The aim is to deeply historicize resources by looking at how they were conceptualised as well as managed in practical terms. Some thoughts on this here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

SCARCE engages #histSci#hisTech#EnvHist#EconHist to rethink capitalist development, technoscientific innovation, and sustainability by digging through administrative reports, from dowsers reporting on hidden deposits to top-level reform proposals.

SCARCE draws on the inexhaustible archives of mining bureaucracies across Central Europe. Mining files are polyphonic source materials and tend to integrate knowledge of different origins (scholarly, artisanal, archival, personal).

Hi all -- we’re on Bluesky now! ⚒ SCARCE aka "Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850 is a new ERC project @univie.ac.atscarce.univie.ac.at/kick-off/

The aim is to deeply historicize resources by looking at how they were conceptualised as well as managed in practical terms. Some thoughts on this here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

SCARCE engages #histSci#hisTech#EnvHist#EconHist to rethink capitalist development, technoscientific innovation, and sustainability by digging through administrative reports, from dowsers reporting on hidden deposits to top-level reform proposals.