Patrick Chabal

5.7k citations
122 papers · 3.5k · 1 hit paper · h-index 25

Impact in

  • Development top 0.2%
    • International Development and Aid
  • Anthropology top 0.5%
    • African history and culture studies
    • Anthropological Studies and Insights

Papers in

Patrick Chabal

99 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Patrick Chabal's Hit Papers

Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument 1999 · 1.4k citations
1.4k0+9+18Years since publication4008001.2k

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Patrick Chabal
Comparison fields: 5 of 100
  • Development 626
  • Anthropology 745
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.1k
  • Political Science and International Relations 995
  • Urban Studies 143
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The 21 scholars most cited alongside Patrick Chabal, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument
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19991396
2 1997162
3 2009132
4 1990119
5 200094
6 198690
7 198789
8
State in society: studying how states and societies transform and constitute one another.
200276
9 199273
10 200371
11 200268
12
Chiefs know their boundaries: essays on property, power and the past in Asante, 1896-1996
200267
13
Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles
200966
14
Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning
200565
15 198465
16 199855
17
A history of modern Africa: 1800 to the present.
201051
18
The African Crisis: context and interpretation
199646
19 199640
20 201230

About Patrick Chabal

Patrick Chabal is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Development and Literature and Literary Theory, having authored 122 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include African history and culture studies (28 papers), International Development and Aid (8 papers), African history and culture analysis (6 papers), Literature, Culture, and Criticism (4 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (3 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 papers), Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies (3 papers) and African Studies and Geopolitics (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Development (626 citations), Anthropology (745 citations), Sociology and Political Science (2.1k citations), Political Science and International Relations (995 citations) and Urban Studies (143 citations). Patrick Chabal has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and Portugal. Frequent co-authors include Jean‐Pascal Daloz, Gail M. Gerhart, Richard Sandbrook, Eghosa E. Osaghae, Gerhard Seibert, Peter Skalník, Sara Rich Dorman, Michel Cahen, Malyn Newitt and Gary M. Feinman. Their work appears in journals such as International Affairs, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Portuguese Studies and African Affairs.

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