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“This luminous work is a magisterial account of the Trinbagonian petro-state as a continuation of the plantation economy that characterized much of the Caribbean and the colonized world. If you want to know more about how oil runs through the veins of the colonial and postcolonial world, you need to read this book.” * Laleh Khalili, University of Exeter * “Taking the hydrocarbon-rich island of Trinidad as a microcosm of the predicament of the postcolonial state, The Petro-state Masquerade offers at once a welcome model of critical anthropological inquiry and an incisive account of the dissimulations of national identity and economic security that characterize the legitimating spectacles of Caribbean sovereignty.” * David Scott, Columbia University *

“Taking the hydrocarbon-rich island of Trinidad as a microcosm of the predicament of the postcolonial state, The Petro-state Masquerade offers at once a welcome model of critical anthropological inquiry and an incisive account of the dissimulations of national identity and economic security that characterize the legitimating spectacles of Caribbean sovereignty.” * David Scott, Columbia University *

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Ryan Cecil Jobson is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity, and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Center for Latin American Studies, at the University of Chicago.

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