Tina Asmussen
Tina Asmussen, Assistant Professor of Early Modern Mining History at Ruhr University of Bochum and Head of the Mining History Research Department at the German Mining Museum Bochum.
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I’m a historian of early modern history of science and knowledge with a special interest in the history of mineral resources. I'm currently working on my second book project with the working title "Subterranean Œconomies: Mining and Resource Cultures in Early Modern Europe." My research aims at a more holistic understanding of mineral resources, and the practices of extraction and processing connected to them. I understand resources as socio-natural entities consisting of material, symbolic, epistemic, political, and discursive dimensions. Mining was embedded in cultural frameworks that cannot be reduced to a utilitarian and economic dimension. It is thus essential to connect the rates of production, the technologies of extraction, the expansion of infrastructure, or the increasing bureaucratization of production processes to the local belief systems, imaginaries, and expectations that were inextricably linked to both to the materials and technologies of extraction and processing.
