Maiah Jaskoski (Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in environmental politics, military roles, and borders, in Latin America. She is author of Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), The Politics of Extraction: Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict in Latin America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021), and numerous academic journal articles. She coauthored and co-edited American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).
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 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 Comparative Politics and World Development.
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 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 Comparative Politics and World Development.
