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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

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.

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.

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.