Saskia Sassen is a sociologist renowned for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. Her work delves into the impacts of economic restructuring and how the movement of labor and capital shapes urban life. She also examines the influence of communication technology on governance, observing the diminishing control of nation-states over these developments. Sassen coined the term 'global city' and her writings explore transnationalism and immigration with profound insights.
Examining the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, Saskia Sassen argues that sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, but that it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Yet a profound transformation is taking place, a partial de-nationalizing of national territory seen in such agreements as NAFTA and the European Union.
Eine klare und harte Kritik der Wirtschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts Zunehmende Ungleichheit, krasse Einkommensunterschiede, Flüchtlinge, Zerstörung von Land, Wasserknappheit: Die aktuellen Verwerfungen in der globalisierten Welt können nicht mehr mit den üblichen Begriffen von Armut und Ungerechtigkeit verstanden werden. In ihrem neuen Buch schlägt die renommierte Soziologin Saskia Sassen vor, dass man sie viel besser als Ausgrenzungen verstehen muss: aus dem Berufsleben, dem Wohnort, aus der Biosphäre. Erst dieser gemeinsame Gesichtspunkt macht eine luzide politische Analyse möglich, welche die grundlegende Logik und den Zusammenhang dieser scheinbar getrennten Effekte sichtbar macht.
Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion -- from professional livelihood, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes life possible. This hard-headed critique updates our understanding of economics for the twenty-first century, exposing a system with devastating consequences even for those who think they are not vulnerable. From finance to mining, the complex types of knowledge and technology we have come to admire are used too often in ways that produce elementary brutalities. These have evolved into predatory formations -- assemblages of knowledge, interests, and outcomes that go beyond a firm's or an individual's or a government's project. Sassen draws surprising connections to illuminate the systemic logic of these expulsions. The sophisticated knowledge that created today's financial "instruments" is paralleled by the engineering expertise that enables exploitation of the environment, and by the legal expertise that allows the world's have-nations to acquire vast stretches of territory from the have-nots. Expulsions lays bare the extent to which the sheer complexity of the global economy makes it hard to trace lines of responsibility for the displacements, evictions, and eradications it produces -- and equally hard for those who benefit from the system to feel responsible for its depredations
The Fourth Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of flows of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities, new types of migrations, financial crises, environmental catastrophes, and the multiplication of communication technologies. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world.
Argues that even while globalization is best understood as denationalization,
it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks
originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law. This book
also examines particular intersections of the digital technologies with
territory, authority, and rights.
Der Nationalstaat ist die komplexeste Institution, die die Menschheit je hervorgebracht hat, wie Saskia Sassen in ihrer neuen historisch-theoretischen Studie darlegt. Er ist das (Zwischen-)Ergebnis einer Jahrhunderte dauernden Entwicklung von Feudalismus, Kirche und Reich. Doch seine größte Transformation steht gerade erst am Anfang – wir bezeichnen sie als Globalisierung. Sassens Hauptthese lautet: Globalisierung findet in einem weit größeren Maße, als gewöhnlich anerkannt wird, innerhalb des Nationalen statt. Gerade das Nationale ist eine der Schlüsselinstanzen, die eine Entwicklung des globalen Rahmens erst möglich machen. Zugleich besteht ein Großteil der Globalisierung aus enorm vielfältigen Mikroprozessen, die zu entnationalisieren beginnen, was national konstruiert worden war: Politik, Kapital, städtische Räume, zeitliche Strukturen und vieles mehr.
Relocates the terms of debate surrounding globalization from the heights of global markets, states, and international corporations to the messier, more complex ground of the local, where broad globalizing trends are negotiated in interesting and often unexpected ways. This book employs ethnographies from the United States to Europe and Asia.
