Bhatt, Chetan


Professor Chetan Bhatt  

Department

Position held

Department of Sociology

Professor

Centre for the Study of Human Rights

Director

Experience keywords:

nationalism; religious extremism and violence; human rights; social theory and philosophy; minorities; South Asia; terrorism studies

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My research interests include human rights; the religious right and religious conflict; terrorism studies and counter-terrorism; nationalism, racism and ethnicity; the geopolitical sociology of South Asia and the Middle East; warfare and military theory; social theory and philosophy; transnational religious networks; development and regional state formations.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and CultureLawPolicy and Regulatory BodiesPublic Administration

Languages:

Hindi [Spoken: Basic]; Gujarati [Spoken: Fluent]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)207 955 6262

Publications

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2012

Bhatt, Chetan (2012) Human rights and the transformations of war. Sociology, 46 (5). pp. 813-824. ISSN 0038-0385

Bhatt, Chetan (2012) The new xenologies of Europe: civil tensions and mythic pasts. Journal of civil society, 8 (3). pp. 307-326. ISSN 1744-8689

Bhatt, Chetan (2012) Secularism and conflicts about rights. In: Yuval-Davis, Nira and Marfleet, Philip, (eds.) Secularism, racism and the politics of belonging. Runnymede, London, UK, pp. 6-9. ISBN 9781906732790

Bhatt, Chetan and Seckinelgin, Hakan (2012) European social space or Europe’s social spaces? Journal of civil society, 8 (3). pp. 207-212. ISSN 1744-8689

2011

Bhatt, Chetan (2011) Doing a dissertation. In: Seale, Clive, (ed.) Researching society and culture. Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 409-430. ISBN 9781849207997

2010

Bhatt, Chetan (2010) The spirit lives on: race and the disciplines. In: Hill Collins, Patricia and Solomos, John, (eds.) The SAGE handbook of race and ethnic studies. SAGE Publications, London, UK, pp. 90-128. ISBN 9780761942207

Bhatt, Chetan (2010) The ‘British jihad’ and the curves of religious violence. Ethnic and racial studies, 33 (1). pp. 39-59. ISSN 0141-9870

2008

Bhatt, Chetan (2008) The times of movements: a response to Judith Butler. British journal of sociology, 59 (1). pp. 25-33. ISSN 0007-1315

2007

Bhatt, Chetan (2007) Frontlines and interstices in the global war on terror. Development and change, 38 (6). pp. 1073-1093. ISSN 0012-155X

2006

Bhatt, Chetan (2006) The fetish of the margins: religious absolutism, anti-racism and postcolonial silence. New formations, 59 pp. 98-115. ISSN 0950-2378

2005

Bhatt, Chetan (2005) From the rivers of hate: strange travels in Indo-German fantasy. In: Schneider, A. and Fitz, A. and Kröger, M. and Wenner, D., (eds.) Atlas of Indo-German fantasies. Parthas Verlag, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 3866019106

2004

Bhatt, Chetan (2004) Democracy and Hindu nationalism. Democratization, 11 (4). pp. 133-154. ISSN 1351-0347

Bhatt, Chetan (2004) Contemporary geopolitics and 'alterity' research. In: Bulmer, Martin and Solomos, John, (eds.) Researching race and racism. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 16-36. ISBN 9780415300902

Bhatt, Chetan (2004) 'Majority ethnic' claims and authoritarian nationalism: the case of Hindutva. In: Kaufmann, Eric P., (ed.) Rethinking ethnicity : majority groups and dominant minorities. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 198-220. ISBN 9780415315432

2003

Bhatt, Chetan (2003) Promoting race equality in the English NHS : a progress review. Commission for Racial Equality, London, UK

2002

Bhatt, Chetan (2002) The land, the blood and the passion: the Hindu far-right. In: Weeks, Jeffrey and Holland, Janet and Waites, Matthew, (eds.) Sexualities and society: a reader. Polity, Cambridge, UK, pp. 195-203. ISBN 9780745622484

2001

Bhatt, Chetan (2001) Kant's `raw man' and the miming of primitivism: Spivak's 'Critique of postcolonial reason'. Radical philosophy, 105 (Jan). ISSN 0300-211X

Bhatt, Chetan (2001) Hindu nationalism: origins, ideologies and modern myths. Berg, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781859733431

2000

Bhatt, Chetan (2000) Dharmo rakshati rakshitah: Hindutva movements in the UK. Ethnic and racial studies, 23 (3). pp. 559-593. ISSN 0141-9870

Bhatt, Chetan and Mukta, Parita (2000) Hindutva in the West: mapping the antinomies of diaspora nationalism. Ethnic and racial studies, 23 (3). pp. 407-441. ISSN 0141-9870

Bhatt, Chetan (2000) Primordial being: Enlightenment, Schopenhauer and the Indian subject of postcolonial theory. Radical philosophy, 100 (March/). ISSN 0300-211X

Bhatt, Chetan (2000) The lore of the homeland: Hindu nationalism and indigenist neoracism. In: Back, Les and Solomos, John, (eds.) Theories of race and racism : a reader. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 573-593. ISBN 0415156718

Bhatt, Chetan and Phellas, C. and Pozniak, A. (2000) National African HIV Prevention Projects: evaluation report to the Department of Health / Enfield & Haringey Health Authority. Goldsmiths College and Enfield and Haringey Health Authority, London, UK

1999

Bhatt, Chetan (1999) Ethnic absolutism and the authoritarian spirit. Theory, culture and society, 16 (2). pp. 65-85. ISSN 0263-2764

1997

Bhatt, Chetan (1997) Liberation and purity : race, new religious movements and the ethics of postmodernity. Routledge (in association with UCL Press), London, UK. ISBN 9781857284249

Bhatt, Chetan (1997) Positive responses: HIV and African communities in Enfield & Haringey. Enfield & Haringey Health Authority, London, UK

Bhatt, Chetan and Lee, Robert (1997) Official knowledges: the free market, identity formation, sexuality and race in the HIV/AIDS sector. In: Oppenheimer, Joshua and Reckitt, Helena, (eds.) Acting on AIDS: sex, drugs and politics. Serpent's Tail, London, UK, pp. 198-234. ISBN 1852425539

1996

Bhatt, Chetan (1996) Looking at epidemiology. The HIV Project - north Thames Regional Health Authority, London, UK

Bhatt, Chetan (1996) Needs assessment. The HIV Project - North Thames Regional Health Authority, London, UK

Bhatt, Chetan (1996) HIV primary and secondary prevention issues for African communities. The HIV Project - North Thames Regional Health Authority, London, UK

1994

Bhatt, Chetan (1994) New foundations: contingency, indeterminacy and black translocality. In: Weeks, Jeffrey, (ed.) The lesser evil and the greater good: the theory and politics of social diversity. Rivers Oram Press, London, UK, pp. 138-164. ISBN 1854890549

1992

Bhatt, Chetan (1992) Empowerment and understanding. In: Evans, Bernie and Sandberg, Simon and Watson, Stuart, (eds.) Working where the risks are: issues in HIV prevention: proceedings of the second annual conference of District HIV Prevention Co-ordinators, 13-14 November 1991. Health Education Authority, London, UK. ISBN 1854484214

Bhatt, Chetan Kant's `raw man' and the miming of primitivism: Spivak's 'critique of postcolonial reason'. In: Radical philosophy. . ISSN 0300-211X

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Awards

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, ESRC Research Fellowship

 

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