{"id":1874,"date":"2017-04-18T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2017-04-18T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:40:11","slug":"geographies-of-tantalum-production-and-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2017\/04\/18\/geographies-of-tantalum-production-and-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographies of Tantalum Production and Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their\u00a0central importance to many of the\u00a0&#8220;high tech&#8221; products that we have come to rely on in our daily lives,\u00a0the &#8220;Three T&#8217;s&#8221; (tin, tungsten, tantalum) commonly used in personal electronics are\u00a0commonly\u00a0extracted in an opaque and often violent supply chain. While it is hard to imagine that items as seemingly benign as our cell phones and computers can contribute to\u00a0enslavement and displacement\u00a0thousands of miles away, even seemingly trivial components of the products we purchase can have enormous influence in\u00a0perpetuating structural violence and exploitative labor hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/afd2b2a65f6b0b6e532a2b9d0d2f66a8\/tantalum-supply-and-consumption\/index.html\">https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/afd2b2a65f6b0b6e532a2b9d0d2f66a8\/tantalum-supply-and-consumption\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their\u00a0central importance to many of the\u00a0&#8220;high tech&#8221; products that we have come to rely on in our daily lives,\u00a0the &#8220;Three T&#8217;s&#8221; (tin, tungsten, tantalum) commonly used in personal electronics are\u00a0commonly\u00a0extracted in an opaque and often violent supply chain. While it is hard to imagine that items as seemingly benign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32861,31563,61425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption-storymap","category-section-2","category-spring-2017","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}