L’émergence de nouveaux acteurs de développement : Vers une relecture de l’aménagement du territoire en Tunisie post-révolution
The emergence of new actors of development: Towards a re-reading of land use planning in post-revolution Tunisia

Summary/Abstract: On 14 January 2011, Tunisia, a country in turmoil, forced its former president to leave. Everything is reviewed: the political system, governance, local administration, and centralisation of power. The new constitution, approved in 2014, attempts to mark a break from the first republic: centralised, discriminating, unequal. Instead, it emphasizes the importance of local stakeholders. In Chapter VII, the new constitution provides an important venue for local governance and decentralisation. It even allows for the creation of the Authority for Sustainable Development and the Rights of Future Generations. In Tunisia, with the new constitution and the signing of agreements on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the democratic transition so far has prevented a rethink of a new territorial planning strategy. Urgency remains in the finalisation of national institutions foreseen by the new constitution. Facing this institutional vacuum, various local actors are active in the field at all scales. The proliferation of associations and multiplication of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding actions on social networks have allowed for awareness - raising and/or empowerment actions to serve a territory or a project. This new form of mobilisation, with new demands concerned with collective improvement and common well - being, has highlighted the role of local actors in the development process, whether through awareness campaigns, denouncements of abuse of power or acts of corruption, or even claims to preserve the environment, and others. However, these actions, while unprecedented, remain far from recent ecological struggles, such as those led by the Zadists in France against the implementation of specific projects (Sivens Dam, Notre Dame des Landes Airport, etc.).

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