Articles:
Akchurin, Maria and Juanita Vivas Bastidas. 2025. “Beyond Sacrifice Zones: Rethinking Pollution Through a Cumulative Impact Lens.” Contexts 24(2): 28-34.
Akchurin, Maria. 2025. "Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile's Atacama Desert." Current History 124 (859): 61–67.
Akchurin, Maria and Gabriel Chouhy. 2024. "Designing Better Access to Education? Unified Enrollment, School Choice, and the Limits of Algorithmic Fairness in New Orleans School Admissions." Qualitative Sociology 47: 281-323.
Vivas Bastidas, Juanita, Maria Akchurin, Dana Garbarski, and David Doherty. 2024. “How Local Perceptions Contribute to Urban Environmental Activism: Evidence from the Chicago Metropolitan Area.” The Sociological Quarterly 65(1): 38-60.
Akchurin, Maria. 2023. "Environmental Justice at the Environmental Courts? Mining, Socioenvironmental Conflicts, and Environmental Litigation in Northern Chile.” Extractive Industries and Society. Part of Special Issue: Politics of Policy Implementation, edited by Zaraí Toledo Orozco and Eduardo Silva
Akchurin, Maria. 2023. "Contested Infrastructures: Water, Privatization, and Place-Based Protest in Greater Buenos Aires." City & Community 22(3):171-194.
Akchurin, Maria. 2020. "Mining and Defensive Mobilization: Explaining Opposition to Extractive Industries in Chile." Sociology of Development 6(1): 1-29.
Silva, Eduardo, Maria Akchurin, and Anthony Bebbington. 2018. "Policy Effects of Resistance Against Mega-Projects in Latin America." European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 106: 23-46.
Akchurin, Maria. 2015. “Constructing the Rights of Nature: Constitutional Reform, Mobilization, and Environmental Protection in Ecuador.” Law and Social Inquiry 40(4): 937-968.
Akchurin, Maria and Cheol-Sung Lee. 2013. “Pathways to Empowerment: Repertoires of Women’s Activism and Gender Earnings Equality.” American Sociological Review 78(4): 679-701.
Book reviews:
Akchurin, Maria. 2023. Book review of Peter Little's (2021), Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana. Contemporary Sociology 52(3):255-257.
Akchurin, Maria. 2018. Book review of Erica Simmons’s (2016) Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America. American Journal of Sociology 123(4):1228-1230.
Akchurin, Maria. 2017. Book review of Gonzalo Delamaza’s (2015) Enhancing Democracy Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 58(1): 91-96.