Fresh off the press: The future of mining or mining the future? Mapping corporate deep sea mining discourses.

Yet another output in our special issue with EXIS has been released online: “The future of mining or mining the future? Mapping corporate deep sea mining discourses.” In this piece, Oliver Lilford, Nicolai Skiveren, and Pascale Hatcher explore how DSM companies seek to legitimise their exploitation of the deep ocean. Using a corpus-assisted discourse studies approach, they showcase how the communication strategies of DSM corporations evolve over time in order to adapt to the changing political climate of the Anthropocene. The paper demonstrates how concerted efforts of ‘resource-making’ form a critical part of the historical representations of DSM, as it has developed throughout the past decades.

Available in open access here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214790X26000511