000012024 001__ 12024 000012024 005__ 20251007025633.0 000012024 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.12024 000012024 037__ $$aTHESIS 000012024 037__ $$bThesis 000012024 041__ $$aeng 000012024 245__ $$aDeLorean or De-Lithium? Back to the Future: The Projective Securitization of Critical Minerals for Clean Energy Technologies 000012024 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000012024 269__ $$a2024-06 000012024 336__ $$aThesis 000012024 502__ $$bM.A. 000012024 520__ $$aIn this paper, I explore the questions: Has the securitization of critical minerals succeeded? If yes, what is the character of this securitization? Specifically, I focus on minerals such as lithium and cobalt, which I argue have been securitized in terms of both China’s dominance over the supply chain and their use in clean energy technologies to address climate change. I use this case study of critical mineral extraction to argue for a new temporal element to securitization. While most of the securitization literature posits that governments securitize before an extraordinary measure has been implemented in order to justify that measure to their domestic publics, I argue that in the process of projective securitization, securitization can occur after an extraordinary measure has already existed for some time. I demonstrate that critical mineral exploitation in the Global South—which I consider an ‘extraordinary measure'—has occurred since at least the 1970s, during which these minerals were not securitized to nearly the same extent as they are today. Through process tracing and a discourse analysis of U.S. government and advocacy group outputs on critical minerals, I demonstrate that as crisis points emerged in which advocacy groups started to call public attention to this exploitation, the U.S. government ramped up its securitizing attempts. I then demonstrate how advocacy groups subsequently changed the character of their critical mineral discourse, accepting the U.S. government’s securitizing language. These findings demonstrate that further research should be done on the different temporal elements of securitization. 000012024 540__ $$a© 2024 Julia Ferreira 000012024 542__ $$fCC BY-NC-SA 000012024 592__ $$aFile titled "Julia Ferreira MA Thesis" deleted per author's request with EG Enbar's approval. AH 5/26/2024 000012024 6531_ $$aSecuritization 000012024 6531_ $$aCritical Minerals 000012024 6531_ $$aExtraordinary measure 000012024 6531_ $$aTemporal 000012024 6531_ $$aExploitation 000012024 6531_ $$aGlobal South 000012024 6531_ $$aTransnational advocacy groups 000012024 6531_ $$aLithium 000012024 6531_ $$aCobalt 000012024 6531_ $$aChina 000012024 6531_ $$aClean energy technologies 000012024 6531_ $$aClimate change 000012024 6531_ $$aMining exploitation 000012024 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000012024 691__ $$aCommittee on International Relations (CIR) 000012024 7001_ $$aFerreira, Julia$$uUniversity of Chicago 000012024 72012 $$aLinnea Turco 000012024 72014 $$aAdam Parker 000012024 8564_ $$91cabb804-771b-4164-817d-af7eab03db59$$ePublic$$s1177682$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12024/files/Ferreira%20MA%20Thesis_%20The%20Projective%20Securitization%20of%20Critical%20Minerals.pdf 000012024 908__ $$aI agree 000012024 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:12024$$pTheses$$pGLOBAL_SET 000012024 983__ $$aThesis