مؤلف: Vivek Chibber

Why were some countries able to build ‘developmental states’ in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India’s experience, Locked in Place argu …

Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centra …

Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizi …

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Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people to organize around …

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Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as ‘without any doubt . a bomb, ‘ and ‘the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical r …

The remarkable run of self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’ Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversat …