Maiah Jaskoski, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University, specializes in environmental and indigenous politics, military roles, and borders, in Latin America. She is author of Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Extraction: Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict in Latin America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022). Her work is published or forthcoming in Armed Forces and Society, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Revista de Ciencia Política, Studies in Comparative International Development, Terrorism and Political Violence, and World Development. She coauthored and co-edited 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.
In The Politics of Extraction (Oxford University Press), Jaskoski 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. She focuses on three institutions: 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 channel 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 Comparative Politics and World Development and forthcoming in Revista de Ciencia Política.
In The Politics of Extraction (Oxford University Press), Jaskoski 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. She focuses on three institutions: 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 channel 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 Comparative Politics and World Development and forthcoming in Revista de Ciencia Política.
