Raphael Deberdt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 319182 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Raphael Deberdt |
| NOMBRES | Raphael |
| APELLIDO | Deberdt |
| FIRMA | DEBERDT R |
| AFILIACIONES | Colorado School of Mines |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4234-7953 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Startup extractivism
Small, unevenly financialized companies are now shaping the development of new cobalt and nickel processing plants in the United States (U.S.). as the country seeks to secure its critical mineral supplies. Building on political ecology theories, this article develops the concept of startup extractivism, defined by three core characteristics: (1) structure: young companies with small teams, (2) economic model: growth based on venture capital witho…
Investigating extraction
Investigative journalism can improve social and environmental outcomes for extractive projects by exposing governance failures and information asymmetries. This paper offers a replicable methodological template for extractives coverage by reverse-engineering thirteen published investigations into oil and mining projects in Canada, Brazil, Guyana, and Ecuador. Many journalists already combine ground-truth interviews with primary records. Our contr…
Reuse of mining wastes or recycling? Socioecological perspectives of manganese reprocessing in the Czech Republic
Midstream geopolitics
The emerging geopolitics of critical minerals hinges not only on their extraction but also on their transformation. Smelters, refiners, magnet factories, and other processing facilities are new sites of geopolitical competition and dependencies, linking countries that increasingly see one another as strategic rivals. This article introduces the concept of midstream geopolitics to move beyond notions of resource geopolitics often focused on extrac…
Deep seabed mining as a response to abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? (Un)intended consequences of a new extractive frontier on a land-based producer
Debates surrounding deep seabed mining (DSM) often invoke claims that the industry could alleviate a range of social, ecological, economic, and political harms associated with the extraction of critical minerals on land. These arguments often centre on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which currently supplies 73% of global cobalt. This article critically examines the assumptions underpinning such claims. Examining the International Sea…
On the coloniality of green finance
Vast quantities of minerals are being extracted for the so-called “green transition”. Framed as climate solutions and motivated by geoeconomic competition, green extractive projects mobilize billions of dollars, particularly from Western and Chinese interests. Yet, such capital-intensive ventures disproportionately land in the Global South or Indigenous and agrarian territories of the Global North, reproducing (post)colonial dynamics of accumulat…
Minerals at the margins and the new geopolitics of critical minerals
The new resource geopolitics is not solely a race against China; it is a test of foresight, adaptability, and the ability to invest in futures not yet fully visible across the full spectrum of ‘critical’ resources. While Western powers rush to counter China's dominance in mainstream critical minerals —such as rare earths, lithium, and cobalt—policy, research, and public attention tend to overlook minerals at the margins : materials recognized as …
Minerals-for-peace or naked extractivism? Trump and resource imperialism in Ukraine
In this article, we identify new U.S. resource geopolitics under President Trump. Taking the example of the Ukraine ‘Minerals Deal’, we point at a form of ‘naked extractivism’ that does not seek to legitimize itself through forms of public justification other than transactional power relations. While sharing many of the other political, social, and environmental dimensions of extractivism, it justifies itself through blunt narratives of rightful …
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers
The scramble for critical minerals needed for the low-carbon transition stretches from Congolese cobalt mines to plans for extracting ores from asteroids and the deep seabed. Companies are also reopening old mines to extract the increasingly valuable and strategically important minerals. These intensifying activities threaten to sacrifice vulnerable ecosystems and populations in the name of saving the planet
Onshoring low-carbon supply chains
Framing Chinese dominance in low-carbon supply chains as a strategic threat, Western governments have responded by deploying a range of subsidies to secure end-to-end supply chains, from critical minerals to batteries and EV production. This article addresses Canadian subsidies' approach to onshoring green manufacturing, with a focus on EV supply chains in Ontario. Based on 20 interviews with government officials and industry leaders and a litera…
Artificial intelligence and ESG in resources-intensive industries
The implementation of artificial intelligence systems to ensure supply chain sustainability is increasing in numerous industries. • AI is mobilized to address specific sustainability issues in the fisheries, mining, plastics, and forestry industries. • AI has the potential to address identified issues but generally risks increasing consumption patterns of these industries, thus leading to unsustainable growth. • On one hand, AI has the ability to…
Unleashing American Energy? Uncertainties in energy transition developments under a new Trump administration
The United States (U.S.) needs critical minerals if it wants to compete with China in low-carbon and military technologies. The country is, however, caught in a dual dynamic. It needs increased critical minerals supplies but also engages in aggressive policies aimed at dismantling federal support for low-carbon products as well as establishing foreign trade barriers. This article is informed by political ecology and political economy and addresse…
Critical minerals lists for low-carbon transitions
Critical minerals lists have flourished in the past decade, in particular linked to the importance of critical minerals for low-carbon transitions. We identified 27 critical minerals or materials lists across 15 countries and the European Union (EU). These lists are designed to attract public and private attention and investments to secure both domestic and foreign supplies. This review article fills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing …
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism
