{UAH} Cfp: A Private Escape? A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Lagos and Eko Atlantic

Should Uganda build gated cities for the rich to sleep well?

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference
Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities
June 25-27, 2020
Lagos, Nigeria


PANEL PROPOSITION

A Private Escape?
A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Lagos and Eko Atlantic

Organisers: Elizabeth Cobbett (University of East Anglia, UK) and Lynn
Schler (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

The new development of Eko Atlantic, built inside the Great Wall of
Lagos, creates chic, expensive, exclusive, 'smart-city' urban space.
Eko is a completely 100% private city built on landed claimed from the
Atlantic Ocean. What began as an effort to address an environmental
crisis to save Victoria Island has morphed into gated enclave for
international capital and the super wealthy. Marketed as a
"global-hub," the project reflects current trends of financial and
political elites retreating to fortresses where they are protected
from both rising seas and political turmoil through "Free Zone" status
and privatized infrastructure. But at what price for Lagos?

This panel seeks to engage in a broad and critical examination of Eko
Altantic and its multifaceted relationships to Lagos, Nigeria, West
Africa, Africa and the global. We invite submissions to this panel
from a variety of disciplines and research angles. Below are questions
shaping this dialogue and research:

 What are the political, financial, material and social power
structures/apparatuses in place that provide the privileged of Eko
Atlantic with a refuge from Nigeria?
 What implications do these power structures and apparatuses have on
politics and governance in Nigeria at all scales?
 What are the political, economic, social, and cultural implications
of this gated city that has reclaimed and privatized what was once
Lagos' most popular coastline?
 How will Eko Altantic engage with, disrupt or enhance the global
flows of people, workers, artists, money, ideas, tech, goods, food,
and transport that have come to define Lagos as the epicentre of
Nigeria and West Africa?
 How are Lagos' citizens experiencing and interpreting the behemoth
of private capital and power rising in plain sight but beyond their
reach?
 How can we situate Eko Atlantic in broader trends of global elites
shielding themselves from climate change?


Please send your abstracts of 200 words and 5 keywords by 15 December
2019 to both Elizabeth Cobbett e.cobbett@uea.ac.uk and Lynn Schler
lynnsch@bgu.ac.il

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