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Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London. Geography Review Magazine, 37(4), 37-39

This article explores globalisation’s historical geographies, using the example of visiting Indians in 1930s London to decolonise our presumptions about who helped craft the globe.

Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home (2023)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2023). Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(6), 960–977. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231174453

This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience, mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial Delhi. The capital’s “Rescue Home” was created to house women and girls removed from the c... Read More about Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home.

Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). (2023)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2023). Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 44(2), 375-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12489

In this exceptional piece of historical scholarship, Rotem Geva walks the reader through a harrowing Indian landscape. The five substantive chapters take us from the dreams about, and campaigns for, independence in India’s colonial capital, to the vi... Read More about Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk)..

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Introduction. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury

Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury

The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2020)
Journal Article
Hodder, J., Heffernan, M., & Legg, S. (2021). The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race. Journal of Historical Geography, 71, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.06.008

© 2020 The Authors This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentieth-century internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers. We show h... Read More about The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race.

Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932 (2020)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2020). Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932. Humanity, 11(1), 32-53. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2020.0006

This paper argues that we can view the Round Table Conference (three sittings between 1930-32) as an international organisation that re-assembled the technology of the colonial Indian state. The conference is traditionally associated with colonial an... Read More about Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932.

Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932 (2020)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2020). Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932. Journal of Historical Geography, 68, 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2019.12.005

This paper presents new ways of thinking about both the spatial relationality of a political event, and a mobile perspective on interwar imperialism, anti-colonialism and Indian nationalism. Between 1930 and 1932 over one hundred delegates from India... Read More about Political lives at sea: working and socialising to and from the India Round Table Conference in London, 1930–1932.

‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Citizens, N. (2021). ‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission. Social and Cultural Geography, 22(8), 1164-1186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1697460

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper recounts the Hate Crime Commission carried out in 2014 by Nottingham Citizens, a charity and community organiser. It provides an insider account of... Read More about ‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission.

“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932 (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). “Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(3), 774-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1630247

Between 1930-1932 the three sessions of the Round Table Conference in London drew over 70 Indian delegates to the city, for up to three months, to debate India's constitutional future within the British Empire. This paper argues that the "atmosphere"... Read More about “Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932.

A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472

This paper explores the mohallas of Delhi, sub-communities within the city, and asks whether Delhi was pre-partitioning before August 1947. It suggests that the mohalla was a site of political mobilisation that was systematically used by Congress fro... Read More about A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi.

Spaces before partition: an Introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Gould, W. (2019). Spaces before partition: an Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554489

This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the partition of India. The papers respond to two types of question. One type is spatial (at what scale to do we approach partition? Thro... Read More about Spaces before partition: an Introduction.

Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London. Geography, 104(1), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2019.12094056

In this paper I argue that two core components of contemporary British human geography curricula (global governance and place making) can and should be taught together. I also argue that materials from the past provide valuable teaching tools in the... Read More about Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London.

Subjects of truth: resisting governmentality in Foucault’s 1980s (2018)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). Subjects of truth: resisting governmentality in Foucault’s 1980s. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(1), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818801957

Responding to ongoing concerns that Michel Foucault’s influential governmentality analytics fail to enable the study of “resistance”, this paper analyses his last two lecture courses on “parrhesia” (risky and courageous speech). While Foucault resist... Read More about Subjects of truth: resisting governmentality in Foucault’s 1980s.

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine (2018)
Other
Legg, S., Clare, N., Field, R., Forsyth, I., Freeman, C., French, S., …Soccorsy, E. (2018). Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

A co-authored and co-curated series of reflections on the 2018 UCU strikes in British Universities, protesting against proposed pension reforms.

Decolonialism (2017)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2017). Decolonialism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(3), 345-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12203

This piece opens with some reflections on the geographies of postcolonial scholarship and encourages us to trace out colonial durations in our lives and in the provocations we face. Two examples are given, from the International Conference of Critica... Read More about Decolonialism.

Empirical and analytical subaltern space?: ashrams, brothels and trafficking in colonial Delhi (2016)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (in press). Empirical and analytical subaltern space?: ashrams, brothels and trafficking in colonial Delhi. Cultural Studies, 30, https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2016.1168113

In this paper, I will engage with Gayatri Spivak’s writings on the figure of the subaltern, focusing on a recurrent tension in her writings, and in readings of them. The tension is between two seemingly contradictory definitions of the subaltern. One... Read More about Empirical and analytical subaltern space?: ashrams, brothels and trafficking in colonial Delhi.