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The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Dr Ryan Cecil Jobson's recently published book examines how narratives of endless resources clash with the realities of a dwindling petroleum economy. Drawing on his recently published book, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr Ryan Cecil Jobson examines the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Despite the twin-island nation’s increasingly vulnerable financial condition, government officials continue to promote it as a land of inexhaustible resources and potentially limitless profits. Jobson analyses the gulf between this narrative crafted by the postcolonial state and the vexed realities of its dwindling petroleum-fuelled aspirations. Foregrounding the concurrent masquerades of oil workers, activists, and Carnival revellers, Jobson argues that the promise of decolonization lies in the disarticulation of natural resources, capital, and political power by ordinary people in the Caribbean. Ryan Cecil Jobson is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he also holds faculty appointments in the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity. His research engages issues of energy and extractivism, states and sovereignty, climate and crisis, race and capital.