Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber
Chibber at the 2015 Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
Born
Vivek Aslam Chibber

1965 (age 58–59)
India
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisLocked in Place[1] (1999)
Doctoral advisorErik Olin Wright
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-discipline
School or traditionAnalytical Marxism
InstitutionsNew York University
Doctoral studentsDavid Masondo[2]
Main interestsDevelopment

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.

  1. ^ Chibber, Vivek (1990). Locked in Place: State Building and the Failure of Industrial Policy in India, 1940–1970 (PhD dissertation). Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin–Madison. ProQuest 304540133. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  2. ^ Masondo, David (2014). Post-Apartheid Business Nanny State: Case Study of the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP), 1995–2010 (PhD). New York University. ProQuest 1614473038.
  3. ^ "New York University Profile". nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-06-20.