I am a sociologist, currently a senior lecturer at the University of Lille, attached to the ‘Urban Cultures and Societies’ team at the Centre for Sociological and Political Research in Paris (Cresppa, UMR 7217), and associated with the ‘International Migration and Minorities’ unit (U08) at the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED).

I am also co-editor of the online journal Contretemps, and host a podcast devoted to issues of the far right (in France and beyond), fascism (historical and contemporary) and anti-fascism, entitled ‘Minuit dans le siècle’ (Midnight in the Century), on the Spectre platform.

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My research has focused in particular on the formation of inequalities (class, gender and race), the educational and socio-professional trajectories of young people from working-class backgrounds, contemporary transformations in the education system, and the mechanisms of disqualification of the working classes and the resistance they provoke.

On these issues, I defended a thesis in sociology – under the supervision of Alain Chenu – at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (2010), from which I also graduated (2005), and published the book La domination scolaire. Sociologie de l’enseignement professionnel et de son public(Presses Universitaires de France, 2012).

I have recently refocused my work on the study of ethno-racial inequalities in the labour market and the trajectories of immigrants and descendants of immigrants in French society, particularly in terms of analysing the logic of racialisation and with the aim of better understanding the role that racism plays in French social structure.

As part of this research, an article co-authored with Mathieu Ichou was recently published in the Revue française de sociologie on ethno-racial wage inequalities. Other articles are currently being written.

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I am also working on neo-fascist dynamics, particularly from the perspective of analysing the political effects of neoliberal counter-reforms, the process of authoritarian hardening of capitalist states, the rise of nationalism under the effect of intensifying racism (particularly Islamophobia), theories of fascism, and the sociology of the contemporary far right.

I published a book on these issues in autumn 2018 with La Découverte, entitled La Possibilité du fascisme (The Possibility of Fascism). This book will be published on 15 May 2025 in a new, completely revised and greatly expanded edition, under the title: Comment le fascisme gagne la France(How Fascism is Winning in France) (again with La Découverte). This book will be published in English on 26 August 2025 under the title Why Fascism is on the Rise. From Macron to Le Pen, by Verso.

I have also published three other works on these issues: Face à la menace fasciste. Sortir de l’autoritarisme(Facing the Fascist Threat: Escaping Authoritarianism) (with Ludivine Bantigny, published by Textuel in 2021); Défaire le racisme, affronter le fascisme(with Omar Slaouti, published by La Dispute in 2022), and La Nouvelle Internationale fasciste (published by Textuel, also in 2022); as well as numerous articles.

More recently, I coordinated the Institut La Boétie book entitled: Extrême droite, la résistible ascension (Amsterdam), published in September 2024.

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I translated the book Class Counts by Erik Olin Wright, a leading American sociologist specialising in social classes. The translation was published in January 2024 by Amsterdam, under the title Why Class Matters, in the ‘Lignes rouges’ collection, which I co-edit with Isabelle Garo, Stathis Kouvélakis and Laurent Lévy.

A few years ago, I also contributed to the translation of Michael Burawoy’s book Conversations avec Bourdieu (as well as the introduction to the book), published by Amsterdam in 2019. I have also translated numerous texts from English and Portuguese.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the military uprising that brought down the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal and ushered in a period of social and political upheaval, I published an introductory book on the history of the Portuguese revolution (1974-1975) for Éditions sociales.

Finally, I was a member of the collective Acides (Approches Critiques et Interdisciplinaires des Dynamiques de l’Enseignement Supérieur), which worked on the logic and effects of neoliberal policies imposed on higher education. Made up of economists and sociologists, this collective published a book with Éditions Raisons d’agir entitled Arrêtons les frais. For free and emancipatory higher education, the introduction to which can be read here.