ABSTRACT
In June 2019, a group of Yellow Vests and their families set to work constructing a cabin on a holiday Saints Day. It was a Thursday, a welcome break during the working week, which many Parisians converted into a long weekend. The nondescript barren wasteland upon which the Yellow Vests chose to build was almost a metaphor for the deindustrialization in the brownfield sites so prevalent in the northern banlieues. Immense tractor trailers, their drivers sleeping on the front seats, surrounded the cabin protectively.
