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University of Colorado Boulder · Sociology
Active 2013–2026
Mathieu Hikaru Desan (PhD, University of Michigan, 2016) is a historical sociologist with substantive interests in social theory, political sociology, and cultural sociology. His work has been published in Sociological Theory, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Political Power and Social Theory, History of the Human Sciences, Critical Sociology, and Thesis Eleven. He is currently working on a book manuscript about the practical logic of political conversion, with a focus on the case of French “neo-socialists” who became Nazi collaborators during World War II.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Order, Authority, Nation develops a sociological account of political conversion from left to right through an examination of the historical case of Marcel Déat and the French neo-socialists. Déat and the neo-socialists began their careers in the 1920s as democratic socialists but became fascists and Nazi collaborators by the end of World War II. While existing accounts of this shift emphasize the ideological continuity underlying neo-socialism and fascism, this book centers the fundamentally discontinuous and relational character of political conversion in its analysis. Highlighting the active part played by Déat and the neo-socialists in their own reinvention at different moments of their trajectory, it argues that political conversion is a phenomenon defined not just by a change in belief, but at its core, by how political actors respond to changing political circumstances. This sociological account of a phenomenon often treated polemically offers a unique contribution to the sociology and history of socialism and fascism.
From Socialism to Neo-Socialism
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Marginalization and Disarticulation
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
From Anti-Anti-Fascism to Fascism
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
The Vicissitudes of Neo-Socialism
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-02-20
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