%0 Journal Article
%T Insupportables successions Unbearable successions. Political time in Tunisia from Bourguiba to the revolution.
%A Fran£¿ois Siino
%J Temporalit¨¦s
%D 2012
%I Laboratoire Printemps
%X Loin de s¡¯en prendre aux monarchies, les r¨¦volutions du printemps arabe de 2011 ont renvers¨¦ en tout premier lieu des r¨¦gimes s¡¯affichant comme des r¨¦publiques, mais dont les m¨¦canismes de contr le temporel du politique avaient depuis longtemps ¨¦t¨¦ subvertis. La long¨¦vit¨¦ des leaders y ¨¦tait devenue incontr lable et l¡¯on voyait s¡¯y profiler des successions de type familial. Premi¨¨re ¨¤ s¡¯¨ºtre soulev¨¦e, la Tunisie avait connu deux s¨¦quences successives de blocage du temps politique avec Bourguiba et Ben Ali, qui ont tous deux mis en  uvre des processus de d¨¦r¨¦gulation du temps r¨¦publicain. Mais au-del¨¤ des traits communs, les deux s¨¦quences tunisiennes pr¨¦sentent d¡¯ind¨¦niables diff¨¦rences de contextes, de conditions de possibilit¨¦, d¡¯imaginaires politiques et de registres de justifications qui sont mobilis¨¦s. Elles ne peuvent donc gu¨¨re se rattacher ¨¤ un mod¨¨le unique d¡¯autoritarisme arabe ou ¨¤ la tentation du retour ¨¤ un syst¨¨me monarchique arabe traditionnel. ¨¤ l¡¯inverse, ces s¨¦quences peuvent fournir des ¨¦l¨¦ments de r¨¦flexion pour penser plus g¨¦n¨¦ralement les ph¨¦nom¨¨nes du temps politique, de la succession et du chevauchement des int¨¦r¨ºts publics et priv¨¦s, y compris au sein de syst¨¨mes politiques radicalement diff¨¦rents. Far from attacking monarchies, the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 overthrew regimes that appeared like Republics in the first place, but where temporal control of power had long been subverted. The leaders¡¯longevity had become unmanageable and dynastic successions were foreseen. Having experienced two sequences of blocked political time, first with Bourguiba and then with Ben Ali, Tunisia was the first country to rebel. Both leaders implemented deregulation processes of controlled republican time. But beyond their similarities, the two Tunisian sequences present undeniable differences in terms of context, conditions of possibility, political representations and justifications. Therefore, they can hardly be related to a single Arab authoritarian model or the temptation to return to a traditional Arab monarchy. On the contrary, they provide the possibility to reflect more generally upon the phenomenon of political time, succession and entangled public and private interests, in various, radically different political systems.
%K arab revolutions
%K Tunisia
%K political time
%K republican time
%K deregulation
%K Tunisie
%K temps politique
%K temps r¨¦publicain
%K d¨¦r¨¦gulation
%K r¨¦volutions arabes
%U http://temporalites.revues.org/2138