Julie Michelle Klinger PhD Geography, is an assistant professor of international relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
Julie specializes in the political economy and political ecology of strategic mineral resources in China, Brazil, and Outer Space. Her ethnographic and policy research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung, and she has published in The Extractive Industries and Society, the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Nueva Sociedad. Dr. Klinger has a book manuscript on the global geography of the rare earth mining and prospecting currently under review with Cornell University Press.
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