{"id":38068,"date":"2019-05-20T16:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=38068"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:20:19","slug":"klinger-speaks-as-part-of-mit-e4dev-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/05\/20\/klinger-speaks-as-part-of-mit-e4dev-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Klinger Speaks at MIT E4Dev Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/Klinger1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/Klinger1-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/Klinger1-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/Klinger1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/Klinger1-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/julie-klinger\/\">Julie Klinger,<\/a><span>\u00a0Assistant Professor of International Relations at the\u00a0<\/span><span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0spoke as part of the\u00a0MIT Energy for Human Development Spring 2019 Speaker Series on May 20, 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Klinger gave a talk entitled &#8220;<span>Technology, Mining, Violence, and Alternatives:\u00a0Global Lessons from the Amazon for a Green New Deal.&#8221; The speaker series focuses on\u00a0topics related to energy, water, air pollution, climate change as they relate to the developing world, especially China, India, Latin America and Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/julie-klinger\/\">Julie Michelle Klinger<\/a><span>, PhD, specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. Her recent book<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>(Cornell University Press in Fall 2017) received the 2017 Meridian Award from the American Association of Geographers for its \u201cunusually important contribution to advancing the art and science of geography.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Julie Klinger gave a talk entitled &#8220;Technology, Mining, Violence, and Alternatives:\u00a0Global Lessons from the Amazon for a Green New Deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414,8432],"tags":[11087,11269,8906,9102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38084,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38068\/revisions\/38084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}