Meditation in urban Tunisia
Work on the Tunisian countryside is sufficiently rare for us to welcome the publication, in 2020, by Karthala and IRMC editions, in a revised version, of Mathilde Fautras' doctoral thesis on rural transformations in the Sidi Bouzid region ( Central Tunisia), thesis defended in 2016 in Paris x-Nanterre. The work listed here will hold readers' attention all the more because it concerns a region that is readily considered to be the "cradle" of the Tunisian revolution with the immolation by fire in front of the seat of the governorate, on December 17, 2010, by Mohamed Bouazizi, a young fruit seller from the region . What relationship can be established between the popular uprisings that followed this tragic event and the agricultural and rural transformations in the countryside of Sidi Bouzid? 2This question is undoubtedly a guiding thread for the research of the author who takes an interdisciplinary approach to answer it. Thus, Mr. Fautras willingly mobilizes the c...