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

with Professor Ryan Cecil Jobson 

December 3, 2024
5:00 to 7:00 pm

Hybrid event: In-person in NAC 6/316 and virtually via Zoom

Join us for a book talk with Professor Ryan Cecil Jobson where he revisits this equation of fossil fuels and political power through one of the oldest and least talked about theaters of petrocapitalism: the twin-island Caribbean republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Ryan Cecil Jobson is an anthropologist and social critic of the Caribbean and the Americas. His research and teaching engage issues of energy and extractivism, states and sovereignty, climate and crisis, race and capital.

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