Public lighting as revealing the relationship between public administration and citizens. ; L'éclairage public comme révélateur des relations entre administration publique et citoyens
International audience ; The communication deals with the dynamics of citizens' appropriation about issues related to consumption of public lighting energy. It emphasizes the analysis of public action, in terms of the energy consumption and the reduction of electricity consumption from street lighting in a large city from western France. Moreover, this analysis focuses on users' representations about public lighting and electricity consumption related to this service. It establishes the device of relationship between policies of public lighting, technical features and urban people behavior regarding to local public action. The analysis of interactions in this device demonstrates that the involvement of citizens is limited. There are various reasons to this divestment. One of it is a missing of technical knowledge concerning the organization and operation of street lighting. Another reason is related to the social and technical configurations in which the users don't consider public lighting as a common good, and they have no control on the electrical system and they haven't knowledge about it. Public policies of lighting builds a definition of public spaces and their uses that influence the users' perception about public lighting. In the same time, the analysis of the behavior of users influence policy actions in public spaces, even if users directly claim little things for lighting public. Balance occurs: on the one hand, users distant about decisions energy of public spaces, the other, a political administration strengthened to operate alone in those areas. This communication explain the complexity of the different configurations of public policy, of their technical, political and social impacts, accentuated by the diversity of actors involved in the whole process of operation of street lighting. ; La communication porte sur les dynamiques d'appropriation des citoyens à propos desquestions de consommations d'énergies liées aux éclairages publics. Elle privilégiel'analyse des actions menées au titre des ...