Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne
Research projects
Periurban land, power struggles and decentralization at the margin of the city in Niamey/Niger
| Research fields |
Political ecologies Cities, policies and environment Political Ecology Gouvernance urbaine Urban political ecology Decentralization / Governance |
| Keywords |
Decentralization Public policy Urban governance Social networks Governance Political ecology Ethnography |
| Funding | University of Lausanne and SNSF (DocMobility Grant, 2013/14) |
| Duration | November 2010 - October 2016 |
| Website | http://wp.unil.ch/allezsavoir/speculation-sous-le-soleil-nigerien/ |
| Researchers |
Véron René (Supervision) Meyer Ursula (Doctoral student) |
This PhD thesis, completed in november 2016, focused on governance of urban land issues in the context of both the political decentralisation and a mostly uncontrolled urbanisation processes in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic. Taking into account that the new decentralisation (since 2004) is not taking place on a blank spot, but in strongly pre-structured contexts, relations between old and new actors (municipalities, organs of the central State, traditional chieftancy, economic actors, autochthonous land owners) are analysed in a perspective of better understanding how negotiations, conflicts and adaptations create new forms of local governance and caracterize exercise of power through space.