From resource security to resource securitisation
Standardizing “green” extractivism
Mining green minerals with the Taliban
Will Congo move up the battery supply chain? Strategic capitalism, friendshoring, and localized manufacturing in the time of the green transition
Pericentricity on the Congolese copperbelt
Could Justice40 reproduce injustices in the critical mineral sector
The United States is reprioritizing domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, with billions of dollars of investments. Because of their uses in low-carbon technologies, the mining and processing of these resources falls under the scope of the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden administration’s flagship environmental justice policy. Justice40 prioritizes green investments to benefit communities deemed disadvantaged, including all recog…
Green Transition's Necropolitics
This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” o…
Responsible extractivism and other tales. LinkedIn, feel good, and the politics of responsible mining on social media
Green transition mineral supply risks
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance
This article examines the role of industry in implementing and interpreting the international legal norm of human rights due diligence. Our study focuses on a multi-industry association called the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), which has assumed a leading role in implementing conflict minerals legislation and interpreting the norm of human rights due diligence in mineral supply chains. Drawing on interviews with RMI staff, corporate repre…
Outer Space Mining
Outer space holds a special place in the geographical imagination of techno-utopianism. At a time of climate crisis, the mining of celestial bodies, including asteroids, is cast as a possible “tech-driven” response to the need for “green transition” mineral resources in a context of rising geopolitical tensions and concerns over terrestrial extraction. Although still a long way from commercial-scale implementation, outer space mining no longer ap…
The Green Transition in Context—Cobalt Responsible Sourcing for Battery Manufacturing
Responsible cobalt in the context of the green transition is a major issue on the global sustainability agenda. Spurred by concerns around child labor in artisanal mine sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), corporate actors adopted a myriad of strategies to tackle reputational risks and establish responsible sourcing programs. Now encompassing forced labor, corruption, and environmental degradation mining-specific, as well as commu…
Green Transition's Necropolitics
This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” o…
Green transition mineral supply risks
Critical minerals lists for low-carbon transitions
Critical minerals lists have flourished in the past decade, in particular linked to the importance of critical minerals for low-carbon transitions. We identified 27 critical minerals or materials lists across 15 countries and the European Union (EU). These lists are designed to attract public and private attention and investments to secure both domestic and foreign supplies. This review article fills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing …
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism
Pericentricity on the Congolese copperbelt
Outer Space Mining
Outer space holds a special place in the geographical imagination of techno-utopianism. At a time of climate crisis, the mining of celestial bodies, including asteroids, is cast as a possible “tech-driven” response to the need for “green transition” mineral resources in a context of rising geopolitical tensions and concerns over terrestrial extraction. Although still a long way from commercial-scale implementation, outer space mining no longer ap…
Unleashing American Energy? Uncertainties in energy transition developments under a new Trump administration
The United States (U.S.) needs critical minerals if it wants to compete with China in low-carbon and military technologies. The country is, however, caught in a dual dynamic. It needs increased critical minerals supplies but also engages in aggressive policies aimed at dismantling federal support for low-carbon products as well as establishing foreign trade barriers. This article is informed by political ecology and political economy and addresse…
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance
This article examines the role of industry in implementing and interpreting the international legal norm of human rights due diligence. Our study focuses on a multi-industry association called the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), which has assumed a leading role in implementing conflict minerals legislation and interpreting the norm of human rights due diligence in mineral supply chains. Drawing on interviews with RMI staff, corporate repre…
Will Congo move up the battery supply chain? Strategic capitalism, friendshoring, and localized manufacturing in the time of the green transition
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s response to artisanal cobalt mining
Could Justice40 reproduce injustices in the critical mineral sector
The United States is reprioritizing domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, with billions of dollars of investments. Because of their uses in low-carbon technologies, the mining and processing of these resources falls under the scope of the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden administration’s flagship environmental justice policy. Justice40 prioritizes green investments to benefit communities deemed disadvantaged, including all recog…
Mining green minerals with the Taliban
Responsible extractivism and other tales. LinkedIn, feel good, and the politics of responsible mining on social media
Conflict minerals and battery materials supply chains
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s response to artisanal cobalt mining
The Licit Life of Capitalism
I n the last pages of her brilliant account of oil extraction in Equatorial Guinea, Hannah Appel reminds us that "many of capitalism's most egregious excesses are lawful" (280).This quote defines the core premise of The Licit Life of Capitalism, the result of 14 months of fieldwork between 2007 and 2008.In the purest tradition of contemporary economic anthropology, Appel investigates the excesses of capitalism, exploring the introduction of a neo…
The Green Transition in Context—Cobalt Responsible Sourcing for Battery Manufacturing
