This essay examines the dynamics of oil-driven sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago, highlighting implications for freedom.
This essay takes up the questions that Ryan Cecil Jobson's The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago (2024) provokes: Who performs sovereignty in the age of oil—and to what ends? Reading the dueling theatrics of corporate and state power alongside popular attachments to fossil fuels, the author asks how the masquerade of petro-sovereignty endures and what forms of collective freedom might yet emerge from within its contradictions.
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