Professor STEPHEN LEGG's Outputs (2)

‘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.

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.