Klinger Publishes Bilingual Journal Article
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has published an article in both English and Spanish on strategic minerals in Brazil.
“Rescaling China-Brazil Investment Relations in the Strategic Minerals Sector” has been published in the Journal of Chinese Political Science. A Spanish-language version, “Minerales Estratégicos: Cambios de Escala de las Relations entire China y Brasil,” will appear in the September-October issue of Nueva Sociedad.
“As part of my commitment to foster international research collaboration, I seek to make my work available in multiple languages,” Klinger said. “In this case, I was pleased to collaborate with Dr. Catherine Levy of the Freie Universität Berlin and Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who coordinated the transmission of research articles focused on key actors in China-Latin America Relations to these separate venues. My articles are published as part of an international collection of original research pieces authored by scholars from the Americas, Europe, Australia and East Asia.”
From the abstract for the article in the Journal of Chinese Political Science:
China’s overseas activities during the first decade of the 21st century were characterized by state-directed investments, while the Brazilian government was often portrayed as lacking a strategic policy toward the emerging Asian power. Times have changed. In recent years China’s activities in Brazil’s mineral sector have become more fragmented, while Brazilian subnational entities have assumed greater prominence in directing transnational investment flows. Based on research in both countries between 2011 and 2014, this article presents three developments that help explain the changing scales of China-Brazil mining relations.
You can read the entire article here in English. A link to the Spanish version may be found here.
Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. She is currently completing a book project on the global geography of rare earth prospecting and mining, with a special emphasis on the development and geopolitics of resource frontiers in Brazil, China, and Outer Space. Learn more about her here.