{"product_id":"rare-earth-frontiers-from-terrestrial-subsoils-to-lunar-landscapes-9781501714597","title":"Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Rare Earth Frontiers is a timely text. As Klinger notes  rare earths are neither rare nor technically earths  but they are still widely believed to be both. Although her approach focuses on the human  or cultural  geography of rare earths mining  she does not ignore the geological occurrence of these mineral types  both on Earth and on the moon.... This volume is excellently organized  insightfully written  and extensively sourced.\"ChoiceDrawing 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. Rare Earth Frontiersis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960493072437,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501714597","price":51.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501714597.jpg?v=1788288938","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rare-earth-frontiers-from-terrestrial-subsoils-to-lunar-landscapes-9781501714597","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}