Stephen Legg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 640463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Legg |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Legg |
| ASSINATURA | LEGG S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9548-9763 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 770 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Cities and Decolonization
Writing the anticolonial
Map Room Conversations
In this introduction to the Special Section entitled ‘Map Room Conversations’ we explain the origins of the collection in a set of sessions co‐organised by the authors at the 2024 Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). These sessions paired presenters working on similar topics from different perspectives, who briefly introduced a selection of maps or mapping objects to participants and then engaged in discus…
Spaces of Anticolonialism
Spaces of Anticolonialism
Spaces of Anticolonialism
Historical geographies
In July 2020 the Journal of Historical Geography published an editorial marking our commitment to a decolonial ethos and praxis. We committed to this not only in our empirical or theoretical interests, but in our functioning as a journal. It was noted in the next editorial that we had, to date, failed to represent the international, multilingual nature of historical geography communities. As part of the continuation of this task, and to mark the …
The Journal of Historical Geography at 50
Contesting monuments
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 ongoing and rich interest in the interconnections between nationalism, landscape and ritual, with some emphasis on resistance but little sense of the contemporary lives of these historic monuments. Broa…
Enfolding empire into 1930s London
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 government in London to solve political stalemate in South Asia, the conference provides a dramatic event through which to explore the enfolding of the British empire into the imperial capital. But the confe…
How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war
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 workshop encouraged the participation of non-academics who desired greater knowledge of the British empire and its legacies, to help them negotiate contemporary debates over race, slavery, colonialism,…
Mapping, geography
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 Manager. In this introduction, I explain why I chose mapping as the conference Chair's theme. I give a sense of how the relationship between geography and mapping has been addressed through previous confere…
Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular
This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of ‘Second-Third World’ interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces.
Round Table Conference Geographies
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 laid the blueprint for India's future federal constitution. Despite this the conference is unanimously read as a failure, for not having comprehensively reconciled the competing demands of liberal and I…
Communal Geographies
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 the region, with a focus on exploring the intricate relationship between community and religious identity on the one hand, and space and scale on the other. We take a broad view of communal geographi…
Carceral and colonial domesticities
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 city's brothels under new legislation. While no brothels were closed in the first year of the laws functioning, the home accepted 18 women and girls and detailed their circumstances and experiences in …
No place for hate
© 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 a piece of community led and co-produced research into the experiences of and under-reporting of hate crime in the city, and the relative success of the commission in forcing policy changes and inspiri…
Historical geographies of the 21st century
Political lives at sea
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 visited London to participate in the three sessions of the Round Table Conference, which determined India’s constitutional future within the British Empire. This conference informally began, and cont…
The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism
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 how the form and location of international archival records is itself evidence of multiple, interlocking modes of internationalism which unevenly intersected with national, imperial, and pan-national pasts. This is explo…
Subaltern Geographies
Subaltern Geographies
Subaltern Studies, Space, and the Geographical Imagination
A Pre-Partitioned City? Anti-Colonial and Communal Mohallas in Inter-War Delhi
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 the Congress from the Civil Disobedience movement of 1930 onwards. During the early 1940s, communal voluntary associations like the Muslim League’s National Guard and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh attempted to …
Spaces before Partition
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 questions. One type is spatial (at what scale do we approach Partition? Through which spaces should we attempt to understand both micro and macro processes? Movements across what distances constituted Partition?). The second type is temporal (what timescales do we invoke when a…
Foucault's population geographies
While Michel Foucault's writings have been used in different branches of geography, his later writings on governmentality and especially biopolitics have not yet received due consideration within population geography. This paper attempts to divert attention to Foucault's writings on population, from his initial medical work to his later governmentality lectures on the regulation of national populations. From his various writings the different sca…
Assemblage/apparatus
In this commentary I would like to offer some reflections on the Deleuzian concept of 'assemblage' (agencement) from the perspective of my grounding in 'governmentality studies' and, secondly, on the latter's central concern with the concept of the security 'apparatus' (dispositif). I would like to suggest that the two be thought of dialectically, both as concepts and as actually-existing things in the world. After outlining my use to date of the…
Of scales, networks and assemblages
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 theoretical literature are used to provide a tool-kit to analyse the practical negotiation of scalar politics, namely that: scales should be considered as effects, not frames or structures, of practice; ne…
Contesting and Surviving Memory
