Crise urbaine et contrôle social à Pikine. Bornes-fontaines et clientélisme

Abstract

Urban crisis and social control in Pikine. Public fountains and clientelism. The mention of norms andor management replaces talks about outer factors or malfunctions to explain the senegalese urban crisis. This prevents an analysis of the social and political practice under attack. Through the example of Pikine, the Author shows that the bad urban management comes from the social and territorial strategies of the State, revealing one of the functional links between State and society. A detailed analysis of the urban political organization at the level of the Socialist Party and at the level of the municipality points out the networks and the mecanisms used by the State to maintain control over towns that were bound to troubles and marginalization. It is only now, when the State is not any longer able to play its supporting role and when the territorial control mecanisms set up in Pikine by the PS are out of action that a real crisis situation occurs.