التجسس والجاسوسية في مدينة تونس عقب تأسيس مجلس الضبطية (1860-1881)‎

Abstract EN

The Tunisian country lived through an economically, socially and politically stifling crisis during the second half of the 19th century.

the police established in the context of this circumstance.

we relied mainly for this research on the daily police reports between the years 1860 and 1881.

through this article, we sought to clarify the techniques and methods adopted by this security apparatus in the city of Tunis during the second half of the nineteenth century to monitor people and space and resist crime and riots through the function of a spy.

in this work, it became clear to us that the establishment of the police in Tunisia, beginning in the year 1860, created a group of transformations, the most important of which was the de-personalization of surveillance and espionage, intertwined with the entrenchment of the feet of the sovereign nation-state.

this study allowed us to clarify the stakes of espionage and its techniques, and the multiplicity and diversity of challenges between the logic of the "sovereign" state based mainly on the practice of "monopoly", and the logic of the residents of Tunis (Muslims, Jews and Europeans) who are wary of and surrounded by new and modern methods established by reforms and organizations aimed mainly at monitoring and punishing.