Rate My Professor Pascale Hatcher

Pascale Hatcher is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Canterbury, where she has served since February 2017. She earned her PhD from the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in 2009, with a thesis on the politics of entrapment in mining contexts. Her academic career centers on the political economy of extractive industries, international development, and governance issues in Asia and the Pacific. Hatcher coordinates the PhD program and POLS688, and teaches courses such as Politics of International Aid and Development (POLS209), alongside contributions to undergraduate and postgraduate supervision in political science.

Hatcher's research explores mining governance, neoliberal reforms, resource nationalism, civil society mobilization, territorial dispossession, and emerging challenges like deep-sea mining geopolitics. Key publications include her monograph Regimes of Risk: The World Bank and the Transformation of Mining in Asia (Springer, 2015); Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (Routledge, 2019); Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Political Economy of Large-Scale Mining in Asia (Routledge, 2023); and peer-reviewed articles such as 'Neoliberal reform, contestation and relations of power in mining: Observations from Guinea and Mongolia' (Extractive Industries and Society, 2019), 'Taming risks in Asia: the World Bank Group and new mining regimes' (Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2012), 'Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts' (World Development, 2021), and recent works on deep-sea mining campaigns in the Pacific (Marine Policy, 2026) and the Grasberg Mine in West Papua (Society & Natural Resources, 2025). She leads the Marsden Fund-supported project 'Into the Deep: Analysing the Actors and Controversies Driving the Adoption of the World’s First Deep Sea Mining Governance' (2022), in collaboration with the University of the South Pacific. Hatcher contributes to the Southeast Asia Research Initiative, Global Research and Innovation Hub on the Pacific (GRIPac), and Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. In 2021, she received the University of Canterbury Arts Award for Teaching Excellence. Her scholarship, cited over 400 times, influences debates on extractive conflicts, norm domestication, and Pacific perspectives in global governance.