Responsible cobalt in the context of the green transition is a major issue on the global sustainability agenda. Spurred by concerns around child labor in artisanal mine sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), corporate actors adopted a myriad of strategies to tackle reputational risks and establish responsible sourcing programs. Now encompassing forced labor, corruption, and environmental degradation mining-specific, as well as commu…
Green transition mineral supply risks
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance
This article examines the role of industry in implementing and interpreting the international legal norm of human rights due diligence. Our study focuses on a multi-industry association called the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), which has assumed a leading role in implementing conflict minerals legislation and interpreting the norm of human rights due diligence in mineral supply chains. Drawing on interviews with RMI staff, corporate repre…
Outer Space Mining
Outer space holds a special place in the geographical imagination of techno-utopianism. At a time of climate crisis, the mining of celestial bodies, including asteroids, is cast as a possible “tech-driven” response to the need for “green transition” mineral resources in a context of rising geopolitical tensions and concerns over terrestrial extraction. Although still a long way from commercial-scale implementation, outer space mining no longer ap…
Standardizing “green” extractivism
Mining green minerals with the Taliban
Will Congo move up the battery supply chain? Strategic capitalism, friendshoring, and localized manufacturing in the time of the green transition
Pericentricity on the Congolese copperbelt
Could Justice40 reproduce injustices in the critical mineral sector
The United States is reprioritizing domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, with billions of dollars of investments. Because of their uses in low-carbon technologies, the mining and processing of these resources falls under the scope of the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden administration’s flagship environmental justice policy. Justice40 prioritizes green investments to benefit communities deemed disadvantaged, including all recog…
Green Transition's Necropolitics
This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” o…
Responsible extractivism and other tales. LinkedIn, feel good, and the politics of responsible mining on social media
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers
The scramble for critical minerals needed for the low-carbon transition stretches from Congolese cobalt mines to plans for extracting ores from asteroids and the deep seabed. Companies are also reopening old mines to extract the increasingly valuable and strategically important minerals. These intensifying activities threaten to sacrifice vulnerable ecosystems and populations in the name of saving the planet
Onshoring low-carbon supply chains
Framing Chinese dominance in low-carbon supply chains as a strategic threat, Western governments have responded by deploying a range of subsidies to secure end-to-end supply chains, from critical minerals to batteries and EV production. This article addresses Canadian subsidies' approach to onshoring green manufacturing, with a focus on EV supply chains in Ontario. Based on 20 interviews with government officials and industry leaders and a litera…
Artificial intelligence and ESG in resources-intensive industries
The implementation of artificial intelligence systems to ensure supply chain sustainability is increasing in numerous industries. • AI is mobilized to address specific sustainability issues in the fisheries, mining, plastics, and forestry industries. • AI has the potential to address identified issues but generally risks increasing consumption patterns of these industries, thus leading to unsustainable growth. • On one hand, AI has the ability to…
Unleashing American Energy? Uncertainties in energy transition developments under a new Trump administration
The United States (U.S.) needs critical minerals if it wants to compete with China in low-carbon and military technologies. The country is, however, caught in a dual dynamic. It needs increased critical minerals supplies but also engages in aggressive policies aimed at dismantling federal support for low-carbon products as well as establishing foreign trade barriers. This article is informed by political ecology and political economy and addresse…
Critical minerals lists for low-carbon transitions
Critical minerals lists have flourished in the past decade, in particular linked to the importance of critical minerals for low-carbon transitions. We identified 27 critical minerals or materials lists across 15 countries and the European Union (EU). These lists are designed to attract public and private attention and investments to secure both domestic and foreign supplies. This review article fills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing …
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism
From resource security to resource securitisation
Startup extractivism
Small, unevenly financialized companies are now shaping the development of new cobalt and nickel processing plants in the United States (U.S.). as the country seeks to secure its critical mineral supplies. Building on political ecology theories, this article develops the concept of startup extractivism, defined by three core characteristics: (1) structure: young companies with small teams, (2) economic model: growth based on venture capital witho…
Investigating extraction
Investigative journalism can improve social and environmental outcomes for extractive projects by exposing governance failures and information asymmetries. This paper offers a replicable methodological template for extractives coverage by reverse-engineering thirteen published investigations into oil and mining projects in Canada, Brazil, Guyana, and Ecuador. Many journalists already combine ground-truth interviews with primary records. Our contr…
Reuse of mining wastes or recycling? Socioecological perspectives of manganese reprocessing in the Czech Republic
Midstream geopolitics
The emerging geopolitics of critical minerals hinges not only on their extraction but also on their transformation. Smelters, refiners, magnet factories, and other processing facilities are new sites of geopolitical competition and dependencies, linking countries that increasingly see one another as strategic rivals. This article introduces the concept of midstream geopolitics to move beyond notions of resource geopolitics often focused on extrac…
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