State, Urban Space, Race
Late Colonialism and Segregation at the Ikoyi Reservation in Lagos, Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8978686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Livsey (0000-0001-8728-7013, Northumbria University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-196 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853722000494 |
| OpenAlex | W4296836473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article studies the Ikoyi reservation in Lagos, Nigeria to assess changing relationships between the colonial state, urban space, and race between 1935 and 1955. Colonial authorities established reservations as special zones to house colonial officials and other white Westerners. The article shows that the Ikoyi reservation was a significant location where a wide range of actors contested relationships between statehood and race. These renegotiations contributed to making a late colonial state, a terminal form of colonial state in which explicitly racialised discourses of statehood and urban space were challenged while implicitly racialised standards and practices often persisted. Through a focus on Ikoyi, the article highlights the important relationships between segregationist projects and late colonial statehood
Colonialism · Economic geography · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Race (biology · Reservation · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · Urban space · White (mutation · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |