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Arnaud HUC

Career path

  • 2018 - : Participation in the Plate-forme d'observation des projets et stratégies urbaines (Montpellier).
  • 2017 - 2019 : Temporary research teaching assistant at the University of Montpellier.
  • 2014 - 2017: Thesis in Political Science. Subject: Comparative study of the Front National vote in Southeastern and Northern France.

Thesis summary

Regularly regarded as a breeding ground for the Front National, suburban areas in France have gone from the limelight to the shadows. In order to go beyond this ordinary and stigmatizing label, this thesis aims to study in detail the Front National vote in the suburban world. Using four towns in the Pas-de-Calais and Bouches-du-Rhône regions as a starting point, the sociology of Front National voters is examined through comparative research. In addition to this sociological study, the aim is to explain why certain suburban areas seem to generate a vote that some describe as "withdrawal". The various methods used show that in suburban areas, as elsewhere, the Front National vote is not a matter of course, but the result of particular social, residential and ideological trajectories. The FN vote presents a different, even contradictory face in the Pas-de-Calais and Bouches-du-Rhône départements, contrasting a working-class northern electorate with a more affluent one in the Mediterranean departments.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • Forthcoming: Huc Arnaud, "FN du Nord contre FN du Sud? Analyse socio-géographique des électorats Le Pen en 2017", Revue Français de Science politique, to be published in April 2019.
  • Forthcoming: Huc Arnaud, Négrier Emmanuel, "L'Occitanie à l'épreuve des cultures politiques" (provisional title), Pôle Sud, 2019/1, no. 50.
  • Huc Arnaud, "Autour de deux ouvrages traitant du vote FN dans une perspective localisée : Violaine Girard, Le vote FN au village, et Christèle Marchand-Lagier, Le vote FN", "Lectures", Pôle Sud, 2018/2, no. 49, p. 122-125.
  • Huc Arnaud et al, "Two political regions in one? Les élections 2017 en Occitanie", Pôle Sud 2018/1, no. 48, pp. 113-135.
  • Huc Arnaud, Négrier Emmanuel, "LE FRONT NATIONAL, DE BIAIS... Autour de trois ouvrages traitant autrement du phénomène frontiste : Nicolas Lebourg, Lettre aux Français qui croient que 5 ans d'extrême droite remettraient la France debout, Paris, Les Échappés, 2016, 132 p. Thierry Beinstinge, Faux nègres, Paris, Fayard, 2014, 422 p. René Escudié, Chronique des Journées de la Honte, Tome 1 & 2, Bookelis; 2015, 1242 p.", "Lectures", Pôle Sud, 2016/2, no.45, p. 155-170.
  • Huc Arnaud, "André Donzel, LE NOUVEL ESPRIT DE MARSEILLE, Paris, L'Harmattan, Coll. "Questions Urbaines", 2014, 176 p.", "Lectures", Pôle Sud, 2016/1, no.44, p. 165-175.

Articles in collective works

  • Forthcoming: David Gouard, Arnaud Huc, Jean-Paul Volle, Stéphane Coursière, "De l'occitanisme à l'Occitanie : Territoires, électeurs et cultures politiques" (working title), in Vincent Simoulin, Emmanuel Négrier, L'invention de l'Occitanie, (To be published end 2020).

Conference papers

  • Huc Arnaud, "Les nouveaux élus locaux frontistes, des représentants "sur-politiciés" pour repoliticier les assemblées locales? - Étude comparée de deux élus municipaux Rassemblement Bleu Marine", Congrès AFSP 2017, ST36 - Le pouvoir local, entre politisation et dépolitisation, 2017, 12p.
  • Huc Arnaud, Smyrl Marc, "Suburban Populism - A French/American Comparison", Congress After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization and Life on the Planet's Periphery, Toronto, 2017, 22p.

Diplomas

  • 2017 Thesis by PhD, defended on December 13, 2017 at the University of Montpellier (Jury: Emmanuel Négrier, Nonna Mayer, Florence Haegel, Alain Faure, Paul Alliès, Christophe Roux)
  • 2014 Master 2 Science Politique Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Université Montpellier I - Mention Très Bien
  • 2013 Master 1 Political Science at the University of Montpellier I
  • 2012 Bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
  • 2009 General Baccalaureate in Science, specializing in Engineering Sciences.

Prizes, distinctions and Coordination or participation in research projects

  • 2015 Regional Council Prize: Best work on a subject of regional interest awarded for the dissertation on the sociology of the Front National vote in the suburban commune of Frontignan.