The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
Humanities Classroom 204 1030 N. Columbia Ave., Claremont, CAAbstract: The Petro-State Masquerade considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil, natural gas, and their petrochemical derivatives. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Jobson theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power—enshrined in the hyphenated form of […]