Humanities Classroom 204

Abstract: 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 […]

With its emergence as India’s IT Capital, the city of Bengaluru has experienced exponential growth since the early 1990s. As agricultural fields give way to highways and residential developments, residents of Bengaluru and its outskirts narrate their city as poised at the edge, between the glamour of a globally connected IT hub and the destruction […]