The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations

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.” It immediately unleashed one of the most important recent debates in social theory, ranging across the humanities and social sciences, on the status of postcolonial studies, modernity, and much else.

This book brings together major critics of Chibber’s work to assess the efficacy of his argument from differing perspectives. Included are Chibber’s own spirited responses and reformulations in light of these criticisms. With contributions by Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Spivak, Bruce Robbins, Ho-fung Hung, William H. Sewell, Jr., Bruce Cumings, George Steinmetz, Michael Schwartz, David Pederson, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, and Achin Vanaik.
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The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations

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.” It immediately unleashed one of the most important recent debates in social theory, ranging across the humanities and social sciences, on the status of postcolonial studies, modernity, and much else.

This book brings together major critics of Chibber’s work to assess the efficacy of his argument from differing perspectives. Included are Chibber’s own spirited responses and reformulations in light of these criticisms. With contributions by Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Spivak, Bruce Robbins, Ho-fung Hung, William H. Sewell, Jr., Bruce Cumings, George Steinmetz, Michael Schwartz, David Pederson, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, and Achin Vanaik.
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The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

by Vivek Chibber
The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

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Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations

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.” It immediately unleashed one of the most important recent debates in social theory, ranging across the humanities and social sciences, on the status of postcolonial studies, modernity, and much else.

This book brings together major critics of Chibber’s work to assess the efficacy of his argument from differing perspectives. Included are Chibber’s own spirited responses and reformulations in light of these criticisms. With contributions by Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Spivak, Bruce Robbins, Ho-fung Hung, William H. Sewell, Jr., Bruce Cumings, George Steinmetz, Michael Schwartz, David Pederson, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, and Achin Vanaik.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784786953
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 12/08/2016
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 2.70(d)

About the Author

Rosie Warren is Assistant Editor at Verso Books, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Salvage.

Vivek Chibber is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital and Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India, which won the Barrington Moore, Jr. Prize. He has contributed to, among others, the Socialist Register, American Journal of Sociology, Boston Review and New Left Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Chibber Debate Achin Vanaik 1

How Does the Subaltern Speak? An Interview with Vivek Chibber 15

Part I Debates

1 Subaltern Studies and Capital Partha Chatterjee 31

2 Subaltern Studies Revisited: A Response to Partha Chatterjee Vivek Chibber 49

3 Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 71

4 Making Sense of Postcolonial Theory: A Response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Vivek Chibber 91

5 Subaltern-Speak Bruce Robbins 103

6 Reply to Bruce Robbins Vivek Chibber 115

Part II Review Symposium

7 Review Symposium on Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital Ho-fung Hung 123

8 On Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital William H. Sewell, Jr. 125

9 Back to Basics? The Recurrence of the Same in Vivek Grubber's Postcolonial Theory AND the Specter of Capital Bruce Cumings 131

10 On the Articulation of Marxist and Non-Marxist Theory in Colonial Historiography George Steinmetz 139

11 Capitalist Development, Structural Constraint, and Human Agency in the Global South: An Appreciation of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory AND the Specter of Capital Michael Schwartz 149

12 Minding Appearances: The Labor of Representation in Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital David Pedersen 159

13 Confronting Postcolonial Theory: A Response to Critics Vivek Chibber 169

Part III Commentaries

14 Subaltern Stakes-Timothy Brennan 183

15 Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, Review Essay-Stein Sundstøl Eriksen 203

16 Looking for Resistance in All the Wrong Places? Chibber, Chakrabarty, and a Tale of Two Histories Viren Murthy 215

Credits 257

References 261

Notes 275

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