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!
Ryan Cecil Jobson
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
assistant prof @uchicago. black study. caribbean anthro. yaadie. anarcho-zesser. author of the petro-state masquerade ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 http://bit.ly/3z2Geyk. yankees. nets. jets. chelsea fc.
New issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social out now!
@transformanthro.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur 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.
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.
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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Small Axe Project@smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 4mo agoSX 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 !
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...
Small Axe Project@smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 5mo agoSX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉 All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger
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
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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Anthony Ballas@tonyjballas.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew from Portolan: "A Caribbean Crucifixion: The Odyssey of Rishi & Charpo" by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social Link below
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.
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.
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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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
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...
Guardians Of The Sky@guardiansofthesky.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe U.S AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR radar system is now operational at ANR Robinson International Airport in Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. Credits: Pearce Robinson (H/T #usa #usanews #news #us #america #unitedstates
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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@transformanthro.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur 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.
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.
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
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
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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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...
Ryan Cecil Jobson@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 11mo agoAt 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...
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...
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...
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...
Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽
The University of Chicago Press@uchicagopress.bsky.social · last yr.One week only! Take 75% off all ebooks from the University of Chicago Press and select distributed publishers until August 17th with code EBOOK75! Browse the available books here: buff.ly/kjdsDXV
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.
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.”
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...
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! 🇹🇹
Ryan Cecil Jobson@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · last yr.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...
Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social medium.com/clash-voices...
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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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...
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. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
