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Hayes John P., PhD Candidate

John P. Hayes

PhD Candidate

Graduate Students
Department of Political Science

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

John P. Hayes is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. He specializes in Comparative Public Policy and International Relations. His dissertation focuses on Mexico's mining industry (1988-2018) and the dynamics of federal policy implementation, policy choice, and institutional reform. Empirically, the project traces the multi-stakeholder negotiations and contests for agenda-setting in mining policy across numerous regulatory agencies and public administrative entities that caused significant change in Mexico’s natural resource governance.

John holds a MA in Political Science from York University (2018) and a BA (Hons) in Latin American Studies from the University of British Columbia (2012), with a minor diploma in Mexican Social Movements from the Universidad Autónoma de México - Xochimilco, Mexico City (2010).

John is Research Coordinator of the Extractive Resource Governance Program, University of Calgary, School of Public Policy, and a research associate in the Development Studies Program at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México. 

Supervisor: Dr. Michelle Dion 

Commmitte Members: Dr. Netina Tan; Dr. Stephen McBride 

Areas of Interest: 

  • Natural Resource Governance
  • Extractive Industries 
  • Public Policy 
  • Political Ecology 
  • Rural Development

Awards:

Education

  • Ph.D Political Science (Comparative Public Policy), McMaster University (in progress) 
  • M.A. Political Science, York University (2018) 
  • B.A. (Hons) Latin American Studies, University of British Columbia (2012) 

Teaching

Teaching Assistant 

  • POLSCI 2H03 - Globalization & the State - Dr. Nowrin Tabassum (Winter 2021)
  • POLSCI 2D03 - Canadian Democracy - Dr. Peter Graefe (Fall 2020)
  • POLSCI 2D03 - Canadian Democracy - Dr. Heather Bastedo (Summer 2020)
  • POLSCI 2J03 - Global Political Economy - Dr. Robert O'Brien (Winter 2020) 
  • POLSCI 2D03 - Canadian Democracy - Dr. Heather Bastedo (Fall 2019)
  • POLSCI 2D03 - Canadian Democracy - Dr. Peter Graefe (Winter 2019)
  • POLSCI 2PF3 - Politics of Funny - Dr. Michelle Dion (Fall 2018)

Research

Research Contributions 

Hayes, John P. 2018. Neoliberalization, municipal governance, and mining resistance: case studies from Oaxaca, Mexico, Global Labour Research Centre Symposium Proceedings 2017, 78-90. Edited by Thomas, Mark P. and Jordan House. Toronto: Global Labour Research Centre, York University. URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341090568_Neoliberalization_Municipal_Governance_and_Mining_Resistance_Case_Studies_from_Oaxaca_Mexico

Hayes, John P. 2017. The Last Shall be First: Postcolonial Theories and Critical Security Studies, York University Criminology Review 2(1), 38-48.

Hayes, John P. 2017. Peace is on the ballot: Polarization and the Colombian Peace Process, University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 3(2), 1-8.

Book Reviews

Hayes, John P. 2021. Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador. Duke University Press: Durham and London. ISBN 9781478008484 (Paperback) $26.95 USD. [Review of the book: Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, by Thea Riofrancos, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020]. The Extractive Industries and Society 8(2), 874. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.01.009

Hayes, John P. 2018. Los Zetas INC: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico. [Review of the Book: Los Zetas INC: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017]. Conflict and Society 4(1), 290-291. https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2018.040121

Conference Presentations 

Hayes, John P. 2020. Economic Development in a Context of Violent Conflict: a critical examination of Mexico’s Mérida Initiative. Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Congress, University of Ottawa. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Hayes, John P. 2019. Examining the Role of Subnational Authoritarian Regimes in the Expansion of Commercial Mining in Southern Mexico. Canadian Political Science Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia.

Hayes, John P. 2019. The New Extractivism: Towards a Post-neoliberal Global Mineral Supply Chain or a New Dependency? Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy 8: Global Policy and the Discontented Conference, McMaster University.

Hayes, John P. 2019. Neoliberalism, Counter-reforms, and the Political Power of the Mining Concession in Rural Mexico, Global Labour Research Centre’s International Graduate Student Symposium, York University.

Hayes, John P. 2018. Commercial Mining, Rural Change, and the Precarity of Organized Labour in Oaxaca, Mexico, Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies annual conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina.

Robson, James P. and John P. Hayes. 2017. Neoliberalization, Rural Change, and Commons Collective: The Case of Mining in Mexico, International Association for the Studies of the Commons Biennial Conference, Utrecht University.