Chalcraft, John

Dr John Chalcraft  

Department

Position held

Associate Professor (Reader) in the History and Politics of Empire/Imperialism

 

Experience keywords:

Egypt; Lebanon; Middle East; Syria; guilds; hegemony; history from below; history; labour; migration; postcolonialism; social movements; transnationalism

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I research history from below and popular politics in the modern Arab world. I have written on the histories of workers and migrants in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and the Arabian peninsula from the eighteenth century to the present. I have also published on postcolonial approaches to history-writing. My current work focuses on contentious politics, social movements and transnationalism.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Egypt; Europe; Lebanon; Middle East; Syria

Languages:

Arabic [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6630

Publications

2015

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. International studies in social history (25). Berghahn Books , Oxford, UK, 278-292. ISBN 9781782385585

Chalcraft, John (2015) The Arab uprisings of 2011 in historical perspective In: Ghazal, Amal and Hanssen, Jens, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History . Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199672530

Chalcraft, John (2015) The BDS movement and radical democracy In: Feldman, David, (ed.) Boycotts Past and Present. Palgrave, London, UK.

2014

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. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 155-179. ISBN 9781107028630

2012

Chalcraft, John (2012) Egypt’s uprising, Mohammed Bouazizi, and the failure of neoliberalism The Maghreb Review, 37 (3-4). 195-214. ISSN 0309-457X

Chalcraft, John (2012) Horizontalism in the Egyptian revolutionary process Middle East Report (1 Jan 2012) 6-11

2011

Chalcraft, John (2011) Migration politics in the Arabian Peninsula In: Held, David and Ulrichsen, Kristian, (eds.) The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415574518

Chalcraft, John (2011) Labour protest and hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula In: Motta, Sara C. and Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, (eds.) Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance. Rethinking international development series. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, 35-58. ISBN 9780230243491

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. ISSN 0147-5479

2010

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, London, UK.

2009

Chalcraft, John (2009) Democracy In: Iriye, Akira and Saunier, Pierre-Yves, (eds.) The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History: From the Mid-19th Century to the Present Day. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK, 253-255. ISBN 9781403992956

Chalcraft, John (2009) The invisible cage: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. Stanford University Press, Stanford, USA. ISBN 9780804758253

2008

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. ISSN 0020-7438

2007

Chalcraft, John and Noorani, Y, eds (2007) Counterhegemony in the colony and postcolony Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230019188

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. SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East. Routledge, London, UK, 69-90. ISBN 9780415423557

Chalcraft, John (2007) Labour in the Levant New Left Review, 45. 27-47. ISSN 0028-6060

2006

Chalcraft, John (2006) Internalism of the left Middle East Report, 238 (36). 46-48. ISSN 0899-2851

Chalcraft, John (2006) Subalternity, material practices and popular aspirations: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon Arab Studies Journal, 14 (2). 9-38. ISSN 1083-4753

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. Institut Français de Proche Orient, 81-104. ISBN 9782351590379

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 for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

2005

Chalcraft, John (2005) Evelyn Baring In: Benjamin, Thomas, (ed.) Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450. Macmillan Reference, New York, USA. ISBN 9780028658438

Chalcraft, John (2005) Of specters and disciplined commodities: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon Middle East Report, 236 Fa (3). ISSN 0899-2851

Chalcraft, John (2005) Pluralising capital, challenging Eurocentrism: toward post-Marxist historiography Radical History Review, 91 (Winter). 13-39. ISSN 0163-6545

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. ISSN 0020-7438

Chalcraft, John (2005) The end of the guilds in Egypt: restructuring textiles in the long nineteenth century In: Faroqhi, Suraiya and Deguilhem, Randi, (eds.) Crafts and Craftsmen in the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean. Islamic Mediterranean Series. I. B. Tauris, London, UK, 338-368. ISBN 1860647006

2004

Chalcraft, John (2004) The striking cabbies of Cairo and other stories: crafts and guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914 SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. ISBN 0791461432

2002

Chalcraft, John (2002) The Cairo cab strike of 1907 In: Philipp, Thomas and Hanssen, Jens and Weber, Stefan, (eds.) Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire. Ergon Verlag, Beirut, 173-200. ISBN 9783935556897

2001

Chalcraft, John (2001) The coal-heavers of Port Sa'id: state-making and worker protest, 1869-1914 International Labour and Working Class History, 60. 110-124. ISSN 0147-5479

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