Stephen Legg

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Research Summary

For more information see my personal website at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/stephenlegg/profile.htm

I am currently completing a monograph entitled Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities and Interwar India. 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 Associaltion 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.

This follows a project based around the writings of Carl Schmitt, focused onan edited book entitled Geographies of the Nomos: Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt (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. My chapter considers Schmitt's condemnation of the League of Nations as the harbinger of the collapse of European imperial order.

Selected Publications

• LEGG, STEPHEN, ed., 2011. Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos Routledge.
• LEGG, S., 2009. Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. VOL 34(NUMBER 2), 234-253
• LEGG, S, 2007. Spaces of colonialism: Delhi's urban governmentalities Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell.
• LEGG, S, 2010. An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 28(1), 68-94

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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 Spaces of Colonialism (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.

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.

• STEPHEN LEGG, 2012. Stimulation, Segregation and Scandal: Geographies of Prostitution Regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923) Modern Asian Studies. (In Press.)
• LEGG, STEPHEN, 2012. “The life of individuals as well as of nations”: international law and the League of Nations’ anti-trafficking governmentalities Leiden Journal of International Law. (In Press.)
• LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Governance - Part II. In: AGNEW, JOHN A and DUNCAN, JAMES S, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography Wiley-Blackwell. 347-360
• LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Violent memories: South Asian spaces of postcolonial anamnesis. In: MEUSBURGER, P, HEFFERNAN, M and WUNDER, E, eds., Cultural Memories 287-303
• LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Assemblage/Apparatus: using Deleuze and Foucault Area. 43(2), 128-133
• LEGG, STEPHEN, ed., 2011. Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos Routledge.
• LEGG, STEPHEN, 2011. Legal geographies and the state of imperialism: environments, constitutions, and violence 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. Security, territory and colonial populations: town and empire in Foucault's 1978 lecture course. In: TEVERSON, ANDREW, and UPSTONE, SARAH, eds., Postcolonial Spaces: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture Palgrave Macmillan. 146-163
• LEGG, S, 2010. An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 28(1), 68-94
• LEGG, STEPHEN, 2010. Transnationalism and the Scalar Politics of Imperialism New Global Studies. 4(1), 1-7
• LEGG, S, 2009. Governing Prostitution in Colonial Delhi: from Cantonment Regulations to International Hygiene (1864-1939) Social History. 34(4), 447-467
• LEGG, S., 2009. Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. VOL 34(NUMBER 2), 234-253
• LEGG, S, 2009. An 'Indispensible hypodermis'?: The role of scale in The Birth of Biopolitics 2(1&2), 219-225
• LEGG, S, 2008. Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi Environment and Planning A. advance online publication, 37-56
• LEGG, S. and MCFARLANE, C., 2008. Ordinary urban spaces: between postcolonialism and development Environment and Planning A. VOL 40(NUMB 1), 6-14
• LEGG, S, 2007. Spaces of colonialism: Delhi's urban governmentalities Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell.
• LEGG, S, 2007. Beyond the European Province: Foucault and Postcolonialism. In: CRAMPTON, J. and ELDEN, S, eds., Space, Knowledge, and Power:: Foucault and Geography Ashgate. 265-289
• LEGG, S, 2007. Reviewing geographies of memory/forgetting Environment and Planning A. 39(2), 456-466 (In Press.)
• LEGG, S, 2006. Postcolonial Developmentalities: From the Delhi Improvement Trust to the Delhi Development Authority. In: Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks. 182-204
• LEGG, S, 2006. Governmentality, Congestion, and Calculation in Colonial Delhi Social and Cultural Geography. 7(5), 709-729
• LEGG, S., 2005. Contesting and surviving memory: space, nation, and nostalgia in Les Lieux de Memoire Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 23(4), 481-504
• LEGG, S, 2005. Foucault's Population Geographies: Classifications, Biopolitics and Governmental Spaces Population, Space and Place. 11(3), 137-156
• LEGG, S, 2005. Sites of Counter-Memory: the Refusal to Forget and the Nationalist Struggle in Colonial Delhi Historical Geography. 33, 180-201
• LEGG, S and DUNCAN, N., 2004. Social Class. In: A Companion to Cultural Geography Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, New York. 250-264
• LEGG, S., 2004. Memory and nostalgia Cultural Geographies. VOL 11(NUMB 1), 99-107
• LEGG, S., 2003. Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes: women and the anticolonial struggle in Delhi, 1930-47 Gender, Place and Culture. 10(1), 7-28