Vivek Chibber
Vivek Chibber | |
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Chibber at the 2015 Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia | |
| Born | Vivek Aslam Chibber 1965 (age 59–60) India |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Locked in Place (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 |
| Main interests | Development |
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.