Repenser les infrastructures à l’ère de la crise climatique : héritages hydrauliques du Rajasthan (Inde) pour un rapport durable au territoire et au vivant

In a context marked by worsening climatic, ecological and social crises, this article offers a critical reading of the modern infrastructural paradigm, through the study of hydraulic infrastructure in India, and more specifically in the state of Rajasthan. Using an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of anthropology, geography and architectural theory, the author examines the political, ontological and spatial imaginaries that underpin contemporary infrastructure. The article highlights the social and environmental consequences of the centralised, extractive hydraulic planning inherited from the colonial period and intensified after independence. Through the analysis of vernacular forms such as the johads and the Chand Baori, the article explores devices co-produced with the dynamics of the living, embodying a non-dual relationship between humans, territory and environments. Drawing on the work of Philippe Descola, Antoine Picon, Vandana Shiva and Bruno Latour, the author calls for an epistemological and aesthetic rethinking of infrastructural design. She proposes that infrastructure should no longer be seen as autonomous technical objects, but as situated cultural mediations capable of supporting an ecology of interdependence.