Jules NAUDET
Biography:
His current work looks at the sociability and social networks of members of the elite in India and in France. He notably conducted a participant ethnography of elite sociability in India. His observations reveal how elite parties and gatherings are driven by the ceaseless collision of multiple motivations and agendas and how these clashes allow for the unfolding of instrumental strategies that shape the opportunity structure, opening paths of mobility to some and shutting down opportunities for others. More recently, Naudet, along with Bruno Cousin (CEE, Sciences Po), has also explored elite sociability in the French context through an ethnography of the Paris inner-circle of power.
Publications
- Surinder Jodhka, Jules Naudet, ‘Oxford Handbook of Caste in Modern and Contemporary South Asia’, co-edited with Surinder Jodhka, Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2022).
- Surinder Jodhka, Jules Naudet, 2019. ‘Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality in Contemporary India’, co-edited with Surinder Jodhka, Oxford University Press, ‘Exploring India’s Elite” book series.
- Jules Naudet, Adrien Allorant, Mathieu Ferry, 2018. “Heirs, Corporate Aristocrats and ‘Meritocrats’: The Social Space of Top CEOs and Chairmen in India.” Socio-Economic Review, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp. 307–339.
- Mathieu Ferry, Olivier Roueff, Jules Naudet,2018. “Seeking the Indian social space. A multidimensional portrait of the stratifications of Indian society”, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online]. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4462.
- Jules Naudet, Claire-Lise Dubost, 2017. “The Indian Exception: The Densification of the Network of Corporate Interlocks and the Specificities of the Indian Business System (2000-2012)”, Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 15, n°2, p. 405–434 [doi: 10.1093/ser/mwv035] http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/26/ser.mwv035.short?rss=1