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Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia (2025)
Book
Legg, S., Gould, W., & Gupta, C. (Eds.). (2025). Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia. Routledge

This book builds on the latest research on India’s Partition and the politics of communal identity and explores the intricate relationship between community and religion on the one hand, and space or geography on the other.
Reconsidering the role... Read More about Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia.

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2025)
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Legg, S. (2025). Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities. University of Georgia

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities provides a spatial analysis of the anticolonial governmentalities that emerged in the colonial capital of British India. Reading across imperial and nationalist archives, newspapers, memoirs,... Read More about Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities.

Subaltern Geographies (2025)
Book
Jazeel, T., & Legg, S. (Eds.). (2025). Subaltern Geographies. Oxford University Press

Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities (2024)
Journal Article
Dishington, R. (2024). Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities. Geography Compass, 18(11), Article e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70011

Drawing on established scholarship in the historical geography of science, the history of technology, and science and technology studies, this paper argues for the significance of an historical geography of engineering. Large-scale and transformative... Read More about Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities.

Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction (2024)
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Legg, S. (2025). Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 87, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.005

This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an on... Read More about Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction.

Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries (2024)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Smallman-Raynor, M. (2024). Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries. Geography Review, 38(1),

Countries experience a transition in the major causes of illness and death as they develop economically. This article considers some frameworks for exploring these transitions, with a particular focus on recent rapid transitions in some countries of... Read More about Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries.

Mapping, geography (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2025). Mapping, geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50(1), Article e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12707

This Themed Intervention consists of short papers written by nine plenary speakers at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers plus a paper by the Society's Cartographic Collections Manage... Read More about Mapping, geography.

How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 154-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.007

In this 'Historical Geography at Large' review I recount my participation in an August 2023 summer school led by Professor Alan Lester at the University of Sussex, entitled 'How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war'. The w... Read More about How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war.

Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference (2024)
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Legg, S. (2024). Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference. Urban History, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926824000439

This survey reflects on the intersections of global and urban history through brief reflections on the Round Table Conference which took place over three sessions in London between 1930 and 1932. Uniting Indian representatives and the British governm... Read More about Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference.

The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s (2024)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M. (2024). The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0073

This essay considers an early eighteenth-century quarrel about the geographical dimensions of Paris and London. The dispute involved representatives of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society in London. The three participants—... Read More about The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s.

Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London (2024)
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Legg, S. (2024). Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London. Geography Review, 37(4), 37-39

This article explores globalisation’s historical geographies, using the example of visiting Indians in 1930s London to decolonise our presumptions about who helped craft the globe.

Geography's Foucault (2023)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (in press). Geography's Foucault. In D. Lorenzini (Ed.), The Foucauldian Mind. Routledge

This chapter gives a sense of how geographers have worked with Foucault’s spatial research, and how they have taken his philosophical works more broadly and applied them to geographical questions. First, it reviews engagements since the 1990s with Fo... Read More about Geography's Foucault.

Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home (2023)
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Legg, S. (2023). Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(6), 960–977. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231174453

This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience, mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial Delhi. The capital’s “Rescue Home” was created to house women and girls removed from the c... Read More about Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home.

Hindu Nationalism in the International: BS Moonje’s Travel Writing at the Round Table Conference (2023)
Book Chapter
LEGG, S. (2023). Hindu Nationalism in the International: BS Moonje’s Travel Writing at the Round Table Conference. In B. Guyot-Rechard, & E. Leake (Eds.), South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent (227-246). Leiden University Press

This chapter considers the expanded geographies of the India Round Table Conference. This political event took place in London over three sittings between 1930-2 and was designed to inform the next stage of constitutional progress for colonial India.... Read More about Hindu Nationalism in the International: BS Moonje’s Travel Writing at the Round Table Conference.

Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). (2023)
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Legg, S. (2023). Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 44(2), 375-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12489

In this exceptional piece of historical scholarship, Rotem Geva walks the reader through a harrowing Indian landscape. The five substantive chapters take us from the dreams about, and campaigns for, independence in India’s colonial capital, to the vi... Read More about Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk)..

About England (2023)
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Matless, D. (2023). About England. Reaktion Books

Explores how ‘England’ and ‘Englishness’ have been imagined since the 1960s.

‘England’ and ‘Englishness’ have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have bee... Read More about About England.

Communal Geographies: An Introduction (2023)
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Gupta, C., & Legg, S. (2023). Communal Geographies: An Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 46(6), 1168-1183. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2303215

This paper introduces a special section comprising eight papers that delve into complex geographies of communal identities in modern South Asia. It situates these papers at a significant intersection of spatial histories and historical geographies of... Read More about Communal Geographies: An Introduction.

Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London (2023)
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Legg, S. (2023). Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009215329

Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences of the 1950s–60s, the Round Table Conference la... Read More about Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London.