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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.

Dyarchy: democracy, autocracy and the scalar sovereignty of interwar India (2016)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2016). Dyarchy: democracy, autocracy and the scalar sovereignty of interwar India. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3482111

The 1919 Government of India Act instituted sweeping constitutional reforms that were inspired by the concept of “dyarchy”. This innovation in constitutional history devolved powers to the provinces and then divided these roles of government into res... Read More about Dyarchy: democracy, autocracy and the scalar sovereignty of interwar India.

Introduction: Constitutionalism and the Evolution of Democracy in India (2016)
Journal Article
Newbigin, E., Shani, O., & Legg, S. (2016). Introduction: Constitutionalism and the Evolution of Democracy in India. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36(1), 42-43. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3482099

© 2016 by Duke University Press. The essays in this special section make a significant intervention into debates about the evolution of democracy in South Asia by prompting us to rethink the role of constitutionalism in this process. They focus on th... Read More about Introduction: Constitutionalism and the Evolution of Democracy in India.

Subject to truth: before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s (2016)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2016). Subject to truth: before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816633474

In this paper I situate Foucault’s governmentality analytics between his first lecture course (On the Will to Know, 1970-71) and his first course after his two “governmentality” lectures (On the Government of the Living, 1979-80). The lectures are in... Read More about Subject to truth: before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s.

Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 (2015)
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Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Heffernan, M. (2015). Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950. Political Geography, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.005

This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges a... Read More about Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950.

Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India (2014)
Book
Legg, S. (2014). Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376170

fficially 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 s... Read More about Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India.

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.

An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies (2014)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2014). An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies. Journal of Historical Geography, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.03.002

This paper examines India's experiences as the only non-self-governing member of the League of Nations as a means of addressing the broader question: where was the international? As the only non-self-governing member of the League, India's new intern... Read More about An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies.

Moral regulation: historical geography and scale (2013)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Brown, M. (2013). Moral regulation: historical geography and scale. Journal of Historical Geography, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.02.001

This paper introduces a special issue on the historical geography of moral regulation and scale. The paper examines the rich and varied work of geographers on moral geographies before looking at wider work on moral regulation influenced by Michel Fou... Read More about Moral regulation: historical geography and scale.

Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923) (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923). Modern Asian Studies, 46(6), https://doi.org/10.1017/+S0026749X11000503

This paper explores the regulation of prostitution in colonial India between the abolition of the Indian Contagious Diseases Act in 1888 and the passing of the first Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act in 1923. It challenges the commonly held assumpti... Read More about Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923).

'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities. Leiden Journal of International Law, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000325

This paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against traff... Read More about 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities.

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.

Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939) (2009)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (in press). Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939). Social History, 34(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/03071020903257018

This article explores the social and governmental geographies of colonial Delhi, India. It seeks contrasts and comparisons between two periods in the city's history. The first period is delimited by the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 and the transfer of the capita... Read More about Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939).

Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India (2009)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2009). Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00338.x

Whilst greatly valuing recent critiques of the vertical imaginary and reified ontology of scale theory, and of the unfettered flows of network theory, this paper argues against a human geography without scale. Rather, four propositions from the theor... Read More about Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India.

Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi (2008)
Journal Article
Stephen, L. (2008). Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi. Environment and Planning A, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1068/a38460

This paper explores the ambivalent feelings towards the Government of India produced in one of the government’s own employees. In establishing the Delhi Improvement Trust in the 1930s, Arthur Parke Hume had to battle against governmental cost cutting... Read More about Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi.

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.