CEPEL

Emmanuelle Reungoat

 Career history

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

Ongoing projects

  • Leader of the Working Package "Politicization Process," ANR-Survey on the Yellow Vests (with M. Della Sudda, ed.) 2020-2024.
  • Leader of the interdisciplinary inter-MSH project: LonGI, comparative biographical approaches to the yellow vests 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 Genre, 2019-2020.
  • BAROC Project (led by JY. Dormagen), Opinion Barometer in Occitanie, Project funded by the Occitanie Region, 2019-2021.

 Completed projects

  • Project leader for Misha Jr's "Territoires d'élection" (Electoral Territories). (2014-2015).
  • Researcher in 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,” French coordinator: Paris 8 University (2013–2014).
  • Researcher in the EACEA project: “Youth Participation in Democratic Life.” London School of Economics (LSE), (2011-2012).

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • 2017-2021: Co-director of the Department of Political Science at the University of Montpellier.
  • 2016-2019: Head of the Master 2 program in Journalism. Leader of the MUSE “Take Off” Innovative Teaching Methods “A Master 2.0” project, as part of the ANR’s Idex-I-Site program, €10,000, 2018.
  • 2014-2020: Head Teacher of the Political Science Department Association.
  • 2014-2016: Head of the Political Science Bachelor's Degree Program.
  • 2015-2019: Co-organization of the CEPEL Seminar on Current Research in Social Sciences.

Teaching at the University of Montpellier:

  • Sociology of Political Actors, Bachelor's Degree 2.
  • Social movements and mobilizations, Bachelor's degree, second year.
  • History of European Integration, Bachelor's Degree.
  • Populism in Europe, Bachelor's Degree.
  • European institutions, Master's 1.
  • Research Methodology, Master's Degree in Research.

Research Areas

  • Mobilizations, social movements, yellow vest movement.
  • Resistance to Europe & Euroscepticism. European integration, Europeanization, European elections, citizenship.
  • Political parties & the far right, populism. Analysis of political discourse.

Books

Becoming Yellow Vests, (ed., with S. Bordiec, F. Buton, E. Dondeyne, E. Walker) Sociopo, Le Croquant, 2025.

Preconceived notions about the Yellow Vests, a marker of contemporary social struggles (edited 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.

Survey of Opponents to Europe. On the Right and Left, Their Impact from Yesterday to Today, Le Bord de l'eau, 2019.

journal number directions

(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 opposition to Europe in France," Politique Européenne, 2014, Vol. 1, No. 43.

(with J. Pozzi), "A History of the 'Anti-Europeans': Twenty Years of Sovereignist and Alter-European Mobilization 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 Yellow Vests First-Timers,”(with F. Buton, 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 JY Dormagen, 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," Ecology and Politics, 62, 2021.

“Investigating an ongoing mobilization in situ using questionnaires: 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 Front National,”in special issue (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), "Tous des opposants ? De l’euroscepticisme aux usages de la critique de l’Europe" (All opponents? FromEuroscepticism to the usesof criticism of Europe), (with C. Bouillaud),Politique Européenne, 2014, No. 43, Vol. 1, pp. 9-45.

"Mobilizing Europe in national competition,"European Politics, 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”,Perspective on European Politics & Society, 2010, Vol.11, 3, pp. 292-312.

Preprints, articles in journals without editorial boards, 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 difficulties of establishing a sovereigntist party in France (1992-2009)," in Anti-Europeans, Eurosceptics, 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-based community system,"Savoir/Agir, December 2013, No. 16, pp. 103-110.

Entries for “Eurosceptics” and “Sovereignists” in E. Lambert-Abdelgawad and H. Michel,Dictionnaire des acteurs de l’Europe(Dictionary of European Players), 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, 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 Oppositions to the EU in France”in B. Leruth, N. Startin, S. Usherwood, Handbook of Euroscepticism, Routledge, 2017, pp. 155–197.

"The 2014 EP Election and French Oppositions to the EU since 1979: Evolution and Influence,"in Hassing Nielsen, Julie, Franklin, Mark N. (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, Political Science Handbook, 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.), Abstentionism, Euroscepticism, and Anti-Europeanism in European Elections from 1979 to the Present, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016.

"Criticism of 'Europe': a stable resource for the FN's political enterprise?" in S. Crépon, A. Dézé, N. Mayer, Le Front national: un parti en transition? (The National Front: a party in transition?), Presse de Science Po, 2015.

“Towards a more inclusive European democracy: avenues for reflection,” in Marco Mascia,Verso un sistema partitico europeo transnazionale, Bari, Cacucci, 2014, pp. 137–148.

“Changes in discourse and resistance positions 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 the text: the place and treatment of Europe in the Euro-manifestos of French parties (1979-2009), in M. Petithomme, The Europeanization of national political competition, Adaptations and resistance in comparative perspective, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Coll. Europa, 2011, pp. 47-71.

"Partisan resistance to Europe in 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.

"Ordinary 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

Des Goûts de lutte (with P-O. Gaumin), Documentary, 58 min, Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée.