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Preface and Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2014). Preface and Introduction. In Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India. Duke University Press

Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of... Read More about Preface and Introduction.

Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make? (2012)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., & Banister, E. (2012). Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?. In S. Coen, & E. Banister (Eds.), What a Difference Sex and Gender Make: A Gender, Sex and Health Research Casebook. CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

In this collection, you will find examples from a diversity of disciplines and health foci where accounting for sex and gender in health research has advanced what we know, improved how we do research and made the products of health research more use... Read More about Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?.

Business knowledges within and between the world city (2011)
Book Chapter
Faulconbridge, J., & Hall, S. (2011). Business knowledges within and between the world city. In B. Derudder, P. J. Taylor, & F. Witlox (Eds.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (230-239). Edward Elgar Publishing

Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis (2011)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2011). Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis. In P. Meusburger, M. Heffernan, & E. Wunder (Eds.), Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View (287-303). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8945-8_16

The ambiguous phrase “violent memories” strikes at two of the key conceptual matters about which scholars of India have theorized: memories of violent acts and the violence that such recollections can do to those who remember them, those who are reme... Read More about Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis.

Economics and Human Geography (2009)
Book Chapter
Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Economics and Human Geography. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (332-337). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00279-0

© 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. At first glance, economics and human geography seem to have much in common. However, the relationship between the two disciplines has been dynamic and contested over recent years as epistemologies and ontolog... Read More about Economics and Human Geography.

Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism (2007)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2007). Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism. In S. Elden, & J. Crampton (Eds.), Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315610146

The colonization of most of the free world between the 16th and 21st centuries has brought not only territorial but also epistemic and historiographical violence and domination. The end of formal occupation has not signalled the withdrawal of colonia... Read More about Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism.

International division of labor
Book Chapter
Lim, K. F. International division of labor. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley-Blackwell

International division of labor refers to a conception of economic production as intrinsically transnational; of the interdependence between economic production and geographically-differentiated labor power in the first instance. ‘Old’ and ‘new’ vers... Read More about International division of labor.

Labor market
Book Chapter
Lim, K. F. Labor market. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley-Blackwell

Labor markets are socially-constructed entities that facilitate the buying and selling of labor power. They are effectively political-geographic institutions, governed predominantly by state regulations that apply within specific territorial boundari... Read More about Labor market.

Regulation/deregulation
Book Chapter
Lim, K. F. Regulation/deregulation. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley Blackwell

Economic regulation is dynamically entwined with deregulation. Contrary to the logic of market fundamentalism, producers and/or consumers do not always benefit from deregulation. Rational-choice theories of regulation have not impacted economic-geogr... Read More about Regulation/deregulation.