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Professor STEPHEN LEGG's Outputs (88)

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. Bloomsbury

Toward a Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Toward a 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 (11-36). Bloomsbury Publishing

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. Bloomsbury

Population, Mobility and Moral Regulation (2020)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2020). Population, Mobility and Moral Regulation. In The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography (355-373). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529739954.n20

Populations are living, moving, lusting, mysterious things. They have mortality, but rarely die; they reproduce, but are rarely born; while geographically located they are constantly on the move; and although analysed through charts, algorithms and r... Read More about Population, Mobility and Moral Regulation.

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.

South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings (2018)
Book
Legg, S., & Heath, D. (Eds.). (2018). South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108571982

This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, presen... Read More about South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings.

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., Jewitt, S., Langmead, K., McGowan, S., Morris, C., Norcup, J., Seymour, 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.

Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes: women and the anti-colonial struggle in Delhi, 1930–47 (2018)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2018). Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes: women and the anti-colonial struggle in Delhi, 1930–47. In Culture and Society: Critical Essays in Human Geography (229-249). Routledge

The aim of this article is to highlight the waps in which women achieved agency in a nationalist movement that, while encouraging female participation, attempted to spatially delimit this activity to the home. While nationalist historiographies have... Read More about Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes: women and the anti-colonial struggle in Delhi, 1930–47.