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Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
With the raging culture war and debates around Critical Race Theory we will discuss how Postmodern theory became a dominant force in academia that derailed materialist analysis of social and political phenomena. In this episode we will investigate the origins of postmodern thought and its consequences for today’s politics.
About Vivek:
Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.
Articles:
"Making Sense of Postcolonial theory: a response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 27:3, 617-624, DOI:10.1080/09557571.2014.943593 [Download/read: ResponsetoSpivak.pdf, 79.76 kB]
"Subaltern Studies Revisited - a Response to Partha Chatterjee [Longer version]," Economic and Political Weekly, March 1, 2014. [Download/read: SubalternStudiedRevisited.pdf, 224.12 kB]
"Capitalism, Class, and Universalism: Escaping the Cul-de-sac of Postcolonial Theory," The Socialist Register, 2014. [Download/read: Capitalism, Class.pdf, 76.88kB]
"Organized Interests, Development Strategies, and Social Policies", R. Nagaraj ed., Growth, Inequality, and Social Policy in India, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. [Download/read: Organized_interests.pdf, 1,802kb]
Books:
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Verso, 2013.
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India
Princeton University Press, 2003.
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