Stephen Legg
@stephenlegg11.bsky.social
Historical Geographer of 20th-Century Interwar Indian Urban, Colonial, Imperial and International Worlds. https://stephenleggeog.wordpress.com
Deeply grateful for this review by Ishan Saraf, the first of a forthcoming forum, which asks of Spaces of Anticolonialism what I'd ask of it, but also pays it the most amazing compliment; that it "does much more than it sets out to do." 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Deeply grateful for this review by Ishan Saraf, the first of a forthcoming forum, which asks of Spaces of Anticolonialism what I'd ask of it, but also pays it the most amazing compliment; that it "does much more than it sets out to do." 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
So "Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia" is now available! Crazy price but hopefully your libraries will consider it...
www.routledge.com/9781032949659
www.routledge.com/9781032949659
August 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
So "Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia" is now available! Crazy price but hopefully your libraries will consider it...
www.routledge.com/9781032949659
www.routledge.com/9781032949659
So, this @routledgehistory.bsky.social will be joining us in August. The combination of two journal special issues I co-edited with the amazing Charu Gupta and Will Gould, ft a stella lineup, listed here www.routledge.com/Communal-Geo...
June 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
So, this @routledgehistory.bsky.social will be joining us in August. The combination of two journal special issues I co-edited with the amazing Charu Gupta and Will Gould, ft a stella lineup, listed here www.routledge.com/Communal-Geo...
25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo
"George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36" Many beautiful colour maps lie within...
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36" Many beautiful colour maps lie within...
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paperback version of "Round Table Conference Geographies
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" finally out!
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit.... £23 but with 20% discount using HIST1425 at checkout...
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" finally out!
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit.... £23 but with 20% discount using HIST1425 at checkout...
April 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Paperback version of "Round Table Conference Geographies
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" finally out!
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit.... £23 but with 20% discount using HIST1425 at checkout...
Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" finally out!
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit.... £23 but with 20% discount using HIST1425 at checkout...
One of the most stimulating events I can remember. Amazingly hosted, thankyou to all the organisers, esp Daniel, in action here, and statuesque,,
March 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
One of the most stimulating events I can remember. Amazingly hosted, thankyou to all the organisers, esp Daniel, in action here, and statuesque,,
Like many I have mixed feelings about visiting Detroit for @geographers.bsky.social's #AAG2025 conference, but am looking forward to debating Trump turmoil and what we can do. Also very, very grateful for this stella lineup to discuss my recent book. Do come if you can: Tuesday 16.10....
March 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Like many I have mixed feelings about visiting Detroit for @geographers.bsky.social's #AAG2025 conference, but am looking forward to debating Trump turmoil and what we can do. Also very, very grateful for this stella lineup to discuss my recent book. Do come if you can: Tuesday 16.10....
Chapter summaries follow from the proposal...
March 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Chapter summaries follow from the proposal...
So after, ahem, 18 years, this is published (South Asia edition in pipeline). A follow-up book, of sorts, looking at New&Old Delhi together, but as spaces of anticolonialism, with parrhesia as the governmentality framework, and a subaltern foci.See 🧵..
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
March 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
So after, ahem, 18 years, this is published (South Asia edition in pipeline). A follow-up book, of sorts, looking at New&Old Delhi together, but as spaces of anticolonialism, with parrhesia as the governmentality framework, and a subaltern foci.See 🧵..
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
Delighted to see the 2nd edition of this classic is out : a book that set my thinking ahead of work on prostitution and scalar sovereignty in colonial India, and written by the most inspiring mentor, friend,&colleague imaginable.... OPEN ACCESS!
t.co/HqM0nGXZBn
t.co/HqM0nGXZBn
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Delighted to see the 2nd edition of this classic is out : a book that set my thinking ahead of work on prostitution and scalar sovereignty in colonial India, and written by the most inspiring mentor, friend,&colleague imaginable.... OPEN ACCESS!
t.co/HqM0nGXZBn
t.co/HqM0nGXZBn