Selected texts by Saskia Sassen ( this texts are available for my students
and ex students in Development Planning Unit (University College London)
and Education for Sustainability Programme (London South Bank
University):
Saskia Sassen - Columbia University - www.saskiasassen.com
Global Health Conference, Montreal, Nov 2011
Beyond Inequality:expulsions
Presentation for seminar on
"Beyond Social Exclusion: Emerging Logics of
Expulsion"
The last two decades has seen a sharp growth in the
number of people “expelled” from their homes, villages, life projects, and
support systems; they include the displaced, the abjectly poor, workers
destroyed by their jobs, as well as surplus populations housed in ghettos and
slums. Their numbers are far larger than the new middle classes of India and
China.
Professor Saskia Sassen
argues that this may be symptomatic of a systemic transformation
taking us into a new phase of global capitalism. Read background
notes for seminar on 25 Nov. 2010.
Data from Tax Policy Center
From Schouten, P. (2011) ‘Theory Talk #43: Saskia Sassen on Sociology, Globalization, and
the Re-shaping of the National’, Theory Talks, http://www.theory-talks.org/2011/09/theory-talk-
43.html (06-09-2011)
Saskia Sassen on Sociology, Globalization, and the re-shaping of the national
Globalization has been a key feature of contemporary International Relations (IR), but
nobody has challenged our understandings and
misunderstandings of that contested concept as eloquently as
sociologist Saskia Sassen has. For over twenty years, she has
contributed to IR theorizing by vigorously arguing for a
sociological view on the shifting relations between the national
and the global. In this Talk, Sassen, amongst others, discusses
global cities and the differences that sociological approaches to
IR make, and elaborates on the constant and multiple rearticulations
of the national and the global.
Read the introduction of Sassen’s 2006 book Territory,
Authority, Rights
here
(pdf)
Read the first 10 pages of Sassen’s first book,
The
Mobility of Capital and Labor
(1988) here (pdf)
Read Sassen’s
Globalization or Denationalization?
(Review of International Political Economy, 2003)
here
(pdf)
Read Sassen’s
The
World’s Third Spaces
(openDemocracy 2008) here
(html)
Read Sassen’
The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier
(American Studies, 2000)
here
(pdf)
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