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Geographies and entanglements of governance: making marketplaces governable during pandemic times in Lagos, Nigeria

Onyanta Adama & Ilda Lindell

International Development Planning Review2025https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.8article
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Abstract

This article examines how diverse and entangled governance configurations shaped local pandemic responses in marketplaces in Lagos, Nigeria, drawing upon conceptualisations of hybrid governance, twilight institutions and governmentality. Faced with many challenges, local governments delegated the implementation and monitoring of pandemic regulations to marketplace associations and traditional leaders, whose mandate and authority expanded in several markets. However, governance arrangements and relations varied greatly across urban space, reflecting the diversity of place-specific institutional landscapes in the markets and shaping diverse outcomes. The presence or absence of centralised structures (associational or traditional) in the markets contributed to varied experiences of compliance across the markets, although compliance was also shaped by state enforcement, self-regulation and economic necessity. Overall, the pandemic exposed the uneven governance capacities across different markets, revealing how historical relationships between the state, associations and traditional leaders continue to shape market regulation in times of crisis. The article is based on qualitative interviews with vendors, and association and traditional leaders in five markets as well as with government officials.

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@article{onyanta2025,
  title        = {{Geographies and entanglements of governance: making marketplaces governable during pandemic times in Lagos, Nigeria}},
  author       = {Onyanta Adama & Ilda Lindell},
  journal      = {International Development Planning Review},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.8},
}

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