Nacido en 1946,^[1]​ ha sido profesor en las universidades de Exeter y Oxford.^[2]​ Autor de estudios sobre movimientos sociales,^[3]​ ha publicado trabajos sobre diversos aspectos de la historia contemporánea de Brasil,^[4]​ España,^[5]​ y México.^[6]​^[7]​^[8]​^[9]​ entre otros temas.

Entre sus publicaciones se encuentran:

Autor

• The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press, 1981).^[4]​
• Making Democracy in Spain: Grass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1989).^[5]​^{[nota 1]}​
• Popular Mobilization in Mexico: The Teachers' Movement 1977–87 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).^[6]​^[7]​^[8]​^[9]​
• Theorizing Social Movements, Critical Studies on Latin America (Pluto Press, 1995).^[10]​
• Citizenship Rights and Social Movements: A Comparative and Statistical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 1997), junto a Todd Landman.^[11]​
• Governing Latin America (PolityPress and Blackwell Publishers, 2003), junto a Neil F. Harvey y Todd Landman.

Editor

• Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990), junto a Ann L. Craig.^[12]​

• Assies, Willem (1996). «Theorizing Social Movements, Critical Studies on Latin America by Joe Foweraker». Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe / European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (60): 127-129. ISSN 0924-0608. JSTOR 25675700. 
• Craske, Nikki (1995). «Joe Foweraker, Popular Mobilisation in Mexico: The Teachers' Movement, 1977–87 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. iii+204, $59.95, £35.». Journal of Latin American Studies 27 (03): 728-729. ISSN 1469-767X. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00011822. 
• ——; Lehmann, David (abril de 2002). «Fifty Years of Research in Latin American Studies in the UK». Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (72): 61-80. ISSN 0924-0608. Archivado desde el original el 16 de agosto de 2016. Consultado el 23 de julio de 2016. 
• Haber, Paul Lawrence (1996). «Identity and Political Process: Recent Trends in the Study of Latin American Social Movements». Latin American Research Review 31 (1): 171-188. ISSN 0023-8791. JSTOR 2503855. 
• Kandell, Jonathan (marzo de 1982). «The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day by Joe Foweraker». Foreign Affairs. 
• Malefakis, Edward (1992). «Spanish Working-Class History». International Labor and Working-Class History (41): 49-57. ISSN 0147-5479. JSTOR 27671994. 
• Nunley, Mary Christopher (marzo de 1992). «Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico. Joe Foweraker and Ann L. Craig (editors). Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 1990. xiv +314 pp., bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), $15.95 paper. ISBN 1-55587-211-5, ISBN 1-55587-219-0». The Latin American Anthropology Review 4 (1): 31-32. doi:10.1525/jlca.1992.4.1.31. 
• Oxhorn, Philip (1996). «Popular Mobilization in Mexico: The Teachers' Movement 1977–87 by Joe Foweraker.». Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 20 (2): 364-366. ISSN 0384-8167. JSTOR 27763290. 
• —— (1999). «The Ambiguous Link: Social Movements and Democracy in Latin America». Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 41 (3): 129-146. ISSN 0022-1937. JSTOR 166161. doi:10.2307/166161. 
• Pansters, Wil (1995). «Popular Mobilization in Mexico. The Teachers' Movement, 1977-1987 by Joe Foweraker». Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe / European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (58): 114-116. ISSN 0924-0608. JSTOR 25675667.