Saskia Sassen

Author of The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.

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About the Author

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. She is the author of The Global City (Princeton) and Globalization and Its Discontents, and show more coeditor of Digital Formations (Princeton). She has written for the New York Times, Financial Times, and International Herald Tribune show less

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Works by Saskia Sassen

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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. (1991) 217 copies

Globalization and Its Discontents (1998) 172 copies, 1 review

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006) 139 copies

Cities in a World Economy (1994) 108 copies

Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014) 100 copies, 1 review

Guests and Aliens (1999) 69 copies

Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (1996) 63 copies

A Sociology of Globalization (Contemporary Societies Series) (2007) 63 copies

The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (1988) 27 copies

Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (2007) 19 copies

Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm (2005) 16 copies

Migranti, coloni, rifugiati: dall'emigrazione di massa alla fortezza Europa (1996) 10 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies (2018) — Editor — 7 copies

Contrageografias de la Globalizacion. Genero y Ciudadania en los Circuitos Transfronterizos (2003) 6 copies

Machtbeben. Wohin führt die Globalisierung? (2000) 5 copies

Cities in Transition: Power, Environment, Society (2016) 4 copies

Built Identity: Swiss Re's Corporate Architecture (2007) — Contributor — 4 copies

Los espectros de la globalización (Spanish Edition) (2008) 4 copies

Neither global nor national : the world's third spaces : Södertörn lectures #2 (2009) 1 copy

The new intermediate economy: between the client and uncertainty 1 copy

Globalization or Denationalization? 1 copy

Densidades 1 copy

Gesprungene Gehäuse. Identitätsbildung in der globalen Stadt. (2008) 1 copy

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An Inconvenient Truth [2006 documentary film] (2006) — Contributor, some editions — 277 copies, 8 reviews

The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook (1985) — Contributor — 49 copies

Entendre el món: amb onze pensadors contemporanis (2015) — Contributor — 24 copies

Le débat 80 : mai-août 1994 (1994) — Contributor — 4 copies

The Possibility of Hope [2007 film] — Sociologist of Human Migrations — 3 copies

Extranjeros en el paraíso (1901) — Author — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1949-01-05
Gender: female
Education: Université de Poitiers, France
Università degli Studi di Roma
University of Buenos Aires
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Occupations: Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Organizations: Columbia University
Harvard University
London School of Economics
Relationships: Sennett, Richard (husband)
Nationality: Netherlands
Birthplace: The Hague, Netherlands
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Italy

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ephemeral_future 285 reviews

Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen

An excellent book overall, that weaves together a massive amount of core research in how we have scaled up into an age of uncontrollable and unavoidable mining and monetisation, and how this is creating the expulsion of people from their land worldwide. Told with a strong voice and academic rigour, this book is grim but important.

A bit marred by a confusing Chapter 3, that uses too much domain-specific language to make it easy to read (from a non-expert in banking).

Aug 20, 2020

literary.feline 13 reviews

Globalization and Its Discontents by Saskia Sassen

Some interesting ideas regarding the place of global cities within globalization; however, I felt that the book became quite repetitive halfway through. I feel as though you could read the first couple of chapters to get the main ideas and not miss much by skipping the rest.

Dec 6, 2014