My research examines how struggles over the burgeoning oil and gas industry in Guyana are transforming the terrain of human and environmental interests that count, the temporal horizons that matter, and the possibilities for redistributive economic and social development. This work is supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Global Democracy Commons, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Publications
Feign, Anna. “Late Petro-State Politics: The Struggle for Temporal Hegemony in Guyana.” Under Review.
Feign, Anna. 2026. Review of The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago, by Ryan Jobson. SOULS. Available here.
In August 2026, I presented my paper, “Late Petro-State Politics: The Struggle for Temporal Hegemony in Guyana,” at the Resisting Authoritarianism: Global Solidarity & Democratic Futures conference at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Thanks to Zachary Levenson for organizing, and to the discussant, Simeon Newman, for the questions he posed to me and my fellow panelists, Cihan Tuğal, Kevan Harris, Mushahid Hussain, and Tomasz Zarycki.
Dr. Marion Fourcade introduces the Social Science Matrix Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Perspectives panel. I presented my paper, “Late Petro-State Politics: The Struggle for Temporal Hegemony in Guyana.” Thanks to Dr. Samera Esmeir for her thought-provoking questions and Andrea Lara-Garcia for her brilliant interventions.
In April 2025, I presented at the Imagining Caribbean Futures Symposium 2025, hosted by the Caribbean Coalition at UC Berkeley.
In my earlier work, I focused on the intersection of the climate crisis and migration in Tuvalu, The Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Ethiopia, and Haiti in this report:
Contributing Researcher and Writer, Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied. December 2019. Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.