Maiah Jaskoski is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in environmental and indigenous politics, security privatization, military roles, and borders, in Latin America. She is author of Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) and numerous academic journal articles; and coauthor and co-editor of American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). Jaskoski holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College.
Jaskoski’s current research examines social conflict over proposed mining and hydrocarbon extraction. The book manuscript analyzes how mobilized indigenous and non-indigenous communities in extractive zones have used local participatory institutions in their efforts to challenge new mining and hydrocarbon development. It focuses on three institutions in particular: public hearings built into environmental impact assessment; state-led “prior consultation” with native communities affected by extraction; and local “popular consultations,” or municipal referenda on extraction.
The study is the first systematic analysis of how local participatory institutions either ameliorate or exacerbate extractive conflict. While in some cases communities act within the provided participatory spaces, in others they organize “around” or “in reaction” to those institutions, using the institutional procedures as focal points for escalating conflict. The book documents and explains variation through in-depth analysis of thirty major hydrocarbon and mining conflicts in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru, based on Jaskoski’s field research in the three countries in 2012 and 2016–18. Portions of the research are published in World Development and forthcoming in Comparative Politics.
Jaskoski’s current research examines social conflict over proposed mining and hydrocarbon extraction. The book manuscript analyzes how mobilized indigenous and non-indigenous communities in extractive zones have used local participatory institutions in their efforts to challenge new mining and hydrocarbon development. It focuses on three institutions in particular: public hearings built into environmental impact assessment; state-led “prior consultation” with native communities affected by extraction; and local “popular consultations,” or municipal referenda on extraction.
The study is the first systematic analysis of how local participatory institutions either ameliorate or exacerbate extractive conflict. While in some cases communities act within the provided participatory spaces, in others they organize “around” or “in reaction” to those institutions, using the institutional procedures as focal points for escalating conflict. The book documents and explains variation through in-depth analysis of thirty major hydrocarbon and mining conflicts in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru, based on Jaskoski’s field research in the three countries in 2012 and 2016–18. Portions of the research are published in World Development and forthcoming in Comparative Politics.
