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Rare Earth Frontiers : From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
2018
Overview
Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. Julie Michelle Klinger draws attention to the fact that the rare earths we rely on most are as common as copper or lead, and this means the implications of their extraction are global. Klinger excavates the rich historical origins and ongoing ramifications of the quest to mine rare earths in ever more impossible places. Klinger writes about the devastating damage to lives and the environment caused by the exploitation of rare earths. She demonstrates in human terms how scarcity myths have been conscripted into diverse geopolitical campaigns that use rare earth mining as a pretext to capture spaces that have historically fallen beyond the grasp of centralized power. These include legally and logistically forbidding locations in the Amazon, Greenland, and Afghanistan, and on the Moon. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and interview data gathered in local languages and offering possible solutions to the problems it documents, this book examines the production of the rare earth frontier as a place, a concept, and a zone of contestation, sacrifice, and transformation.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Baotou
/ Brazil
/ China
/ Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
/ Geology
/ Moon
/ Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCM Economic geography
/ Rare earth metals-Brazil-Amazonas
/ Rare earth metals-China-Inner Mongolia
/ Rare earth metals-Political aspects
/ Rare earth metals-Social aspects
/ Science
ISBN
9781501714610, 1501714619, 9781501714603, 1501714600, 9781501714580, 1501714589
