Maiah Jaskoski is Associate Professor of Political Science 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). She 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 completed book manuscript, New Extraction in Latin America: Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict (under review with Oxford University Press), 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 large-scale development; and local “popular consultations,” or municipal referenda.
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 (July 2020; published online January 2, 2020).
Jaskoski’s current research examines social conflict over proposed mining and hydrocarbon extraction. The completed book manuscript, New Extraction in Latin America: Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict (under review with Oxford University Press), 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 large-scale development; and local “popular consultations,” or municipal referenda.
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 (July 2020; published online January 2, 2020).