In this paper I explore the writings of Pierre Nora on lieux de mémoire (realms of memory). Nora's work is a standard reference in geographical writings on memory, yet there are various assumptions in his work that often go unchallenged. An investigation of the concept of nostalgia allows certain levels of yearning to be made clear in Nora's writings. A melancholic nostalgia for 'real environments of memory' and for the unifying power of the nati…
Governmentality, congestion and calculation in colonial Delhi
This paper seeks to explore a different way of examining the ‘difference’ of European and colonial governments, showing how the Indian colonial state privileged investments in political, rather than civil, society. The former targeted the population and sought effects through policies that could be co-ordinated from a distance, at low cost. The latter targeted the social realm and necessarily involved the admission of the rights and privileges of…
Memory and nostalgia
An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations and India's princely geographies
An Intimate and Imperial Feminism
This paper seeks to construct an antinostalgic portrait of an imperial feminist. As the representative of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) in India between 1928 and 1947, Meliscent Shephard was an embodiment not only of the feminist urge to challenge patriarchal gender relations, but also of the imperialist urge to classify and fathom the world through a series of racist typologies. Despite an earlier belief that blame for the …
Ambivalent Improvements
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 in an attempt to secure the rehousing of slum evictees. The refusal of the government to accept this welfarist commitment to investment led to the stalling of the improvement projects and great emoti…
Decolonialism
This piece opens with some reflections on the geographies of postcolonial scholarship and encourages us to trace out colonial durations in our lives and in the provocations we face. Two examples are given, from the International Conference of Critical Geographers and the Nottingham Citizens' Hate Crime Commission, before reflecting on what ‘decolonialism’ might mean for geography
Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes
The aim of this article is to highlight the ways 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 acknowledged those women who left the home and joined nationalist protests in public, there were many more women supporting those processions and meetings in private. While the home cannot be consider…
Dyarchy
The 1919 Government of India Act devolved powers to the provinces and then divided these roles of government into reserved and transferred subjects, the latter of which would be administered by elected Indian ministers: the constitutional experiment known as dyarchy. Recent scholarship has been reassessing the local biopolitical potential unleashed by the 1919 act. In this article Legg revisits dyarchy at the national scale to show how this “All-…
Political Atmospherics
Between 1930 and 1932 the three sessions of the Round Table Conference in London drew more than seventy Indian delegates to the city, for up to three months, to debate India’s constitutional future within the British Empire. This article argues that the atmosphere of the conference was central to its successes and failures and that studying atmospheres can help us think about the co-constitution of place, bodies, and politics more broadly. It app…
Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi
Mark Crinson is justified in arguing that Delhi ‘is probably the most studied of all modern colonial cities, the pre-eminent test case of postcolonial urban studies’. 1 It has been written about in terms of its ancient capitals, and the construction in the seventeenth century of the final Mughal capital, Shahjahanabad. Its experiences under the East India Company residency between 1803 and 1857 have been variously reflected upon as a time of gove…
The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism
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 how the form and location of international archival records is itself evidence of multiple, interlocking modes of internationalism which unevenly intersected with national, imperial, and pan-national pasts. This is explo…
Subjects of truth
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 resisted resistance as an analytical category, he increasingly pointed us towards militant, alternative and insolent forms of counter-conduct. The paper comparatively analyses Foucault's reading of Plato, S…
Subject to truth
In this article, I situate Foucault's governmentality analytics between his first lecture course ( On the Will to Know, 1970-1971) and his first course after his two 'governmentality' lectures ( On the Government of the Living, 1979-1980). The lectures are interconnected by a shared interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex as well as by different but related obsessions with the production of truth: the earlier, with truth as fact; the latter, wit…
Stimulation, Segregation and Scandal
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 assumption that prostitutes naturally segregated themselves in Indian cities, and shows that this was a policy advocated by the Government of India. The object was to prevent the military visiting these segre…
Introduction
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 and the potential of internationalism as a form of political consciousness and the international as a scale of political action. Recent work has sought to re-conceptualise internationalism as the most …
Ordinary Urban Spaces
The Life of Individuals as well as of Nations’
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 trafficking in women and children. The League used conventions and conferences to commit nation-states, in a legal model, to standardized anti-trafficking measures. It also, however, worked to educate and …
Moral regulation
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 Foucault. Highlighting the significance of the neglected dimension of scale, the paper introduces the themes examined in the subsequent papers
Mapping, geography
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 Manager. In this introduction, I explain why I chose mapping as the conference Chair's theme. I give a sense of how the relationship between geography and mapping has been addressed through previous confere…
An 'Indispensable Hypodermis
Carceral and colonial domesticities
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 city's brothels under new legislation. While no brothels were closed in the first year of the laws functioning, the home accepted 18 women and girls and detailed their circumstances and experiences in …
Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes
The aim of this article is to highlight the ways 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 acknowledged those women who left the home and joined nationalist protests in public, there were many more women supporting those processions and meetings in private. While the home cannot be consider…
Memory and nostalgia
Foucault's population geographies
While Michel Foucault's writings have been used in different branches of geography, his later writings on governmentality and especially biopolitics have not yet received due consideration within population geography. This paper attempts to divert attention to Foucault's writings on population, from his initial medical work to his later governmentality lectures on the regulation of national populations. From his various writings the different sca…
Contesting and Surviving Memory
In this paper I explore the writings of Pierre Nora on lieux de mémoire (realms of memory). Nora's work is a standard reference in geographical writings on memory, yet there are various assumptions in his work that often go unchallenged. An investigation of the concept of nostalgia allows certain levels of yearning to be made clear in Nora's writings. A melancholic nostalgia for 'real environments of memory' and for the unifying power of the nati…
Paris, Capital of Modernity . David Harvey ; The New Berlin
(2006). Paris, Capital of Modernity. David Harvey; The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place. Karen E. Till. Urban Geography: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 293-296
Governmentality, congestion and calculation in colonial Delhi
This paper seeks to explore a different way of examining the ‘difference’ of European and colonial governments, showing how the Indian colonial state privileged investments in political, rather than civil, society. The former targeted the population and sought effects through policies that could be co-ordinated from a distance, at low cost. The latter targeted the social realm and necessarily involved the admission of the rights and privileges of…
Spaces of Colonialism
Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi. Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault's lecture courses. Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings. Undertakes a critique of colonial g…
Ambivalent Improvements
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 in an attempt to secure the rehousing of slum evictees. The refusal of the government to accept this welfarist commitment to investment led to the stalling of the improvement projects and great emoti…
Ordinary Urban Spaces
Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi
Mark Crinson is justified in arguing that Delhi ‘is probably the most studied of all modern colonial cities, the pre-eminent test case of postcolonial urban studies’. 1 It has been written about in terms of its ancient capitals, and the construction in the seventeenth century of the final Mughal capital, Shahjahanabad. Its experiences under the East India Company residency between 1803 and 1857 have been variously reflected upon as a time of gove…
Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Griffith Taylor Medal
Of scales, networks and assemblages
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 theoretical literature are used to provide a tool-kit to analyse the practical negotiation of scalar politics, namely that: scales should be considered as effects, not frames or structures, of practice; ne…
An 'Indispensable Hypodermis
An Intimate and Imperial Feminism
This paper seeks to construct an antinostalgic portrait of an imperial feminist. As the representative of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) in India between 1928 and 1947, Meliscent Shephard was an embodiment not only of the feminist urge to challenge patriarchal gender relations, but also of the imperialist urge to classify and fathom the world through a series of racist typologies. Despite an earlier belief that blame for the …
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
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Legal geographies and the state of imperialism
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
Assemblage/apparatus
In this commentary I would like to offer some reflections on the Deleuzian concept of 'assemblage' (agencement) from the perspective of my grounding in 'governmentality studies' and, secondly, on the latter's central concern with the concept of the security 'apparatus' (dispositif). I would like to suggest that the two be thought of dialectically, both as concepts and as actually-existing things in the world. After outlining my use to date of the…
Reading Matthew G. Hannah’s Dark Territory in the Information Age
The Life of Individuals as well as of Nations’
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 trafficking in women and children. The League used conventions and conferences to commit nation-states, in a legal model, to standardized anti-trafficking measures. It also, however, worked to educate and …
Stimulation, Segregation and Scandal
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 assumption that prostitutes naturally segregated themselves in Indian cities, and shows that this was a policy advocated by the Government of India. The object was to prevent the military visiting these segre…
Neoliberalism, Postcolonialism and Hetero-Sovereignties
Notes1 The Symposium on Gender and South Asia: New Directions, June 2008, featured papers by Yasmin Saika, Nayanika Mookherjee, Srila Roy, Parvati Raghuram, Sarah Hodges, and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. The Symposium on Sexuality and South Asia: New Directions, March 2010, featured papers by Ashwini Tambe, Sanjay Srivastava, Stephen Legg, Svati Shah, Prabha Kotiswaran, Akhil Katyal, Paul Boyce and Gargi Bhattacharyya. Both events were generously spon…
Para Além Da Província Europeia
Publicado originalmente em um extenso volume sobre Michael Foucault e a Geografia, o texto traça as relações entre o filósofo francês e o pós-colonialismo. Articulando referências fundamentais para as teorias pós-coloniais, Legg explora o uso de Foucault no trabalho de Edward Said e outros autores vinculados ao Grupo de Estudos Subalternos, apresentando a apropriação do filósofo “para além da província europeia”
An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations and India's princely geographies
Moral regulation
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 Foucault. Highlighting the significance of the neglected dimension of scale, the paper introduces the themes examined in the subsequent papers
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