Julie Michelle Klinger

TL;DR: This paper presented a historical geography of rare earth elements from their discovery to the atomic age with a focus on the period between 1880 and 1960 in order to lend greater depth to the growing body of scholarship on the relationship between rare earth element and global political change.

TL;DR: Klare et al. as mentioned in this paper looked historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning, and found that rare earths are the elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the New Geographies of Development: Grounding China's Global Integration (NGOD) issue, the authors contribute to the ongoing reconceptualization of research approaches to China's global integration.

TL;DR: The relationship between rare earth elements and society, broadly defined, remains troubled in practice, poorly-conceived in policy, and under-examined in the social science literature as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The cultural, legal, budgetary, infrastructural, and logistical processes through which the contemporary space race unfolds have measurable environmental footprints on Earth and in outer space as discussed by the authors...