@article{THESIS,
      recid = {12024},
      author = {Ferreira, Julia},
      title = {DeLorean or De-Lithium? Back to the Future: The Projective  Securitization of Critical Minerals for Clean Energy  Technologies},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2024-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {In this paper, I explore the questions: Has the  securitization of critical minerals succeeded? If yes, what  is the character of this securitization? Specifically, I  focus on minerals such as lithium and cobalt, which I argue  have been securitized in terms of both China’s dominance  over the supply chain and their use in clean energy  technologies to address climate change. I use this case  study of critical mineral extraction to argue for a new  temporal element to securitization. While most of the  securitization literature posits that governments  securitize before an extraordinary measure has been  implemented in order to justify that measure to their  domestic publics, I argue that in the process of projective  securitization, securitization can occur after an  extraordinary measure has already existed for some time. I  demonstrate that critical mineral exploitation in the  Global South—which I consider an ‘extraordinary  measure'—has occurred since at least the 1970s, during  which these minerals were not securitized to nearly the  same extent as they are today. Through process tracing and  a discourse analysis of U.S. government and advocacy group  outputs on critical minerals, I demonstrate that as crisis  points emerged in which advocacy groups started to call  public attention to this exploitation, the U.S. government  ramped up its securitizing attempts. I then demonstrate how  advocacy groups subsequently changed the character of their  critical mineral discourse, accepting the U.S. government’s  securitizing language. These findings demonstrate that  further research should be done on the different temporal  elements of securitization.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12024},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12024},
}