: The Historical Roots of French Opposition to European Integration,”in DS. Mark Gilbert and Daniele Pasquinucci, *Euroscepticism: The Historical Roots of a Political Channel*, *European Studies*,Vol. 36, Brill, 2020, pp. 33–56.

 “Changing the Rules, Changing the Winners? The Various Effects of European Election Rules on Party Opposition to the EU in France”in B. Leruth, N. Startin, S. Usherwood, *Handbook of Euroscepticism*, Routledge, 2017, pp. 155–197.

“The 2014 European Parliament Election and French Opposition to the EU since 1979: Evolution and Influence,”in Hassing Nielsen, Julie, and Mark N. Franklin (eds.),*The Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Election: Second Order or Second Rate?*, Palgrave, 2017, pp. 17–36.

“Political Sociology of the European Union,” in E. Savarese & C. Roux, Handbook of Political Science, Larcier 2017.

“Voting Systems, Campaign Financing, and the Emergence of ‘Eurosceptic’ Parties in European Elections in France,”in Libera, M., Schirmann, S., Wassenberg B. (eds.), Abstention, Euroscepticism, and Anti-Europeanism in European Elections from 1979 to the Present, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016.

“Is Criticism of ‘Europe’ a Stalwart of the FN’s Political Strategy?”, in S. Crépon, A. Dézé, N. Mayer, *The National Front: A Party in Transition?*, Presses de Sciences Po, 2015.

“Toward a More Inclusive European Democracy: Some Thoughts,” in Marco Mascia,*Toward a Transnational European Party System*, Bari: Cacucci, 2014, pp. 137–148.

“Changes in Discourse and Positions of Resistance Toward Europe in French Political Parties (1979–2009),” in Pasquinucci, Daniele, and Preda, Daniela (eds.), *Consensus and European Integration*, Peter Lang, Euroclio, 2012, pp. 165–180.

“Europeanization in Text: The Place and Treatment of Europe in the European Manifestos of French Political Parties (1979–2009),” in M. Petithomme, *The Europeanization of National Political Competition: Adaptations and Resistances in Comparative Perspective*, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Europa Series, 2011, pp. 47–71.

“Partisan Resistance to Europe within French Political Parties: Issues of Self-Presentation and Labeling”in B. Wassenberg, F. Clavert, P. Hamman (eds.), Against Europe? Anti-Europeanism, Euroscepticism, and Alter-Europeanism in European Integration from 1945 to the Present: Concepts, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010, Vol. 1, pp. 155–171.

“Everyday Appropriations of Europe: The EU as Seen by the ANPE,” in A. Crespy and M. Petithomme (eds.), Europe Under Pressure: Appropriation and Contestation of European Integration, Paris: L’Harmattan, Logiques Politiques, 2010, pp. 113–131.

Documentary film

A Taste of Wrestling (with P-O. Gaumin), Documentary, 58 min, Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée.