Ruhr Residence 2017

Dankon!

Dankon (das ist Esperanto) an Yves (und Sylvie für die Zeichnung). Alle Fotos von Yves und mir. Texte aus dem Buch “Niemandsland” von Philip Dröge (Piper, 2017), selbstgschrieben und aus der arte Doku “Dokumente, die…

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IV Extraction

Extraction of resources from would-be state‘s territory and population to be able to carry out I – III

II State Making

Eliminate or neutralise competitors inside the territory  

The Four Activities Of State Building

According to Max Weber the state is “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. (…) James Tilly then suggests that state-building processes are…

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Duhamelschacht

The Duhamel Pithead Stocks are the largest in the Saarland. They belong to the Duhamelschacht which is part of the Bergwerk Saar. It commenced operations in 1815 and remained the last in service in the…

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