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Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
Abstract
Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness structured colonial governance, urban planning, public health policies, and relationships between colonists and native Lagosians.
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“echoes colonial moralizing narratives, in this instance in reference to hygiene, which throughout Western colonial history was used as a tool to maintain social, economic, and political control over ‘dirty natives’ who might spread disease to the colonizers (Newell 2020).”
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- Authors
- Newell, S.
- Corresponding author
- Newell, Stephanie
- Venue
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2020
- OpenAlex
- W4242933269
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 9
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- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Duke University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › African history and culture studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine and Tropical Health
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › German Colonialism and Identity Studies
- Keywords
- dirt, cleanliness, colonialism, postcolonialism, Lagos, urban space, colonial administration, urban planning, public health policy, sanitation
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