Sassens book a multilayered argument that unfolds over 447 chartpacked pagescaused a whole body of research to follow in its tracks, says fainstein. Sep 16, 2001 the global city by saskia sassen, 9780691070636, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. What distinguishes sassens theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form. For this episode of in contrast, ilan stavans is in conversation with saskia sassen about global systems and migration. Authority and rights in a global digital age piinccton university press 2005. She is the author of many books, including expulsions. Also in yesterdays class, i mentioned the work of columbia university professor saskia sassen, the leading authority on the concept of the global city. Brutality and complexity in the global economy saskia sassen cambridge, ma. She studies cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work. Her research and writing focuses on globalization including social, economic and political dimensions, immigration, global cities including cities and terrorism, the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current. The scope of this endeavor is quite staggering and she has to bring an number of different fields under the same conceptual umbrella in order to capture the elusive character of the city.
The belknap press of harvard university press isbn. Sassen shows how dangerously city life has been affected by the influx of employees of the multinational firms which move into major cities, and virtually colonise them, driving even greater wedges between the rich and poor, the compulsive spending classes and lowpaid part time labour attendant on their whims. Saskia sassen this classic work chronicles how new york, london, and tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. So that came out of the question, is it really true that this new system that removing this global era mean.
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 is the ralph lewis professor of sociology at the university of chicago, and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics. New york, london, tokyo ebook written by saskia sassen. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the global city. She authored this article in newsweek that looked at the expanding network of global cities and why europe and asia are overtaking america in the. Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Saskia sassen on the global city poli00190068 hong. Saskia sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. A global city, also called a power city, world city, alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The global city by saskia sassen, 9780691070636, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. This classic work chronicles how new york, london, and tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes.
Saskia sassen argues that their remarkable similarity arises from their position as command posts in international finance and advanced services for business. This book also suggests that high income gentrification and the type of conspicuous consumption associated with it serves a strong ideological function of securing the alliance of these workers to a system for which they produce immense profits in eschange for relatively low returns. Saskia sassen has 51 books on goodreads with 3738 ratings. What distinguishes sassens theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. After being a postdoctoral fellow at the center for international saskia sassen born in the hague, january 5, 1949 is a dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration.
All of this, however, also means that the global city is the space where an increasingly global and digital economy hits the ground, and becomes visible, concrete, men and women who want it all and get it all, e. Saskia sassens research and writing focuses on globalization including social, economic and political dimensions, immigration, global cities including cities and terrorism, the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. What distinguishes sassen s theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other. Saskia sassen this classic work chronicles how new york, london, and tokyo became.
Derudder b, hoyler m, taylor pj 2012 international handbook of. Lynd professor of sociology and is the former chair of the committee on global thought at columbia university. It argued that large, technologically advanced urban areas defined the modern world. Strategic sitenew frontier saskia sassen the master images in the currently dominant account about economic globalization emphasize hypermobility, global communications, the neutraliza tion of place and distance. What distinguishes sassens theoretical framework is the emphasis on the. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade. Globalization and its discontents by saskia sassen, sassen. Saskia sassen born january 5, 1947 is a dutch american sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. In these first two books she laid out a novel theory of the emerging global economic matrix. Brutality and complexity in the global economy, the journal of shinawatra university, vol. In this world then, a global city is a significant production point of specialized financial and producer services that make the globalized economy run.
Sassens first major book, the mobility of labor and capital 1988 was followed by the modern classic, the global city, first published in 1991 and updated in 2001. Brutality and complexity in the global economy 2014, the global city 2001, second edition, and cities in a world economy 2018, fifth edition. New york, london, tokyo princeton university press, 2001 updated 2 nd ed. Saskia sassen focuses on two systemic shifts in the global economy to. She produced the classic book on the topic, the global city, which you might consider reading. The observer a landmark study in the political economy of cities. The second step in all of this was the global city book. In her pioneering book the global city, saskia sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socioeconomic polarization. What distinguishes sassen s theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational.
The geography and composition of globalization part 2. Globalization and its discontents is a collection of sassens essays dealing with topics such as the global city, gender and migration reconceived as the globalization of labor, information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. They are more accurately understood as expulsions from professional livelihood, from living space, from the very biosphere that makes life possible. The question then becomes how to identify these cities, and perhaps to. In this collection of essays, saskia sassen deals with such current topics as the global city, gender and migration, information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Saskia sassen born in the hague, january 5, 1949 is a dutchamerican sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. What distinguishes sassens theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of. At the world post, read an interview with professor sassen about the charlie hebdo shootings in paris, asymmetric war war between a conventional army and irregular combatants, and how cities have become hosts to a third stage. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
In 1991, saskia sassen, a sociologist, wrote her most famous work, the global city. Lynd professor of sociology at columbia university and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics. What distinguishes sassen s theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form. The global city has had an exceptionally broad impact across the disciplines.
What distinguishes sassens theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic. This classic work chronicles how new york, london, and tokyo became. Lynd professor of sociology and cochairs the committee on global thought at columbia university. Saskia sassen on before method social science space. New york, london, tokyo princeton paperbacks revised edition by sassen, saskia isbn. Sassen shows how dangerously city life has been affected by the influx of employees of the multinational firms which move into major cities and virtually colonize them, riving even greater wedges between the rich and poor. Lynd professor of sociology at columbia university. Lynd professor of sociology and a member of the committee for global thought at columbia university. Saskia sassens missing chapter the chronicle of higher. A sociology of globalization, and cities in a world economy. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the global city. Saskia sassen is professor of sociology and of the social sciences at the university of chicago. She demonstrates how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and lowincome inner cities has become, bringing together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology and political science. Sassen brings together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics.