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Mathieu Fulla

Tenured Lecturer, HDR

Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): History of the Left in Europe (20th-21st centuries); History of the State; History of Capitalism and the ‘Neoliberal Phenomenon’

Discipline(s): History

Research Group(s): Government. Institutions, Knowledge, Norms, Experiences. Social Actors, Movements, & Groups

Geographical Area(s): Western Europe

Country(ies): France

Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Biography

Mathieu Fulla is a Faculty member at the Center for History at Sciences Po. His main research areas are the history of the European Left in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (he notably published Les socialistes français et l'économie. Une histoire économique du politique, Presses de Sciences Po, 2016), the history of the state, and the history of capitalism and its "financialization" from the 1970s on. He recently published two edited volumes: Mathieu Fulla, Marc Lazar (eds.), European Socialists and the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Palgrave, 2020; Michele Di Donato, Mathieu Fulla (eds.), Leftist Internationalisms. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Last Publications

  • "L’expert et le politique. Les gauches socialistes entre l’international et l’État (Europe de l’Ouest, XXe siècle)", habilitation à diriger des recherches en histoire, Sorbonne-Université, décembre 2024 (garant: Laurent Warlouzet). Cette habilitation comporte notamment un mémoire inédit intitulé "Les socialistes ouest-européens face au choc du global. Entre accommodements, appropriations et résistances aux logiques néolibérales (années 1968-1997)".
  • Mathieu Fulla et Michele Di Donato (coord.), "Les gauches et l'international au XXe siècle", Parlement[s], 2024/3, n°40.
  • Mathieu Fulla, Sarah Kolopp. Changer les hommes pour changer la vie ? : Contribution à une sociologie politique des nominations : l'exemple des banques nationalisées en 1982. Revue Française de Science Politique, 2023, 73 (3), pp. 421-447. <halshs-04684717>
  • Mathieu Fulla. The Neoliberal Turn that Never Was: Breaking with the Standard Narrative of Mitterrand's tournant de la rigueur. Contemporary European History, 2023, pp.1-22. ⟨10.1017/S0960777322000881⟩. ⟨hal-04000208⟩
  • Michele Di Donato, Mathieu Fulla. Leftist Internationalisms. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 9781350247918. ⟨10.5040/9781350252523⟩. ⟨hal-04011410⟩

Projects

Ongoing project on writing a political history of the financialisation of capitalism in Western Europe.

Thesis topic

“French Socialists and the Economy (1945–1981). An Economic History of Politics.”

Teaching

(Selection)

  • History of contemporary worlds in the 20th and 21st centuries: rights, security and insecurity;
  • The European left and the economy in the 20th and 21st centuries;
  • Political history. Cultures and identities in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries;
  • Master's thesis writing workshop

AWARDS

  • Prix Pierre Mauroy (2018)
  • Prix François Mitterrand (2006)

Editorial Activity

Editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Histoire@Politique, published on OpenEdition.

publications

  • « From dark to light: the fate of two European Socialist employment initiatives in an age of austerity », dans Andrew Williams and Mélanie Torrent (eds.), European Socialist Across Borders: Transnational Cooperation and Alternative Visions of Europe after 1945, London, University of London Press, 2025, p. 223-248.
     
  • « Western European Socialists Facing the Neoliberal Offensive: Between Resistance and Resignation (1979-1985) », dans Marc Lazar (ed.), Left. Crisis and Challenges of the European Left (End of Twentieth Century-2020s), Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Annali, Feltrinelli Editore Milano, 2024, p. 47-60.
     
  • « Put (Southern) Europe to Work: The Nordic Turn of European Socialists in the early 1990s », dans Granadino, Alan, Nygård, Stefan and Stadius, Peter (eds.), Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism: The History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century, London, Routledge, 2022, p. 48-66.
     
  • Mathieu Fulla and Marc Lazar (eds.), Socialism, Socialists and the state in Western Europe, Palgrave (coll. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movement series), 2020.
     
  • « Quand Pierre Mauroy résistait avec rigueur au ‘néo-libéralisme’ (1981-1984) », Vingtième siècle. Revue d’histoire, n°138, avril-juin 2018, p. 49-63.
     
  • « L’"économiste" en politique. Les experts socialistes français des années 1970 », Revue française de science politique, vol. 66, n°5, octobre 2016, p. 773-800.
     
  • Les socialistes français et l'économie (1944-1981). Une histoire économique du politique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2016.

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