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Article Dans Une Revue Justice spatiale = Spatial justice Année : 2015

Land injustices, contestations and community protest in the rural areas of Sidi Bouzid (Tunisia): the roots of the " revolution " ?

Mathilde Fautras

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This paper shows the links between land inequalities in rural areas and collective actions, through the prism of spatial justice. It is based on the analysis of a social struggle engaged in the region of Sidi Bouzid (Tunisia) in 2009-2010, after the land dispossession of an agricultural producer. The hypothesis is that land issues were implicit in the Ben Ali's regime protests which contributed to his demise in January 2011. Comparing this land dispossession case to the general land access context in the centre of Tunisia helps in underlining the differences between injustice visions, and to understand for what justice the protests took place. These protests alone do not explain the importance of the mobilizations, but they reveal a part of the revolutionnary process' deep roots. They also call to give these rural and agricultural areas and their inhabitants the place they take up regarding wealth production and socio-political voices.
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Mathilde Fautras. Land injustices, contestations and community protest in the rural areas of Sidi Bouzid (Tunisia): the roots of the " revolution " ?. Justice spatiale = Spatial justice, 2015, Right to the Village, 7, http://www.jssj.org/article/injustices-foncieres-contestations-et-mobilisations-collectives-dans-les-espaces-ruraux-de-sidi-bouzid-tunisie-aux-racines-de-la-revolution/. ⟨halshs-01512398⟩
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