Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber is an American academic, professor of sociology at New York University, theorist and editor. His areas of interest are development, social theory and politics. He is a contributor to Socialist Register, American Journal of Sociology, Boston Review and New Left Review. He is the author of three books, The Class Matrix. Social theory after the cultural turn, Postcolonial theory and the specter of capitalism and Locked in Place: state-building and late industrialization in India, for which he was awarded the Barrington Moore prize in 2005. Chibber, in collaboration with Robert Brenner, launched the scientific journal Catalyst: Journal of Theory and Strategy in 2017, with the support of Jacobin magazine.