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Rare Earth Frontiers - From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Hardcover)
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Rare Earth Frontiers - From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Hardcover)
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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.
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