Today's Tunisia political subjectivities. The emergence of new local movements and actors

In this paper, I would like to relate on Tunisian local political movements and actors that have grown up after 2011. Their main characteristics are the rootedness in local contexts such as specific quarters or municipalities, and the claim for active citizenship. The recent empowerment of Tunisian civil society goes together with the emergence of local committees and various associations in several quarters and municipalities. This innovative dimension constitutes a multi-sited democracy lab, locally based, breeding ground for a new political subjectivity, which has to be intended as a complex of perceptions, actions, thoughts, fears regarding politics and society. Tunisian youths are the main actors engaged in this panorama. They are looking for new original political languages provided with social and cultural legitimacy, with which they try to involve ordinary people. From the partial results of an ongoing ethnography sited in the urban area of the Grand Tunis, attention will be paid to the individual experience of new young activists. The germination of their political engagement, the perception of continuity and transformation of their “Self”, affinities and fractures within the peer group and the family, their adherence to shared norms and values will be all subjects of reflexion.INGLESE