1. Vivek Aslam Chibber was born on 1965 and 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.
10 Facts About Vivek Chibber
1. 2.
In 2017, Vivek Chibber launched Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, with Robert Brenner, published by Jacobin magazine.
3.
Vivek Chibber was born in India in 1965, and moved to the United States in 1980, where he has lived since.
4.
Vivek Chibber completed a BA in political science in 1987 at Northwestern University.
5.
Vivek Chibber began as an assistant professor at New York University in 1999, where he is a full professor.
6.
Vivek Chibber argued that the literature on developmental state had unduly ignored the constraints that class power imposed on state-building, particularly the power and influence of domestic capitalists.
7.
Vivek Chibber showed that the main reason Indian industrial policy only met with middling success was that domestic capital blocked attempts to build an effective planning apparatus.
8.
Vivek Chibber's book was widely acclaimed and won several awards including, in 2005, Barrington Moore Book Award, and honorable mention for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Publication Prize.
9.
Vivek Chibber took Subaltern Studies as a representative of the key sociological and historical arguments in postcolonial studies.
10.
Vivek Chibber responded in turn, denying that he had misrepresented his interlocutors and launching a counterattack of his own.