Short Project description
This doctoral dissertation tries to question -and provide a critical analysis of- the current modes of water management. These modes, characterized (especially, but not only) by “depoliticization”, are also based on the logic of “modern water” and on an orientation towards a “water-demand management” policy. In addition, this doctoral thesis attempts to understand how certain “fatalistic” discourses (relating for example to the “water crisis” or “water scarcity”) can serve multiple logics/interests, and, at the same time, reproduce and create inequality(ies).
Keywords, main expertise
Water Governance, Institutional bricolage, (de)politicization
Funding bodies
Fondation Louvain (Louvain4water), Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI)
UCLouvain promotor(s)
Prof. Dr. Vincent Legrand
Prof. Dr. Marnik Vanclooster
UCLouvain researcher(s)
Kais Bouazzi
External partners
Faculté des sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales de Tunis (Tunisia)
Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Medjez El Bab (Tunisia)