Rohstoffräume. Räumliche Relationen und das Wirtschaften mit Rohstoffen

Haumann Sebastian () and Thorade Nora ()
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Haumann Sebastian: Institut für Geschichte, FB 02 – Gesellschaftsund Geschichtswissenschaften, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Dolivostraße 15, D-64293 Darmstadt
Thorade Nora: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85, D-22039 Hamburg

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2016, vol. 57, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Space, and access to resource deposits in particular, is a central theme of studies in economic history. However, new approaches to the theory of space that highlight the relations between people, places and things as constituents of multiple and dynamic spaces, have so far rarely been systematically applied to questions relating to resource economies. By referring to spaces of resource extraction as “sites”, this introductory article develops the notion that spaces in which resources are accessed, distributed and consumed are not a fixed and pregiven category, but exist in dynamic spatial relations. These spatial relations can be made up of perceptions and images, such as geological knowledge or spheres of interests, social structures, such as in the distribution of real-estate property and in power relations, or they can be established by the expansion of infrastructures and by terms of trade. They also pertain to the physical properties of the resources themselves, especially when considering the environmental impact of extraction. All of these spatial relations are highly variable and change historically in interdependence with the dynamics of resource extraction.

Keywords: Raum; Umwelt; Rohstoff; Lagerstätte; Materialität; Stoffgeschichte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N O Q R (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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