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...