Vivek Chibber

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

1965 (age 5960)
India
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisLocked in Place (1999)
Doctoral advisorErik Olin Wright
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-discipline
School or traditionAnalytical Marxism
InstitutionsNew York University
Doctoral studentsDavid Masondo
Main interestsDevelopment

Vivek Aslam Chibber (born 1965) 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 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.