Klinger Speaks at MIT E4Dev Speaker Series
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of the MIT Energy for Human Development Spring 2019 Speaker Series on May 20, 2019.
Klinger gave a talk entitled “Technology, Mining, Violence, and Alternatives: Global Lessons from the Amazon for a Green New Deal.” The speaker series focuses on topics related to energy, water, air pollution, climate change as they relate to the developing world, especially China, India, Latin America and Africa.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China, Brazil, and the United States, Klinger provided a background of the global technology metals situation, examining case studies from Latin America, and presenting proposals to clean up the lifecycles of our technologies.
Julie Michelle Klinger, PhD, specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. Her recent book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Cornell University Press in Fall 2017) received the 2017 Meridian Award from the American Association of Geographers for its “unusually important contribution to advancing the art and science of geography.”