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Vivek Chibber

Sociology

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.

Facts
Birth Year
1965 1
Birthplace
India 1
Nationality / Culture
American 1
Defining Contribution
Argued that developmental-state literature had unduly ignored the constraints class power imposed on state-building 1
Notable Work
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India 1
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1. Wikipedia: Vivek Chibber
  • Lead, first sentence, birth year
    born 1965
  • Infobox, birth_place
    India
  • Lead, first sentence, nationality
    American academic
  • Career, first paragraph
    the literature on developmental states had unduly ignored the constraints that class power imposed on state-building
  • Lead, first paragraph, second sentence
    Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India
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