Vivek Aslam Chibber is an American sociologist, born in 1965, who is a professor of sociology at New York University and a social theorist writing on development, social theory and politics. His books include Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (2003), Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013), which argues that postcolonial theory's rejection of universalist categories from classical Marxism and Enlightenment social science is mistaken, and The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (2022). In 2017 he launched Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy with Robert Brenner.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionArgued that developmental-state literature had unduly ignored the constraints class power imposed on state-building 1 Notable WorkLocked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India 1 In the Other Atlases
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born 1965
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India
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American academic
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the literature on developmental states had unduly ignored the constraints that class power imposed on state-building
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Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India
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