Chetan Bhatt
Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory · Department of Sociology · London School of Economics and Political Science
⭐ 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 plat
Research interests
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.
Selected publications (since 2023)
[Article] Antiracism and the current moment - 26 Apr 2026 - By Chetan Bhatt
[Report And Working Paper] Better Together. Understanding the 2022 violence in Leicester. A report by the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2022 Leicester violence - 01 Jan 2026 - By Chetan Bhatt, Vedika Puri, Syed Fahad Kamal, Sasha Patel, Subir Sinha, Sagar Abraham Gonsalves, Suresh Grover, Lisa Magarrell, Juan E. Mendez, Neelim Sultan
[Book Section] The morphology of banal fascism: investigating fascist lies during 2020 - 31 Dec 2025 - By Chetan Bhatt
[Article] Morality plays - 18 Sep 2025 - By Chetan Bhatt
[Article] Identity politics of the left and right: an interview with Chetan Bhatt - 13 Jul 2025 - By Chetan Bhatt, Stephen Cowden, Rashmi Varma
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