Projets de mise en valeur du local et redéfinitions de la citoyenneté en Tunisie post-2011

• Main Authors: Irène Carpentier, Julien Dutour
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: CNRS Éditions 2020-12-01
• Series: L’Année du Maghreb
• Subjects: local citizenship; entrepreneurship; territory; local resources; marginality.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/7021

In Tunisia, the protests of late 2010 have opened a debate on development models and management of local resources issues. Indeed, it highlighted the limits of national development policies implemented in these regions of the interior and the south. In this context, there is a diversity of individual and collective actions on a local scale. The creation of projects aims to respond to the challenge of not only political, but also economic and socio-territorial marginalization. This dynamic of projects discuss the contours of a citizenship questioned by the protest dynamics of 2010 - 2011. Thus, the creation of associative and entrepreneurial projects is based on the promotion of local resources, and participates in reshaping the relationship between individuals and the national community, particularly through the affirmation of participation in a process of local development. This project dynamic questions the role of local anchoring in the creation of bonds redefining citizenship. Through the cases of the territories of Gabes, Tozeur and Sidi Bouzid, we will see how the dynamics of setting up local projects contribute to assert a will to claim to be a citizen by redefining the terms of a legitimacy which draws its resources from a deepened local political, social and economic integration.