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The same argument has been made by Christophe Guilly, another geographer, this time from France, starting about 3-4 years ago. From his wiki page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Guilluy):

> In France, Christophe Guilluy has got notability with his theory about la France périphérique (peripheral France). In his different books he stated that a great part of the political elite has lost contact to the popular classes mainly situated in rural France, which he defined as the France périphérique. Guilluy has also tried to explain the rise of the National Front in France. In the international Academia his work is currently unknown.[1] Guilluy has also tried to explain the vote for Trump with the existence of a peripheral America in an interview in the French magazine Le Point.[2]

I’ve just finished reading one of his books, he totally deserves to be better known in the Anglo-Saxon world because he makes a lot of sense in what he’s saying.




Should English speakers who are not Anglo-Saxon also read him? Or is he only relevant in to the communities that descent largely from English settlers and have never had to deal with the political consequences of influence from for instance Celtic or Asian or African communities?


In these parts of Europe from where I’m from “the Anglo-Saxon world” is used as a (apparently not so good) metaphor for the United States and Britain, because that’s where most of the “intellectual” books written in English are published (the big universities’ publishing houses in US + NYC, OxBridge+London+maybe Edinburgh). It probably sucks for some people who are from Cornwall or the Isle of Man, but in the end it’s just an expression.


It's a kind of metonymy; you don't take it literally. Like if someone says 'we don't want another Chernobyl' it does not mean literally they don't want a replica of a town in Ukraine. It means they don't want to have a situation where an nuclear disaster could happen.




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