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  • Chalcraft, John (2025). From subordination to revolution: a Gramscian theory of popular mobilization. University of California Press.
  • Heathershaw, John, Chalcraft, John, Chubb, Andrew, Fulda, Andreas, Hughes, Chris, Kaczmarska, Katarzyna, Karran, Terence, Lennox, Corinne, Pils, Eva & Prelec, Tena et al (2022). Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector. International Journal of Human Rights, 26(10), 1858-1865. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2022.2148977
  • Chalcraft, John (2017). Popular movements in the Middle East and North Africa. In Berger, Stefan, Nehring, Holger (Eds.), The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective (pp. 225-263). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chalcraft, John (2016). Popular politics in the making of the modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843952
  • Chalcraft, John (2015). What difference does contestation make? Agency and its limits in the Arab uprisings. In Kienle, Eberhard, Sika, Nadine (Eds.), The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (pp. 65-94). I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Chalcraft, John (2014). Egypt's 25 January uprising, hegemonic contestation, and the explosion of the poor. In Gerges, Fawaz A. (Ed.), The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World (pp. 155-179). Cambridge University Press.
  • Chalcraft, John (2012). Egypt’s uprising, Mohammed Bouazizi, and the failure of neoliberalism. Maghreb Review, 37(3-4), 195-214.
  • Chalcraft, John (2012). Horizontalism in the Egyptian revolutionary process. Middle East Report, (262), 6-11.
  • Chalcraft, John (2011). Migration politics in the Arabian Peninsula. In Held, David, Ulrichsen, Kristian (Eds.), The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order . Routledge.
  • Chalcraft, John (2011). Labour protest and hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. In Motta, Sara C., Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Eds.), Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance (pp. 35-58). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chalcraft, John (2011). Migration and popular protest in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf in the 1950s and 1960s. International Labor and Working Class History, 79(1(S)), 28-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014754791000030X
  • Chalcraft, John (2009). The invisible cage: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon. Stanford University Press.
  • Chalcraft, John (2009). Democracy. In Iriye, Akira, Saunier, Pierre-Yves (Eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History: From the Mid-19th Century to the Present Day (pp. 253-255). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chalcraft, John (2008). Question: what are the fruitful new directions in subaltern studies, and how can those working in Middle East studies most productively engage with them? International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40(3), 376-378. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743808080963
  • Chalcraft, John, Noorani, Y (Eds.) (2007). Counterhegemony in the colony and postcolony. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chalcraft, John (2007). Labour in the Levant. New Left Review, 45, 27-47.
  • Chalcraft, John (2007). Popular protest, the market and the state in nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt. In Cronin, S (Ed.), Subalterns and Social Protest: History From Below in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 69-90). Routledge.
  • Chalcraft, John (2006). Internalism of the left. Middle East Report, 238(36), 46-48.
  • Chalcraft, John (2006). Subalternity, material practices and popular aspirations: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon. Arab Studies Journal, 14(2), 9-38.
  • Chalcraft, John (2006). Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon: the limits of transnational integration, communitarian solidarity, and popular agency. (Working paper series 2006/26). Robert Schuman Centre.
  • Chalcraft, John (2006). Syrian workers in Lebanon and the role of the state: political economy and popular aspirations. In De Bel-Air, Francoise (Ed.), Migration et Politique Au Moyen-Orient (pp. 81-104). Institut Français de Proche Orient.
  • Chalcraft, John (2005). Evelyn Baring. In Benjamin, Thomas (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450 . Macmillan Reference.
  • Chalcraft, John (2005). Engaging the state: peasants and petitions in Egypt on the eve of colonial rule. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37(3), 303-325. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743805052098
  • Chalcraft, John (2005). Of specters and disciplined commodities: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon. Middle East Report, 236 Fa(3).
  • Chalcraft, John (2005). Pluralising capital, challenging Eurocentrism: toward post-Marxist historiography. Radical History Review, 91(Winter), 13-39. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-91-7
  • Chalcraft, John (2005). The end of the guilds in Egypt: restructuring textiles in the long nineteenth century. In Faroqhi, Suraiya, Deguilhem, Randi (Eds.), Crafts and Craftsmen in the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean (pp. 338-368). I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Chalcraft, John (2004). The striking cabbies of Cairo and other stories: crafts and guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914. State University of New York Press.
  • Chalcraft, John (2002). The Cairo cab strike of 1907. In Philipp, Thomas, Hanssen, Jens, Weber, Stefan (Eds.), Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire (pp. 173-200). Ergon Verlag.
  • Chalcraft, John (2001). The coal-heavers of Port Sa'id: state-making and worker protest, 1869-1914. International Labor and Working Class History, 60, 110-124.
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  • Chalcraft, John (25 June 2025) Is there a way to fight back? LSE Department of Government Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Chalcraft, John (14 November 2023) Another catastrophe in the Middle East. LSE Department of Government Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Chalcraft, John (2021). Middle East popular politics in Gramscian perspective. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 41(3), 469 – 484. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9408015 picture_as_pdf
  • Chalcraft, John (2021). Revolutionary weakness in Gramscian perspective: the Arab Middle East and North Africa since 2011. Middle East Critique, 30(1), 87 - 104. https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2021.1872858 picture_as_pdf
  • Chalcraft, John (2020). Egypt’s 2011 uprising, subaltern cultural politics, and revolutionary weakness. Social Movement Studies, 20(6), 669 - 685. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2020.1837101 picture_as_pdf
  • Chalcraft, John (2019). The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and radical democracy. In Feldman, David (Ed.), Boycotts Past and Present: From the American Revolution to the Campaign to Boycott Israel (pp. 287 - 310). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94872-0
  • Chalcraft, John (2018). The social life of contentious ideas: piracy and unruly, translocal appropriation in the Arab Uprisings and beyond. In Volpi, Frédéric, Jasper, James (Eds.), Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings: Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters (pp. 41-65). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985131/CH01 picture_as_pdf
  • Chalcraft, John (2017). What can academics and activists learn from each other?
  • Chalcraft, John (2016). The Arab uprisings of 2011 in historical perspective. In Ghazal, Amal, Hanssen, Jens (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672530.013.13
  • Chalcraft, John (2015). Out of the frying pan, into the fire: protest, the state, and the end of the guilds in Egypt. In Faroqhi, Suraiya (Ed.), Bread from the Lion's Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities (pp. 278-292). Berghahn Books.
  • Chalcraft, John (2010). Monarchy, migration and hegemony in the Arabian Peninsula. (Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States 12). London School of Economics and Political Science.
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  • Chalcraft, John (2017). The social life of contentious ideas: piracy and unruly appropriation in the Arab uprisings and beyond. In Goodwin, James, Volpi, Frederic (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Social Movements in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings . Amsterdam University Press. picture_as_pdf