LEADER 03550oam 22006374a 450 001 9910255444603321 005 20240506040001.0 010 $a1-5017-1459-7 010 $a1-5017-1461-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501714610 035 $a(CKB)4100000001796131 035 $a(DLC) 2017014409 035 $a(OCoLC)979994470 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65599 035 $a(DE-B1597)521605 035 $a(OCoLC)1028759642 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501714610 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4987897 035 $a(ScCtBLL)f3227768-1d5f-4ecb-afb5-049a04a7e156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4987897 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001796131 100 $a20170315d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRare Earth Frontiers $eFrom Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes /$fJulie Michelle Klinger 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-5017-1460-0 311 $a1-5017-1458-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : welcome to the rare earth frontier -- What are rare earth elements? -- Placing China in the world history of discovery, production, and use -- Welcome to the hometown of rare earths : 1980-2010 -- Rude awakenings -- From the heartland to the head of the dog -- Extraglobal extraction. 330 $aRare 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. 606 $aLunar mining 606 $aRare earth metals$zBrazil$zAmazonas 606 $aRare earth metals$zChina$zInner Mongolia 606 $aRare earth metals$xPolitical aspects 606 $aRare earth metals$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLunar mining. 615 0$aRare earth metals 615 0$aRare earth metals 615 0$aRare earth metals$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aRare earth metals$xSocial aspects. 676 $a553.4/94 700 $aKlinger$b Julie Michelle$f1983-$0916877 712 02$aKnowledge Unlatched 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255444603321 996 $aRare earth frontiers$92055495 997 $aUNINA