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Research Interest(s): Sociology of work, organizations, and the economy; sociology of the creative industries; socio-history of art; history of the social sciences
Discipline(s): Sociology, History
Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions
Biography
A university professor, sociologist of the industrial and artistic worlds, and historian of the social sciences, Gwenaële Rot focuses her work on the analysis of work in practice across various sectors (automotive, nuclear and petrochemical industries, underground public transportation, audiovisual) and different regions (Ile-de-France, the South and Occitanie regions, Morocco). She is particularly interested in the
links between technology and work, work temporalities and spaces, and work and globalization.
In recent years, she has been developing a major research program dedicated to the sociology of artistic labor and art history:
- In the sociology of art, she studies changes in work within the
film and audiovisual industry, particularly the impact of
digital technologies (virtual reality, artificial intelligence) on the
transformation of professions and the methods of producing images and sound (feature films or television series).
- Together with François Vatin, she has undertaken a long-term
socio-historical research project on the links between art and industry, art and politics, and art in the city. Her
research also takes the form of action research aimed at raising awareness among public and private stakeholders regarding the challenges of preserving the industrial and artistic heritage of the 20th century.
EDUCATION
2012
Qualification to Supervise Research (HDR) in Sociology from EHESS (supervisor: Sabine Chalvon-Demersay).
2000
PhD in Sociology from the IEP in Paris: Renault Factories Facing the Challenge of Modernization, a contribution to the sociology of the workshop, supervised by Erhard Friedberg.
1994
Master’s degree in Sociology from the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
1992
Agrégation in Economics and Management
1990–1992
Trainee professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
1990–1991
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Private Law from the University of Paris I.
Current Research
Art and Industry (SAB)
Teaching
- School of Management and Impact, Master’s in Communication, Media, and Creative Industries, Sociology of the Creative Industries (since 2024)
- Research Master’s in History: Work, Consumption, and Leisure, 19th–20th Centuries (with Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel and/or Marion Fontaine) 2016–2026.
- Undergraduate program, Reims campus, first year, Introductory Course in General Sociology.
- Second year of the undergraduate program in Paris and Reims: course in sociology of work and/or course in visual sociology (starting in 2027)
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Founding member and executive committee member of RT 23 of the French Sociological Association (Work, Activity, Technology).
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Renault Group History Society.
- Member of the Scientific Council of Sciences Po (2017–2024)
- Member of the editorial board of the Revue française de sociologie (until 2024)
- Member of Section 40 of the CNRS National Committee (2008–2012)
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Images du travail, travail des images.
- Co-director of the Professional Master’s program in Work Analysis, Organization, and Employment Management (ATOGE) at the University of Nanterre (with Guillemette de
Larquier (2010–2014)
Editorial Activity
- Member of the editorial board of the Revue française de sociologie.
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Images du travail, travail des images.
publications
- François Vatin et Gwenaële Rot, Le poème mécanique de Raymond Gosselin, Trouville, iIlustria, 2025.
- Gwenaële Rot (dir.), Travailler aux chantiers, Paris, Hermann, 2023.
- Gwenaële Rot, Planter le décor. Une sociologie des tournages, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2019.
- Gwenaële Rot et François Vatin, Reynold Arnould. Une poétique de l'industrie, Paris, Presses de Nanterre, 2019.
- Gwenaële Rot et François Vatin (dir.), L’esthétique des 30
glorieuses, Trouville, Illustria, 2021. - Gwenaële Rot et François Vatin, In the flow. Working in chemical and nuclear power plants, Presses des mines, 2021.
- Anni Borzeix et Gwenaële Rot, Sociologie du travail. Genèse d’une discipline, naissance d’une revue, Presses universitaires de Nanterre, 2010.
- Gwenaële Rot, Sociologie de l’atelier. Renault, le travail ouvrier, le Sociologue., Toulouse, Octarès, 2006.