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Stephen Legg

Professor of Historical Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

I undertook my undergraduate degree, ESRC-funded doctorate and Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Since moving to Nottingham my research has been funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, and an AHRC Research Grant. I have taken up visiting research fellowships at Queen Mary, London, the State University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced 糖心原创 at JNU, New Delhi.

Spaces of Colonialism - Delhi's Urban Governmentalities by S Legg | WHSmith Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India: Amazon.co.uk: Legg, Stephen: 9780822357735: Books Round table conference geographies constituting colonial india interwar london | South Asian history | Cambridge University Press

South Asian Governmentalities Subaltern Geographies Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World: Histories of Internationalism Stephen Legg Bloomsbury Academic Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (Interventions): Amazon.co.uk: Legg, Stephen: 9780415600675: Books

Teaching Summary

I teach across a range of modules concentrating on cultural, historical and critical geography:

GEOG2017 Cultural and Historical Geography (convenor)

GEOG2034 Urban Geography

GEOG3017 Geographies of Violence

GEOG3065 Critical Human Geography (convenor)

Research Summary

Further information on my research can be found at my personal website: .

Publications can also be accessed at my Academia.edu , Researchgate.net , and Google scholar .

I am keen to supervise PhD students on the following topics

  • Colonial urbanism, especially in South Asia
  • Anti-Colonial Nationalism and its geographical expressions
  • The geographies of sexuality, in contemporary and historical settings
  • The historical geographies of constitutionalism
  • Interwar internationalism and its spaces of expression and experience
  • Applications of governmentality theory and postcolonial studies to geographical case studies and approaches

Selected Publications

  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Cambridge University Press.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, HEFFERNAN, MIKE, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, eds., 2021. Bloomsbury.
  • JAZEEL, TARIQ and LEGG, STEPHEN, eds., 2019. University of Georgia Press.
  • STEPHEN LEGG and DEANA HEATH, eds., 2018. Cambridge University Press.

LEGG, STEPHEN, Geography's Foucault. In: LORENZINI, DANIELE, ed., The Foucauldian Mind Routledge. (In Press.)

LEGG, STEPHEN. (2025) Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities University of Georgia Press

LEGG, STEPHEN, (In Press.) Urban History.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2025. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(1) e12707

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2025. Journal of Historical Geography. 87, 1-12

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2024. Geography Review. 37(4), 37-39

GUPTA, CHARU and LEGG,. STEPHEN, 2024. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 46(6), 1168-1183

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2024. Journal of Historical Geography. 84, 154-159

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Cambridge University Press.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 41(6), 960 - 977

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. The Conversation. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/cocktails-curry-and-afternoon-tea-inside-the-1930s-london-conference-that-brought-gandhi-to-buckingham-palace-199650>

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. . In: LEAKE, ELIZABETH and GUYOT-R脡CHARD, B脡R脡NICE, eds., South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent De Gruyter. 227-245

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Historisk tidskrift. 143(4), 647-654

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2022. At: Hindustan Times

JAKE HODDER, MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and STEPHEN LEGG, 2021. Journal of Historical Geography. 71, 1-11

MIKE HEFFERNAN, JAKE HODDER, STEPHEN LEGG and BENJAMIN THORPE, 2021. . In: Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World 1-10

HEFFERNAN, MIKE, LEGG, STEPHEN, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, 2021. . In: LEGG, STEPHEN, HEFFERNAN, MIKE, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, eds., Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World Bloomsbury. 11-38

LEGG, STEPHEN, HEFFERNAN, MIKE, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, eds., 2021. Bloomsbury.

LEGG, STEPHEN and CITIZENS, NOTTINGHAM, 2021. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. 22(8), 1164-1186

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2020. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(3), 774-792

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2020. Humanity. 11(1), 32-53

2020. Journal of Historical Geography. 68, 21-32

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2020. . In: DOMOSH, MONA, HEFFERNAN, MIKE and WITHERS, CW, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography SAGE. 357-375

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 37(1), 27-45

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. Geography. Spring, 4-11

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 42(1), 170-187

GOULD, WILLIAM and LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. South Asia:: Journal of South Asian Studies. 42(1), 69-79

JAZEEL, TARIQ and LEGG, STEPHEN, eds., 2019. University of Georgia Press.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. . In: JAZEEL, TARIQ and LEGG, STEPHEN, eds., Subaltern Geographies University of Georgia Press. 1-35

