Stéphane François (born 1 January 1973) is a French

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

who specializes on radical right-wing movements. He also studies

conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources: * * * * The term has a nega ...

, political ecology and countercultures.

Life and career

Born on 1 January 1973, Stéphane François attended

Lille 2 University of Health and Law The Lille 2 University of Health and Law (french: Université Lille 2 : Droit et Santé) was a French university for health, sports, management and law. It was located in Lille and was part of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE ...

, where he obtained a PhD in political science after a doctoral thesis on the "Paganism of the

Nouvelle Droite The Nouvelle Droite (; en, "New Right"), sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The Nouvelle Droite is at the origin of the wider European New Right (ENR). Vario ...

."''Les Paganismes de la Nouvelle Droite (1980-2004)''
thèse de science politique sous la direction de Christian-Marie Wallon-Leducq, Université Lille II, 29 septembre 2005. An associate member of the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

, he has been a member of the ''Observatoire des radicalités politiques'' ("Observatory of political radicalism") since 2014, and a researcher in the ''Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités'' ("Societies, Religions, Secularism Group").'''' François is also a lecturer in contemporary history and political science at the University of Valenciennes.

Works

* ''La Musique europaïenne. Ethnographie politique d’une subculture de droite'', preface by

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, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2006. * ''Le Néo-paganisme : une vision du monde en plein essor'' (preface by

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), Apremont, 2007 . * ''Les Néo-paganismes et la Nouvelle Droite : pour une autre approche'' (preface by Philippe Raynaud), Archè, 2008 * ''Le complot cosmique. Théorie du complot, ovnis, théosophie et extrémistes politiques'' (with Emmanuel Kreis), Archè, 2010 . * ''L'Ésotérisme, la « tradition » et l'initiation. Essai de définition'', Grammata, 2011 * ''La Nouvelle Droite et la tradition'', Archè, 2012 * ''À droite de l'acacia : de la nature réelle de la Franc-maçonnerie ?'', La Hutte, 2012 * ''L'écologie politique : Une vision du monde réactionnaire ? Réflexions sur le positionnement idéologique de quelques valeur'', Cerf, 2012 * ''La Modernité en procès : éléments d'un refus du monde moderne'', Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2013 . * ''Au-delà des vents du Nord : l'extrême-droite française, le pôle Nord et les Indo-Européens'' (preface by Laurent Olivier), Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2014 . *''Histoire de la haine identitaire : mutations et diffusions de l'altérophobie'' (with

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), Presses universitaires de Valenciennes 2016 . * ''Le Retour de Pan : panthéisme, néo-paganisme et antichristianisme dans l'écologie radicale'', Archè, 2016 . *''Le Service public et les idéologies politiques'' (with Emmanuel Cherrier), Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2016 . * * ''Le rejet de l'Occident : l'ésotérisme, le complotisme et le refus de la société libérale'', Paris, Dervy, 2020 . * ''La Nouvelle Droite et ses dissidences : identité, écologie et paganisme'', Lormont, Le Bord de l'Eau, 2021 . * ''Les Vert-bruns. L'écologie de l'extrême droite française'', Le Bord de l'Eau, 2022 .

References

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