La résilience comme injonction politique post-Xynthia.

Instrumentalisation étatique ou territorialisation des risques de catastrophe ?

For the past decade, the figure of “natural disaster” has come back with force, mobilizing in return the notion of “territories’ resilience”. In this context, this article aims to analyze the etiological and axiological substructures on which the French central political power relies when referring to these two concepts. In this respect, the dramatic consequences of the storm Xynthia, which hit the French Atlantic littoral in 2010, have revealed a noticeable inflexion of the public policies of flooding/marine submersion [...]