STEPHEN LEGG and DEANA HEATH, eds., 2018. Cambridge University Press.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2018. . In: STEPHEN LEGG and DEANA HEATH, eds., South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings Cambridge University Press. 106-133

HEATH, DEANA and LEGG, STEPHEN, 2018. . In: LEGG, STEPHEN and HEATH, DEANA, eds., South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings Cambridge University Press. 1-36

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2017. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 42(3), 345-348

NEWBIGIN, ELEANOR, SHANI, ORNIT and LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 36(1), 42-43

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 36(1), 44-65

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 34, 858-879

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. 30(4), 793-815

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. . In: PLILEY, JESSICA R, KRAMM-MASOKA, ROBERT and FISCHER-TIN脡, HARALD, eds., Fighting Drink, Drugs, and 'Immorality': Global Anti-Vice Activism, c. 1890-1950 Cambridge University Press. 246-269

JAKE HODDER, STEPHEN LEGG and MIKE HEFFERNAN, 2015. Political Geography. 49, 1-6

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2014. City as a Site of Movements'. In: NAIR, JANAKI, ed., Urbanization in India Indira Gandhi National Open University.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2014. Journal of Historical Geography. 43, 96-110

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2014. Duke University Press.

LEGG, S. and ROY, S., 2013. Interventions: International Journal for Postcolonial Studies. 15(4), 461-473

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2013. . In: PECKHAM, ROBERT and POMFRET, DAVID, eds., Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949 Hong Kong University Press. 105-122

LEGG, STEPHEN and BROWN, MICHEL, 2013. Journal of Historical Geography. 42, 134-139

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2012. Modern Asian Studies. 46(6), 1459-1505

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2012. Leiden Journal of International Law. 25(3), 647-664

STEPHEN LEGG, PATRICIA EHRKAMP, JEREMY CRAMPTON, BERND BELINA, NEIL SMITH and MATTHEW G. HANNAH, 2012. Political Geography. 31(3), 184-193

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. . In: AGNEW, JOHN A and DUNCAN, JAMES S, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography Wiley-Blackwell. 347-360

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. . In: MEUSBURGER, P, HEFFERNAN, M and WUNDER, E, eds., Cultural Memories 287-303

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Area. 43(2), 128-133

LEGG, STEPHEN, ed., 2011. Routledge.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Journal of Historical Geography. 37(4), 505-508

LEGG, STEPHEN and VASUDEVAN, ALEX, 2011. Introduction: Geographies of the Nomos. In: LEGG, STEPHEN, ed., Sovereignty, Spatiality, and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos Routledge. 1-24

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. . In: TEVERSON, ANDREW, and UPSTONE, SARAH, eds., Postcolonial Spaces: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture Palgrave Macmillan. 146-163

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2010. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 28(1), 68-94

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2010. New Global Studies. 4(1), 1-7

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2009. Social History. 34(4), 447-467

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2009. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 34(2), 234-253

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2009. 2(1&2), 219-225

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2008. Environment and Planning A. advance online publication, 37-56

LEGG, STEPHEN. and MCFARLANE, C., 2008. Environment and Planning A. VOL 40(NUMB 1), 6-14

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2007. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell.

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2007. . In: CRAMPTON, J. and ELDEN, S, eds., Space, Knowledge, and Power:: Foucault and Geography Ashgate. 265-289

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2007. Environment and Planning A. 39(2), 456-466

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2006. . In: Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks. 182-204

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2006. Social and Cultural Geography. 7(5), 709-729

LEGG, STEPHEN. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 23(4), 481-504

LEGG, STEPHEN. Population, Space and Place. 11(3), 137-156

LEGG, STEPHEN. Historical Geography. 33, 180-201

LEGG, STEPHEN and DUNCAN, N., 2004. . In: A Companion to Cultural Geography Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, New York. 250-264

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2004. Cultural Geographies. VOL 11(NUMB 1), 99-107

LEGG, STEPHEN, 2003. Gender, Place and Culture. 10(1), 7-28

Past Research

My past research has used Michel Foucault's recently translated governmentality lectures to analyse the landscapes of colonial ordering in interwar Delhi. These studies examined the spatial politics of Delhi as capital of the British Raj. Residential segregation, policing, and urban improvement were studied as ways of exploring the nature of colonial urban rule in (2007). Further papers explored the biographies of British reformers, a comparison of planning ideologies, the postcolonial legacies of colonial governmentalities, and the translatability of Foucault's work to South Asia. These were followed by a project based around the writings of Carl Schmitt, focused on an edited book entitled: (2011). The chapters consider Schmitt's 1950 work The Nomos of the Earth, which explored the role of law in appropriating, producing and distributing space.

