Ryan Cecil Jobson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 85257 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ryan Cecil Jobson |
| PRENOMES | Ryan Cecil |
| SOBRENOME | Jobson |
| ASSINATURA | JOBSON R C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3387-0080 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 338 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What the Petro-state Does Do
This essay responds to the critical reflections on The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago (2024) offered by Chelsea Schields and J. Brent Crosson. Meditating on the petro-state as a political form not limited to petroleum-exporting nations, it proposes instead that we tend to the petro-state as an arrangement of power that structures Caribbean political life after the oil price shocks of 1973. Finally, this…
To the Readers of Transforming Anthropology
Radiation and the Question of Power
In the late colonial British West Indies, movements for independence launched demands for the democratic control of land and natural resources. In petroleum-rich Trinidad, however, oil was not the only theater in which energy matters fueled anticolonial agitation. In 1959, public fears mounted over a secret missile tracking station built by the US military at its Chaguaramas base on Trinidad’s northwest peninsula. Subsequently, rumors of hazardou…
Address to Black Anthropologists (1978)
Black Anthropology and Its Archives
Banana Wars
Extractivism's limits
In this multiauthored conversation on the limits of extractivism, Ryan Cecil Jobson, Macarena Gómez Barris, Cymene Howe, and Mareike Winchell collectively reflect on the erasures and displacements of extractivism, and how it works to produce affective and material outcomes. They take time to imagine the possible, or the aspirational, futures in a postextractive world or worlds, while recognizing that "extractivism" itself has become a way of mark…
Facing the flames
In June 1939, Melville Herskovits arrived in Trinidad. Already committed to his eponymous thesis of African cultural survivals, he identified the rural municipality of Toco as a site to observe "African ways of life ... in greatest purity." The oil field strikes that gripped the island just two years earlier received only a passing mention in his monograph, Trinidad Village. This essay meditates on Herskovits's field notes to consider how a Boasi…
Keywords in Caribbean Studies
This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of the field of Caribbean studies
States of Crisis, Flags of Convenience
This essay serves as an introduction to the special section "States of Crisis." Principally a meditation on political and ecological crisis in the Caribbean, this introduction revisits two concurrent events-the devastation of The Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian, and the arrival of the first oil production vessel in Guyanese territorial waters-and probes the contradictions between the extractive imperative of economic nationalism and the existential t…
Honoring Our Elders
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn
This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. Taking the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose as a point of departure, this essay posits the California wildfire…
Road Work
En Trinidad y Tobago, los caminos funcionan como un medio estatal para traducir los beneficios de petróleo y gas a fuentes de apoyo popular y electoral. Como resultado, las carreteras funcionan como sitios de confrontación entre funcionarios parlamentarios y ciudadanos descontentos sobre cuestiones de contratación pública, desarrollo y gobernanza. Basado en trabajo de campo prolongado con el Movimiento de Re-Ruta de la Autopista (HRM)-un grupo de…
Decolonization Matters
The Decolonizing Generation
In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of "Third World" peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a "crisis of reception," this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itsel…
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn
This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. Taking the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose as a point of departure, this essay posits the California wildfire…
The Decolonizing Generation
In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of "Third World" peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a "crisis of reception," this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itsel…
States of Crisis, Flags of Convenience
This essay serves as an introduction to the special section "States of Crisis." Principally a meditation on political and ecological crisis in the Caribbean, this introduction revisits two concurrent events-the devastation of The Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian, and the arrival of the first oil production vessel in Guyanese territorial waters-and probes the contradictions between the extractive imperative of economic nationalism and the existential t…
Road Work
En Trinidad y Tobago, los caminos funcionan como un medio estatal para traducir los beneficios de petróleo y gas a fuentes de apoyo popular y electoral. Como resultado, las carreteras funcionan como sitios de confrontación entre funcionarios parlamentarios y ciudadanos descontentos sobre cuestiones de contratación pública, desarrollo y gobernanza. Basado en trabajo de campo prolongado con el Movimiento de Re-Ruta de la Autopista (HRM)-un grupo de…
Facing the flames
In June 1939, Melville Herskovits arrived in Trinidad. Already committed to his eponymous thesis of African cultural survivals, he identified the rural municipality of Toco as a site to observe "African ways of life ... in greatest purity." The oil field strikes that gripped the island just two years earlier received only a passing mention in his monograph, Trinidad Village. This essay meditates on Herskovits's field notes to consider how a Boasi…
Honoring Our Elders
Decolonization Matters
The Decolonizing Generation
In the wake of anthropology's much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of "Third World" peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a "crisis of reception," this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itsel…
Road Work
En Trinidad y Tobago, los caminos funcionan como un medio estatal para traducir los beneficios de petróleo y gas a fuentes de apoyo popular y electoral. Como resultado, las carreteras funcionan como sitios de confrontación entre funcionarios parlamentarios y ciudadanos descontentos sobre cuestiones de contratación pública, desarrollo y gobernanza. Basado en trabajo de campo prolongado con el Movimiento de Re-Ruta de la Autopista (HRM)-un grupo de…
States of Crisis, Flags of Convenience
This essay serves as an introduction to the special section "States of Crisis." Principally a meditation on political and ecological crisis in the Caribbean, this introduction revisits two concurrent events-the devastation of The Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian, and the arrival of the first oil production vessel in Guyanese territorial waters-and probes the contradictions between the extractive imperative of economic nationalism and the existential t…
Honoring Our Elders
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn
This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. Taking the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose as a point of departure, this essay posits the California wildfire…
Keywords in Caribbean Studies
This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of the field of Caribbean studies
Facing the flames
In June 1939, Melville Herskovits arrived in Trinidad. Already committed to his eponymous thesis of African cultural survivals, he identified the rural municipality of Toco as a site to observe "African ways of life ... in greatest purity." The oil field strikes that gripped the island just two years earlier received only a passing mention in his monograph, Trinidad Village. This essay meditates on Herskovits's field notes to consider how a Boasi…
Extractivism's limits
In this multiauthored conversation on the limits of extractivism, Ryan Cecil Jobson, Macarena Gómez Barris, Cymene Howe, and Mareike Winchell collectively reflect on the erasures and displacements of extractivism, and how it works to produce affective and material outcomes. They take time to imagine the possible, or the aspirational, futures in a postextractive world or worlds, while recognizing that "extractivism" itself has become a way of mark…
Radiation and the Question of Power
In the late colonial British West Indies, movements for independence launched demands for the democratic control of land and natural resources. In petroleum-rich Trinidad, however, oil was not the only theater in which energy matters fueled anticolonial agitation. In 1959, public fears mounted over a secret missile tracking station built by the US military at its Chaguaramas base on Trinidad’s northwest peninsula. Subsequently, rumors of hazardou…
Address to Black Anthropologists (1978)
Black Anthropology and Its Archives
Banana Wars
What the Petro-state Does Do
This essay responds to the critical reflections on The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago (2024) offered by Chelsea Schields and J. Brent Crosson. Meditating on the petro-state as a political form not limited to petroleum-exporting nations, it proposes instead that we tend to the petro-state as an arrangement of power that structures Caribbean political life after the oil price shocks of 1973. Finally, this…
To the Readers of Transforming Anthropology
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