Stephen Legg, ‘Spaces of Anticolonialism’

Wednesday 22nd October, 2025

5:30 pm, ArtsTwo 3.20

The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to celebrate the publication of Stephen Legg’s Spaces of Anticolonialism (University of Georgia Press, 2025). The book is a path-breaking account of the subaltern geographies and struggles that animated both new and old Delhi in the decades before India’s independence in 1947.

ALL WELCOME BUT PLEASE REGISTER AT TINYURL.COM/QMLEGG. 

This event is co-hosted with the London Seminar in the History of Anticolonial Political Thought.

Stephen Legg is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of a number of texts, including Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities (2007), Prostitution and the Ends of Empire (2014), and Round Table Conference Geographies (2023), and editor or co-editor of the volumes Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt (2011), South Asian Governmentalities (2018, with Deana Heath), Subaltern Geographies(2019, with Tariq Jazeel), and Placing Internationalism (2021, with Mike Heffernan, Jake Hodder and Benjamin Thorpe).

For this panel, Prof Legg will be in discussion with

• Tanroop Sandhu, PhD candidate in History at QMUL;
• Romola Sanyal, Associate Professor in Urban Geography at LSE; and
• Philippa Williams, Professor of Geography at QMUL.

The panel will be chaired by Chris Moffat, Senior Lecturer in History at QMUL and co-Chair of QMUL SAF.