Vivek Chibber | |
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Born | Vivek Aslam Chibber 1965 (age 58–59) India |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Locked in Place[1] (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Erik Olin Wright |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociology |
Sub-discipline | |
School or tradition | Analytical Marxism |
Institutions | New York University |
Doctoral students | David Masondo[2] |
Main interests | Development |
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 by Jacobin magazine.