In September 2014 I published Duke University Press). This consists of a multi-scalar analysis of the regulation of prostitution in India between the wars. it combines detailed case studies of Delhi, national legislation, the campaign of the Associations for Moral and Social Hygiene, and the influence of the League of Nations. Its aim is to explain the shift from policies favouring the segregation of brothels and prostitutes to the advocacy of suppressing brothels in the hope of reducing traffic in women and children.

The summer of 2015 saw the launch of a major AHRC funded project. Running for five years, "Conferencing the International: a cultural and historical geography of the origins of internationalism (1919-1939)" studies liberal, radical and imperial forms of internationalism as manifested in their conference spaces in the years between the wars. Work is continuing on the outputs from this project. See the project home page, permanent "" exhibition, and website resources concerning the Indian Round Table Conference. 2023 saw the publication of .

Future Research

My future research will focus on anti-colonial social and political movements in interwar Delhi. It will complement my earlier work on the Indian National Congress party in the city with comparative studies of different political geographies of the city. These will consider more fully the impact of the Muslim League, Communist and Trade Union organisations, student groupings, and Hindu Nationalists. Other ongoing research interests address south Asian governmentalities, subaltern theory and the scalar sovereignty of constitutional reform in interwar India.

  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2026. Geography's Foucault. In: LORENZINI, DANIELE, ed., The Foucauldian Mind Routledge. (In Press.)
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, GOULD, WILLIAM and GUPTA, CHARU, eds., 2026. Routledge.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN and PARKER, KATHERINE, 2026. Area. (In Press.)
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2026. Area.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2025. Urban History. 52, 485-490
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2025. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(1), e12707
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, DING, YANNAN, FERRETTI, FEDERICO and MORIN, KAREN, 2025. Journal of Historical Geography. 88, 1-4
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, DING, YANNAN, FERRETTI, FEDERICO and MORIN, KAREN, 2025. Journal of Historical Geography. 88, 5-6
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2024. Geography Review. 37(4), 37-39
  • GUPTA, CHARU and LEGG,. STEPHEN, 2024. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 46(6), 1168-1183
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2024. Journal of Historical Geography. 84, 154-159
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2024. Journal of Historical Geography.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Cambridge University Press.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 41(6), 960 - 977
  • STEPHEN LEGG, 2023. The Conversation. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/cocktails-curry-and-afternoon-tea-inside-the-1930s-london-conference-that-brought-gandhi-to-buckingham-palace-199650>
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. . In: LEAKE, ELIZABETH and GUYOT-R脡CHARD, B脡R脡NICE, eds., South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent De Gruyter. 227-245
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2023. Historisk tidskrift. 143(4), 647-654
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2022. . In: SMITH, CHRISTOPHER, ed., Sovereignty: A Global Perspective Oxford University Press. 147-168
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2022. At: Hindustan Times
  • JAKE HODDER, MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and STEPHEN LEGG, 2021. Journal of Historical Geography. 71, 1-11
  • MIKE HEFFERNAN, JAKE HODDER, STEPHEN LEGG and BENJAMIN THORPE, 2021. . In: Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World 1-10
  • HEFFERNAN, MIKE, LEGG, STEPHEN, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, 2021. . In: LEGG, STEPHEN, HEFFERNAN, MIKE, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, eds., Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World Bloomsbury. 11-38
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, HEFFERNAN, MIKE, HODDER, JAKE and THORPE, BENJAMIN J, eds., 2021. Bloomsbury.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN and CITIZENS, NOTTINGHAM, 2021. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. 22(8), 1164-1186
  • STEPHEN LEGG, 2020. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(3), 774-792
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2020. Humanity. 11(1), 32-53
  • 2020. Journal of Historical Geography. 68, 21-32
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2020. . In: DOMOSH, MONA, HEFFERNAN, MIKE and WITHERS, CW, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography SAGE. 357-375
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 37(1), 27-45
