摘要：Drawing on empirical fieldwork carried out in Nouakchott, capital city of Mauritania, this paper focuses on the effects of slum upgrading programs. It shows how public authorities, in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals, and supported by the International institutions (such as the World Bank), implement slum clearance programs. Analyzing a resettlement project, we will demonstrate that these programs very often lead to evictions and forced resettlements of slum dwellers in faraway urban fringes, with property land titling in return. Shedding light on the good governance principles, we will show how they become formidable instrument in order to lift away undesirable people from central and strategic spaces. This Mauritanian example highlights the absence of real mobilisation against the unfair displacement. Resistance is scarce and limited to the small scale, showing the impossibility to by-pass the local level and the rise of new political frontiers. This case illustrates the “post-political city” (Swyngedouw, 2009), characterized by complex urban governance.
关键词：slum upgrading program ; forced resettlements ; urban governance ; land titling ; mobilisation ; Global South ; Nouakchott ; Mauritania
