Profile of the project CONCRIS - Constant crisis: an environmental history of Czech forestry in the long 19th century. Funded by the Czech Science Foundation, based at @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social | PI: @pszaboenviro.bsky.social
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Last week we presented the results of project at the 3rd From Forest to Heritage conference in Klagenfurt, Austria.
www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at
Got some positive feedback, now we're busy turning the presentations into papers!
We're proud to announce that our doctoral student Zuzana Siudová (third from the left in the pic below) won 2nd prize in the MA thesis competition of the Czech National Agricultural Museum. Congrats!👏🎉
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Most of the petitions concerning woodland centred around access to woodland resources: richer peasants complained that they used to have it but now the overlord took it away. Poorer peasants complained that they had gone from little to zero.
As the peasants saw it, the overlords relentlessly pursued their agenda of pushing them out of the forests: sometimes through legal tricks, sometimes through violence, sometimes through "the tyranny of the forest office"
If one is interested in how peasants saw the situation around forests and wood resources, it is worth looking at the many hundreds of petitions they sent to the so-called "národní výbor/Nationalausschuss" in the revolutionary year 1848.
Organized by @viktorpal.bsky.social, Ostrava held the largest international #envhist conference in Czechia since @eseh.bsky.social 2003 in Prague: ff.osu.eu/esiee/. We put together a whole session on crisis discourses, local conflict and forest ecosystem change.
Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry!
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The petitions range from sophisticated and self-assured (by wealthier peasants) to naive and desperate (by members of the rapidly expanding poorer layers of peasantry - they could usually read and write at this point, see pic, but observe how unsure much of the handwriting is)
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