Stéphane François (born 1 January 1973) is a French

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

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

conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy (generally by powerful sinister groups, often political in motivation), when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources: * ...

political ecology Political ecology is the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes. Political ecology differs from apolitical ecological studies by politicizing environmental issues and pheno ...

and countercultures.

Life and career

Born on 1 January 1973, Stéphane François attended Lille 2 University of Health and Law, where he obtained a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in political science after a doctoral thesis on the "Paganism of the

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

." François is a professor of political science at the

University of Mons The University of Mons (, ) is a Belgian university located in the city of Mons, founded in 2009 by merging the Engineering Faculty of Mons (FPMs) and the University of Mons-Hainaut. The merging of the institutions was achieved following a g ...

. An associate member of the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

, 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 . * ''Géopolitique des extrêmes droites. Logiques identitaires et monde multipolaire'', Le cavalier bleu, 2022 . * ''Une avant-garde d'extrême droite. Contre-culture, conservatisme radical et tentation moderniste'', éditions de la Lanterne, 2022 . * ''La Nouvelle Droite et le nazisme, une histoire sans fin. Révolution conservatrice allemande, national-socialisme et alt-right'', Le Bord de l'eau, 2024 .

References

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