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Boris michel at friedrichalexanderuniversity of erlangennurnberg. Lynd professor of sociology at columbia university and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics. He grew up in a traditional roman catholic family in north brabant and attended a gymnasium in neerbosch near nijmegen and in breda. Territory, authority, rights princeton university press. Cities are a type of socioecological system that has an expanding range of articulations. Saskia sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose now available in paperback, globalization and its discontents is a collection of.
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Ro b n s o n abstract a sociology of globalization has come into existence in recent years as both an umbrella for a number of traditional subfields and also as a theoretical enterprise. Ro b n s o n abstract a sociology of globalization has come into existence in recent years as both an umbrella for a. Expulsions expulsions brutality and complexity in the global economy saskia sassen the belknap press of harvard university press. Brutality and complexity in the global economy cambridge, ma, harvard university press, 2014 volume 55 issue 3 elisabeth schober. Visiting professor at the london school of economics. In this incompleteness lies the possibility of making making the urban, the political, the civic, a history. The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example, a recent version of adobe acrobat reader.
The fourth edition of cities in a world economy shows how certain characteristics of our turnofthemillennium flows of money, information and people have le. Globalization and global cities a deeper understanding of saskia sassen. Sassen is most concerned with the spatial, or scalar, realities of globalization as a process that restructures space and place, as evinced in her global cities. Saskia sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as denationalization, it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed. Saskia sassen is a professor of sociology at columbia university and the author of many influential books on the sociology of globalization, including territory, authority, rights. Saskia sassen is professor of sociology and of the social sciences at the university of chicago. This article charts and critically assesses sassen s particular sociology of.
Willem sassen was born in geertruidenberg, netherlands. With the postindustrial cities development of the technology and. In this short filmed interview, first in a series produced during the conference decoding asian urbanism held at the south asian institute at harvard university, dutchamerican sociologist. In the case of global cities, the dy namics and processes that get territorialized are global. Saskia sassen, a sociology of globalization, norton, new york, 2007. Pdf saskia sassen and the sociology of globalization. Correspondence should be addressed to saskia sassen, department of sociology, columbia university, ny. Globalization and its discontents, by saskia sassen. This paper discusses the cities that have the resources. Social scientists have attempted to theorize worldwide social. Among the most widelycited scholars in this emerging field is saskia sassen, a dutchborn sociologist and economist. Pdf globalization and global citiesa deeper understanding of. Globalization in the last twenty years has certainly been all consuming, not just for financiers, but also for analysts, journalists and professors.
Saskia sassen born january 5, 1947 is a dutchamerican sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. Massive and parallel changes have occurred in new york city since the late 1970s and in london and tokyo since the early 1980s. Saskia sassen argues that their remarkable similarity arises from their position as command posts in international finance and advanced services for business. Her other books include guests and aliens, the mobility. Saskia sassen is professor of sociology and a member of the committee on global thought at columbia university, and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics and political science.