Titre : The neoliberal shift of resilience? Practices and political forms of the resilience operationalization in Dakar 

Auteurs : Leclercq Romain,  

Revue : Urban Risks 

Numéro : Issue 1 

Volume : 1 

Date : 2017/12/14 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2018.0202 

ISSN : 2516-1857 

Résumé : The resilience concept and its operationalization within the international policies had been criticized by authors as a way to develop a neoliberal governmentality through the world. Especially in the countries of the global South, its enforcement into adaptation and risk policies would come down to a risk responsibility transfer, from the public authorities to individuals and “communities”, participating thus to the spread of a market rationality within the whole social life. However, few studies are dealing with the concrete effects of adaptation and resilience programs on the targeted
populations. From an ethnography of resilience and territorial adaptation to the flooding risk project set up by the World Bank and the Senegalese State in the Dakar suburbs, this article aims to analyse the responsibility transfers production linked to resilience operationalization. It shows that the configuration of power set up through this programme is more articulated to, than fully integrated to the neoliberal governmentality. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience