Contents

Introduction: The Chibber Debate—Achin Vanaik

How Does the Subaltern Speak? An Interview with Vivek Chibber

PART I. DEBATES

1.Subaltern Studies and Capital—Partha Chatterjee

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

3.Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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

5.Subaltern-Speak—Bruce Robbins

6.Reply to Bruce Robbins—Vivek Chibber

PART II. REVIEW SYMPOSIUM

7.Review Symposium on Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital—Ho-fung Hung

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

9.Back to Basics? The Recurrence of the Same in Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital—Bruce Cumings

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

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

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

13.Confronting Postcolonial Theory: A Response to Critics—Vivek Chibber

PART III. COMMENTARIES

14.Subaltern Stakes—Timothy Brennan

15.Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, Review Essay—Stein Sundstøl Eriksen

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

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