For well over a decade, Maiah Jaskoski has been a keen observer of conflicts surrounding extractive industries in the Andean countries. This book combines her sharp eye for detail with a comparative analysis of thirty of the region's most iconic conflicts over resource extraction. She uses this empirical depth to engage with scholarship on participatory institutions and conflict dynamics and delivers novel and important insights for literatures on institutional change, contentious politics, and extractive industry governance. A substantial contribution.
Maiah Jaskoski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in environmental and indigenous politics, military roles, security privatization, and borders, in Latin America. She is the author of Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes and numerous academic journal articles. She also co-authored and co-edited American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere.