Vivek Chibber - Böcker

An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by th...

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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 common interests? How do we begin building a mo...

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"e;A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultural theory. It isn't clear how culturalists-especially the anti-Marxist ones-can effectively r...

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A quite thorough and impressive work, not only a compelling defense of materialism but also a fair-minded if highly critical engagement with cultural theory. It isnt clear how culturalistsespecially the anti-Marxist onescan effectively respond to ...

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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 argues that the critical factor was t...

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Why were some countries able to build "e;developmental states"e; in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the ...

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The global economic crisis that closed the first decade of the 21st century has demonstrated that the contradictions of capitalism cannot be overcome. The challenge for socialist analysis is to reveal both the nature of these contradictions in the...

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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 universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this deva...

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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 reasoning published to date.&q...

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Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as "e;without any doubt . a bomb,"e; and "e;the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical reasoning published to date.&quo...

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The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "e;democratic socialist"e; Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversation about socialism. A New York Time...

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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 common interests? How do we begin building a mo...

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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 universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this deva...

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Postkoloniale Theorie ist in den letzten Jahren im akademischen Raum zu einem äußerst einflussreichen Ansatz geworden. Diese Denkschule, mit der Entwicklungen im globalen Süden erklärt werden sollen, ist insbesondere für ihre Kritik an universalis...

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