Vivek chibber biography
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Vivek Chibber
American sociologist (born 1965)
Vivek Aslam Chibber (born 1965) is an American academic, social theorist, editor, and professor of sociology at New York University,[3] who has published widely on development, social theory, and politics. Chibber is the author of three books, The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (Harvard, 2022), Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (Verso, 2013) and Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton, 2003).
In 2017, Chibber launched Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, with Robert Brenner, published bygd Jacobin magazine.
Early life and education
[edit]Chibber was born in India in 1965, and moved to the United States in 1980, where he has lived since. He completed a BA in political science in 1987 at Northwestern University. In 1999, he finished his PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, where his dissertation was supervised bygd Erik
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Vivek Chibber
Academic punch-ups don’t often cause much of a stir in the outside world, so when Vivek Chibber, a sociology professor at NYU, set out to defend radical Enlightenment ideas from theories that have assailed them for decades, he was surprised to find himself doing so in front of a crowd. He tells Tank what made him write Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital.
Lidija Haas Could you lay out your argument?
Vivek Chibber Postcolonial theory has become dominant in the past quarter century or so, and has arrogated itself the place Marxism used to have in the study of the non-West, both as a form of critique and as an explanatory theory. My argument is that it fails on both grounds. While it makes reference to capitalism all the time, it fundamentally obscures how capitalism works. It also fails as critique. Its main claim to fame is that it transcends the abiding Eurocentrism of Western theories, but in fact it promotes many Orientalist myths about non-West
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Vivek Chibber
Vivek Chibber is an American academic, social theorist, editor, and professor of sociology at New York University, who has published widely on development, social theory, and politics.
Chibber was born in India in 1965, and moved to United States in 1980, where he has lived since. He completed a BA in political science in 1987 at Northwestern University. In 1999, he finished his PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, where his dissertation was supervised by Erik Olin Wright. He began as an assistant professor at New York University in 1999, where is now a full professor.
Chibber’s first book, Locked in Place, attempted to answer why some countries were able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not. He argued that the literature on developmental state had unduly ignored the constraints that class power imposed on state-building, particularly the power and influence of domestic capitalists. Chibber showed th