Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber was born in Delhi, India. He is a professor of sociology at New York University, where he has been since receiving his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin in 1999. He is author of Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton: 2003), as well as articles on imperialism, Marxist theory, long-term historical change, and the political economy of development.

Socialist publications

Chibber is associate editor of the Socialist Register, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Agrarian Change, Politics and Society, and other journals.

The ABC's of Socialism

The “ABCs of Socialism” series was sponsored by Verso Books and Jacobin.,, Vivek Chibber contributed to the series.

The ABCs of Socialism

• Illustrated by Phil Wrigglesworth

Contributions by Nicole Aschoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Jonah Birch, Vivek Chibber, Danny Katch, Chris Maisano, Nivedita Majumdar, Michael A. McCarthy, Joseph M. Schwartz, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Adaner Usmani and Erik Olin Wright.

Edited by Bhaskar Sunkara

Left Forum 2013

Grassroots Visions of Socialism: The Growing Vision of Alternatives to Capitalism Emerging from Contemporary Social Movements

• Rishi Awatramani, Chair Beyond Capitalism Project
• Maria Poblet
• Mazibuko Jara Amandla!
• John Cronan, Jr.
• Vivek Chibber

Left Forum

Vivek Chibber, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Bill Fletcher Jr., Frances Fox Piven and David Graeber were speakers on the closing plenary, Visions for the Future at the Left Forum. The forum was held March 9 - 11, 2007 at Cooper Union College, New York City

In 2009, the Left Forum board included Stanley Aronowitz, Roderick Bush, Eric Canepa, Vivek Chibber, Nancy Holmstrom, Jamie McCallum, Lorraine Minnite, Frances Fox Piven, Hobart Spalding, Bill Tabb, Richard D. Wolf and Julia Wrigley.