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- Chibber, Vivek
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Vivek Chibber is an Indian academic, Marxist theorist, editor and a professor of sociology.
- Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
- How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Vivek Chibber argues that postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril. Focusing particularly on the strain of postcolonial theory known as subaltern studies, Chibber makes a strong case for why we can -- and must -- conceptualize the non-Western world through the same analytical lens that we use to understand developments in the West. He offers a sustained defense of theoretical approaches that emphasize universal categories like capitalism and class. His work constitutes an argument for the continued relevance of Marxism in the face of some of its most trenchant critics.
- Humanism Betrayed
Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
- The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism: The Discourse of Edward Said
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
ONE OF THE fundamental discoveries of Marxist historiography is that capitalism as a world system has developed unevenly, with the operations of the “free market” determined by unplanned but (after analysis) “lawful” tendencies of accumulation of surplus value.
With the rise of merchant capitalism, diverse modes of production with varying temporalities and “superstructural” effects have since then reconfigured the planet. In a new cartography, we find...
- Marxism and "Subaltern Studies"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
- Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1997
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