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. Geography. Spring, 4-11
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 42(1), 170-187
  • GOULD, WILLIAM and LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. South Asia:: Journal of South Asian Studies. 42(1), 69-79
  • JAZEEL, TARIQ and LEGG, STEPHEN, eds., 2019. University of Georgia Press.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2019. . In: JAZEEL, TARIQ and LEGG, STEPHEN, eds., Subaltern Geographies University of Georgia Press. 1-35
  • STEPHEN LEGG and DEANA HEATH, eds., 2018. Cambridge University Press.
  • STEPHEN LEGG, 2018. . In: STEPHEN LEGG and DEANA HEATH, eds., South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings Cambridge University Press. 106-133
  • HEATH, DEANA and LEGG, STEPHEN, 2018. . In: LEGG, STEPHEN and HEATH, DEANA, eds., South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings Cambridge University Press. 1-36
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2017. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 42(3), 345-348
  • NEWBIGIN, ELEANOR, SHANI, ORNIT and LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 36(1), 42-43
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 36(1), 44-65
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 34, 858-879
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. 30(4), 793-815
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2016. . In: PLILEY, JESSICA R, KRAMM-MASOKA, ROBERT and FISCHER-TIN脡, HARALD, eds., Fighting Drink, Drugs, and 鈥業mmorality鈥�: Global Anti-Vice Activism, c. 1890-1950 Cambridge University Press. 246-269
  • JAKE HODDER, STEPHEN LEGG and MIKE HEFFERNAN, 2015. Political Geography. 49, 1-6
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2014. City as a Site of Movements'. In: NAIR, JANAKI, ed., Urbanization in India Indira Gandhi National Open University.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2014. Journal of Historical Geography. 43, 96-110
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2014. Duke University Press.
  • LEGG, S. and ROY, S., 2013. Interventions: International Journal for Postcolonial Studies. 15(4), 461-473
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2013. . In: PECKHAM, ROBERT and POMFRET, DAVID, eds., Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949 Hong Kong University Press. 105-122
  • LEGG, STEPHEN and BROWN, MICHEL, 2013. Journal of Historical Geography. 42, 134-139
  • LEGG, S., 2012. Modern Asian Studies. 46(6), 1459-1505
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2012. Leiden Journal of International Law. 25(3), 647-664
  • STEPHEN LEGG, PATRICIA EHRKAMP, JEREMY CRAMPTON, BERND BELINA, NEIL SMITH and MATTHEW G. HANNAH, 2012. Political Geography. 31(3), 184-193
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. . In: AGNEW, JOHN A and DUNCAN, JAMES S, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography Wiley-Blackwell. 347-360
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. . In: MEUSBURGER, P, HEFFERNAN, M and WUNDER, E, eds., Cultural Memories 287-303
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Area. 43(2), 128-133
  • LEGG, S., ed., 2011. Routledge.
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Journal of Historical Geography. 37(4), 505-508
  • LEGG, STEPHEN and VASUDEVAN, ALEX, 2011. Introduction: Geographies of the Nomos. In: LEGG, STEPHEN, ed., Sovereignty, Spatiality, and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos Routledge. 1-24
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. . In: TEVERSON, ANDREW, and UPSTONE, SARAH, eds., Postcolonial Spaces: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture Palgrave Macmillan. 146-163
  • LEGG, S., 2010. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 28(1), 68-94
  • LEGG, STEPHEN, 2010. New Global Studies. 4(1), 1-7
  • LEGG, S, 2009. Social History. 34(4), 447-467
  • LEGG, S., 2009. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 34(2), 234-253
  • LEGG, S, 2009. 2(1&2), 219-225
  • LEGG, S, 2008. Environment and Planning A. advance online publication, 37-56
  • LEGG, S. and MCFARLANE, C., 2008. Environment and Planning A. VOL 40(NUMB 1), 6-14
  • LEGG, S, 2007. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell.
  • LEGG, S, 2007. . In: CRAMPTON, J. and ELDEN, S, eds., Space, Knowledge, and Power:: Foucault and Geography Ashgate. 265-289
  • LEGG, S, 2007. Environment and Planning A. 39(2), 456-466
  • LEGG, S, 2006. . In: Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks. 182-204
  • LEGG, S, 2006. Social and Cultural Geography. 7(5), 709-729
  • LEGG, S., 2005. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 23(4), 481-504
  • LEGG, S, 2005. Population, Space and Place. 11(3), 137-156
  • LEGG, S, 2005. Historical Geography. 33, 180-201
  • LEGG, S and DUNCAN, N., 2004. . In: A Companion to Cultural Geography Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, New York. 250-264
  • LEGG, S., 2004. Cultural Geographies. VOL 11(NUMB 1), 99-107
  • LEGG, S., 2003. Gender, Place and Culture. 10(1), 7-28

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