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Ryan Cecil Jobson

@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
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associate prof @uchicago. black study. caribbean anthro. yaadie. anarcho-zesser. author of the petro-state masquerade ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 bit.ly/3z2Geyk. yankees. nets. jets. chelsea fc.

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:
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Desiring Freedom
A groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New Cultures of Energy pod! We speak with Ryan Cecil Jobson about his fascinating work in Trinidad and how petrostates try to masquerade their way into the future. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/ytekzctk
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Cultures of Energy: 259 - Petrostates (feat. Ryan Cecil Jobson)
The China adventure continues for your two co-hosts. Cymene and Dominic report from Zhangzhou, a small city of five million in Fujian province, and talk about party hotel life and what might have been...
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
TA Vol. 34 No. 1 is now available! Read Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson’s full editorial by following the link in our bio!
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social out now!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our Spring 2026 Issue is out now! With articles on Black geographies and ecological care, educational reform, institutional exclusion, and residential segregation, this issue moves across sites of US Empire while insisting on unsettling dominant spatial orders and conjuring geographies of our own.
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
SX 79 features a discussion of @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social ‘s book “The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago.” The essays are available through @dukepress.bsky.social; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 !
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New book forum on The Petro-state Masquerade is out in the latest issue of @smallaxeproject.bsky.social. Grateful for the careful, critical engagement with my book by my dear colleagues Brent Crosson and Chelsea Schields. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
On Dimanche Gras, I wrote about how imperialism in the Caribbean feels from Trinidad’s North Coast. Blessings to the Joseph and Samaroo families and the people of Las Cuevas. portolan-journal.org?post=a-carib...
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
For our special issue we are honored to feature Michel-Rolph Trouillot's previously unpublished manuscript "Banana Wars: The Sweetness of Commodities," edited by Ryan Cecil Jobson.
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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Missed our book club with @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social? 📚 Watch the full recording here: vimeo.com/1154794909 Tune in for discussion on imperialist resource grabs in the Caribbean and what Trinidad & Tobago's history of workers' struggle can teach us about fighting for a just transition.
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Resisting Mining Book Club: “The Petro-State Masquerade” with Ryan Cecil Jobson
For our first Resisting Mining Book Club of 2026 we welcomed Ryan Cecil Jobson to discuss his book, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad…
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This essay meditates on the dual meaning of power—radiant power and political power—that surfaced in the anticolonial struggle for Chaguaramas. The scientific fact of radiation remained secondary to the political fact of radiation as a basis for working-class power. Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/2u67sbs7
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
When I wrote this article on CLR James’s coverage of a radiation controversy at the US base in Trinidad, I couldn’t imagine that we’d find ourselves in another this week. Links below to my essays in Small Axe and Clash! read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar... medium.com/clash-voices...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Our new issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social is out! Featuring an editorial by me and Christen Smith, unpublished manuscripts and translations from Marlene Cunha, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Ellen Irene Diggs, and articles by Pyar Seth and Nala Williams. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
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Transforming Anthropology | Vol 33, No 2
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our latest issue on the “Archives of Black Anthropology” is now available online! We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For friends headed to New Orleans for the AAAs, mark your calendars for our roundtable on Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital, a book discussion with Christien Tompkins, and a video installation on militarism in the southern Caribbean that I curated with Brent Crosson. #ABAxTA_NOLA
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Maya Singhal @mayasinghal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Book Club is back for AAA! We’ll be talking about @cptompkins.bsky.social’s book A Burdensome Experiment on Saturday (11/22) 3-4pm. RSVP for the location: partiful.com/e/oYY9D6L1l8... @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
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RSVP to Book Club Live @ AAA: A Burdensome Experiment | Partiful
Join us for our third annual live Book Club at AAA in New Orleans, hosted by Ryan Jobson, Michael Ralph, and Maya Singhal! We will be in conversation with Christien Philmarc Tompkins to discuss his book, A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina. We will send the location to everyone RSVPed a few hours before the event (it will be somewhere in or around the conference space).
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
An open-access download of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy is now available. This new edition features an introduction by yours truly and an afterword by Schuyler Esprit. haubooks.org/wp-content/u...
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Alyssa Adina James, PhD @alyssadinajames.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe! Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage! Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO Contributors @doctorjc.bsky.social Krystal Ghisyawan @julianisenia.bsky.social @larrylafountain.bsky.social Moderated by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new editorial leadership of Christen Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson, features beautiful cover art by Madjeen Isaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“Foenem on that Popemobile”
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Trini Trent 🇹🇹 @trinitrent.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is so well done! At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded. I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹
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Matt Bishop @matthewlbishop.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social medium.com/clash-voices...
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Red Wedding: Trinidad and Tobago After Keith Rowley
Ten years after working people brokered a marriage of convenience with Rowley and the PNM, this red wedding ended in a political bloodbath.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Thank you, World Boss, for ranking me on your list of favorite Caribbean intellectuals. 🙏🏽
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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.” Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛 substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application
reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Soon 🙏🏽
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Friday!
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
My father’s story about class, color, currency, and (anti)communism in the Jamaican 1970s is now the subject of a Storyworth podcast episode. Grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with my Dad on this chapter in Caribbean history. t.co/157jzXndk1
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Two events coming up in Bloomington, March 10-11. See you soon at IU and Red Bud Books!
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
An unforgettable moment. Thanks again to my comrades Michael Watts and William Balan-Gaubert!
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I held on to this piece for quite a while, a personal essay and review of Brian Lara’s memoir. I hope you enjoy my second foray into cricket writing, which is to say a work of political writing as well. medium.com/clash-voices...
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Brian Lara’s West Indies
Lara faced the tall order of resurrecting a dream of a region that its leaders had long abandoned.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Next Thursday, Chicago!
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Estêvão Willian can’t get to London fast enough.
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Me at the energy studies working group
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Blessed by the love for The Petro-state Masquerade in the Bocas Lit Fest book bulletin for today’s Trinidad Express. The reception from friends and comrades in T&T has been nothing short of incredible. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fazeer Mohammed captures not only the state of West Indies Cricket, but the state of the West Indies themselves. A masterclass by @CaribCricket podcast. youtu.be/9f_6-J5KmeU?...
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Saving West Indies Cricket ft Fazeer Mohammed
YouTube video by Caribbean Cricket Podcast
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Jus’ reach 🙏🏽 ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Chicago friends—we officially launch of The Petro-state Masquerade on Thursday, February 20 @SeminaryCoop. I’ll be joined in conversation by oil scholar par excellence, Michael Watts, and Caribbean philosopher (and Hyde Park legend) William Balan-Gaubert. www.semcoop.com/event/ryan-c...
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Catch me at Rice Anthropology this Thursdsy in snowy H-Town!
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Sexualities: patería/makoumé/kambrada/friend & family Keywords in Caribbean Studies Jacqueline Couti Krystal Ghisyawan @julianisenia.bsky.social @larrylafountain.bsky.social Moderated by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Perez-Rosario Friday, 7 March, 12:00pm RSVP: tinyurl.com/sxsexuality
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