Material worlds: Natural resources, resource geography and the material economy

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Sustainable Capital? The Neoliberalization of Nature and Knowledge in the European “Knowledge-based Bio-economy” (2010, background): “Consequently, as Gavin Bridge argues more generally [8], these ―raw materials‖ are constructed as specifically sustainable resources through the assumption that living nature is abundant because it is inherently renewable (i.”
Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown (2015, background): “needed in order to consider how the socio-material differences between coal, LNG and other resources might be significant in theorizing these emerging spatial configurations in Tete and beyond (Bridge, 2009).”
The battery business: Lithium availability and the growth of the global electric car industry (2017, background): “As Bridge (2009) states: “a society’s incomplete geographical knowledge has meant low-quality resources have often been used before high quality ones were discovered or became available” (Bridge, 2009: 1230).”
EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder (2013, background): “As this illustrates, resources become such through a specific imaginary (Bridge, 2009: 1221).”