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SUMMARY:Andrew Barry - 'Chemical Geopolitics' - Andrew Barry - London Scho
 ol of Economics
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DESCRIPTION:In a lecture given in 1918\, the Professor of Chemistry at the
  University of Cambridge\, William Jackson Pope\, stressed the significanc
 e of what he termed ‘chemical geography’.\n\nAs an advisor to the impe
 rial wartime government\, Pope argued for the geopolitical importance of s
 pecific chemicals and minerals that were considered vital for the conduct 
 of war. However\, his proposal to establish a field of chemical geography 
 was never taken up.\n\nIn this talk\, I consider how the idea of a chemica
 l geography might be rethought critically\, in an era of both heightened g
 eopolitical competition over the control of specific chemical resources su
 ch as rare earths\, and growing international concern with what the UN Env
 ironment Programme has called the ‘chemical and waste crisis’.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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