| Neoliberal Frontiers: an ethnography of sovereignty in West Africa B Chalfin University of Chicago Press, 2010 | 454 | 2010 |
| Shea butter republic: State power, global markets, and the making of an indigenous commodity B Chalfin Routledge, 2004 | 274 | 2004 |
| Public things, excremental politics, and the infrastructure of bare life in Ghana's city of Tema B Chalfin American Ethnologist 41 (1), 92-109, 2014 | 158 | 2014 |
| Border zone trade and the economic boundaries of the state in north-east Ghana B Chalfin Africa 71 (2), 202-224, 2001 | 124 | 2001 |
| Sovereigns and citizens in close encounter: Airport anthropology and customs regimes in neoliberal Ghana B Chalfin American ethnologist 35 (4), 519-538, 2008 | 105 | 2008 |
| Global customs regimes and the traffic in sovereignty: Enlarging the anthropology of the state B Chalfin Current Anthropology 47 (2), 243-276, 2006 | 85 | 2006 |
| Risky business: economic uncertainty, market reforms and female livelihoods in Northeast Ghana B Chalfin Development and Change 31 (5), 987-1008, 2000 | 82 | 2000 |
| Cars, the customs service, and sumptuary rule in neoliberal Ghana B Chalfin Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 (2), 424-453, 2008 | 67 | 2008 |
| ‘Wastelandia’: Infrastructure and the commonwealth of waste in urban Ghana B Chalfin Ethnos 82 (4), 648-671, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Recasting maritime governance in Ghana: the neo-developmental state and the Port of Tema B Chalfin The Journal of Modern African Studies 48 (4), 573-598, 2010 | 52 | 2010 |
| Governing offshore oil: mapping maritime political space in Ghana and the Western Gulf of Guinea B Chalfin South Atlantic Quarterly 114 (1), 101-118, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Border scans: Sovereignty, surveillance and the customs service in Ghana B Chalfin Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (3), 397-416, 2004 | 46 | 2004 |
| Market reforms and the state: the case of shea in Ghana B Chalfin The Journal of Modern African Studies 34 (3), 421-440, 1996 | 37 | 1996 |
| On-shore, off-shore Takoradi: Terraqueous urbanism, logistics, and oil governance in Ghana B Chalfin Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37 (5), 814-832, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Customs regimes and the materiality of global mobility: Governing the port of Rotterdam B Chalfin American Behavioral Scientist 50 (12), 1610-1630, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Introduction: Fuelling capture: Africa's energy frontiers M Degani, B Chalfin, J Cross The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 38 (2), 1-18, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| Waste work and the dialectics of precarity in urban Ghana: Durable bodies and disposable things B Chalfin Africa 89 (3), 499-520, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Border Security as Late Capitalist "Fix" B Chalfin A Companion to Border Studies 26, 283, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| Old commodities in new niches: The shea economy as frontier B Chalfin African economic history, 51-63, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| Working the border: constructing sovereignty in the context of liberalization B Chalfin PoLAR 24, 129, 2001 | 22 | 2001 |
