Bhatt, C. (2024), The Revolutionary Road to Me: the Western Left and Identity Politics, Cambridge: Polity.

Bhatt, C. (forthcoming 2025), White Extinction: The Ideology and Politics of the Western Far-Right, Cambridge: Polity.

Bhatt, C. (2020), ‘White Extinction:  metaphysical elements of Western fascism’, Theory, Culture and Society, 38(1).

Bhatt, C. (2020), ‘Words and violence: militant Islamist attacks on bloggers in Bangladesh and the UK, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Bhatt, C. (2018) 'Violence, human rights and security', in B. Goold and L. Lazarus eds. Security and Human Rights, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK.

Bhatt, C. (2017) 'Human rights activism and salafi-jihadi violence', International Journal of Human Rights, pp. 1-21. 

Bhatt, C. (2013) ‘The Virtues of Violence: the salafi-jihadi political universe’, Theory, Culture & Society.

Bhatt, C. (2013) ‘Simple Minds: the evolutionary absolutism of Stephen Pinker’, Sociology, December 2013, vol. 47, no. 6, 1229-1232 . 

Bhatt, C. (2012) ‘Human Rights and the Transformations of War’, Sociology, Volume 46, Issue 5, pp. 811 - 826. 

Bhatt, C. (2012) ‘The New Xenologies of Europe: Civil Tensions and Mythic Pasts’, Journal of Civil Society, 8(3). 

Bhatt, C. (2010) 'The Spirit lives on: race and the disciplines', in P. Hill-Collins & J. Solomos eds., The Sage Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Studies (London & Thousand Oaks: Sage).

Bhatt, C. (2010) 'The "British jihad" and the curves of religious violence', Ethnic and Racial Studies Special Issue: Migrants and Minorities Mobilization. Volume 33, Issue 1, pages 39 - 59.

Bhatt, C. (2008) 'The times of movements: a response to Judith Butler', British Journal of Sociology, Volume 59 Issue 1, pages 25 - 33. 

Bhatt, C. (2007), 'Frontlines and interstices in the global war on terror', Development and Change, vol. 38, no. 6, November, pp. 1073-1093. 

Bhatt, C. (2006) 'The Fetish of the Margin: Religious Absolutism, Anti-Racism and Postcolonial Silence' in New Formations, Special Issue - Postcolonial Studies After Iraq, no. 59, Autumn, pp. 98-115.

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

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Chetan’s research interests include modern social theory and modern philosophy, the international far- and authoritarian right, liberal elites and identitarianism, nationalism and racism, and the geopolitical sociology of South Asia and the Middle East. His current projects include: the Euro-American far-right, Western left identity politics, Dalit human rights, and ethnonationalist/religious right politics in the South Asian diaspora, including Hindutva and political Islamism.  Other projects have included the regulation of Palestinian everyday life; bloggers facing death threats in Bangladesh and the UK; politics, violence and virtue in modern politics; the geosociology of armed religious groups. Some of this work is discussed in his TED talk: Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are.

Chetan is a member of the Politics and Human Rights research cluster. 

Chetan has taught for many years on the MSc Human Rights and the MSc Human Rights and Politics. He also teaches Master's courses on Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism, Modern Personhoods and Identitarian Thought, and Contemporary Social Thought.

Chetan welcomes new MPhil/PhD students in areas related to: the international far/authoritarian right; religious right movements; identity politics and identitarian theory (including queer theory, contemporary LGBTQ+ activism, and second generation decolonial theory); the social and cultural history of lesbians and gay men in 1970s-1990s Britain; right-wing/far-right politics and social media platforms.

His current areas of PhD supervision include: political violence in Turkey; political movements in Syria and Palestine; racism and migrant detention in the UK and Canada; the history of black and antiracist movements in the UK. Previous areas of supervision have included: human rights movements and postcolonial authoritarianism in Egypt; the new European far-right; racism in Danish immigration policy; law and regulation in Palestine; Middle-Eastern cities and heritage; xenophobic violence and informal townships in south Africa; the international counter-jihad movement; memory and atrocity in Argentina; the transformations of political Islamism; gender, secularism and the British state; new modes of Israeli state power and Zionism; diverse families/sexualities; Trinidadian carnival.