Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in 2012 on British Nigerian young women who have gone to boarding school in Nigeria and returned to attend university in the UK, I use the concept of third space as a heuristic device for understanding their transnational subjectivities and practices. I argue that, for some, this third space is a transgressive one in which they can craft alternative subjectivities and narratives about African culture and political economy. Applying insights from decolonial theory, I seek to build on the transgressive nature of this third space. In positioning themselves variously as Londoners, Nigerians, dual and post‐nationals, they express key features of contemporary transnational European subjectivities. Yet, parental expectations that they marry Nigerians and members of the Nigerian diaspora serve to reproduce the racial distinctions and nationalist rhetoric of colonial modernity that their third space subjectivities contest.

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英属尼日利亚女童的跨国生活和第三空间主观性

借鉴2012年针对在尼日利亚的寄宿学校就读并返回英国大学就读的英国尼日利亚年轻女性的人种学研究，我使用第三空间的概念作为启发式工具来理解其跨国的主观性和实践。我认为，对于某些人来说，这个第三空间是一个过分的空间，在其中他们可以对非洲文化和政治经济进行替代性的主观性和叙述。利用非殖民主义理论的见解，我力求在这第三空间的过犯本质上建立基础。他们将自己定位为伦敦人，尼日利亚人，双重国籍和后国籍人士，以此表达当代跨国欧洲主体性的主要特征。然而，