Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Released Wednesday, 25th June 2025
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Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Wednesday, 25th June 2025
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In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg about his new book, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities" (University of Georgia Press, 2025). In the book, Legg provides a study of Indian anti-colonialism in the decades before Independence that foregrounds the spatially-mediated and bottom-up politics of old and New Delhi’s poor, its middle classes, and the prominent anti-colonial figures of the Indian National Congress, including especially the women of the anti-colonial movement. He centers the concept of parrhesia (from the later lectures of Michel Foucault) to arrive at an account of the governmentality of anti-colonialism in the years between mass civil disobedience and the Quit India Movement.

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