Her other books include guests and aliens, the mobility of labor and capital, losing control, and globalization and its discontents. The centrality of liberalized financial markets to increased global. Globalization and its discontents by saskia sassen 1998 0501 saskia sassen on. Sassen brings together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics. The centrality of liberalized financial markets to increased global interdependence is widely recognized, as is their power to discipline states. If lhe chapters of saskia sassens newest book globalization and itsdiscontents sound familiar, they may be. 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. Notes on the incorporation of third world women into wage labor through immigration and offshore production 7.
Saskia sassen is professor of sociology and of the social sciences at the university of chicago. Essays on the new mobility of people and money new york. Brutality and complexity in the global economy 2014. Saskia sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. Toward a feminist analytics of the global economy 6. 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.
Jacques, ermitte 2001 today haitians, tomorrow bahamians. Saskia sassen s book explores several major but neglected aspects of the forces of globalization. Brutality and complexity in the global economy speaker. For her fellow social scientists, saskia sassen is a leading scholar of globalisation. The ten essays were originally published between 1984 and 1998 in publications as diverse as the urban technology journal. From medieval to global assemblages princeton university press 2008, a sociology of globalization w. The basic premise of this book is that globalisation as an economic system doesn.
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Saskia sassens book explores several major but neglected aspects of the forces of globalization. Now available in paperback, globalization and its discontents is a collection of sassens essays dealing with topics such as the global city, gender and migration. This collection of essays, from sakia sassen, asks if globalization is killing off the nation. Globalization and its discontents is a collection of sassen s 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. Globalization and its discontents by saskia sassen, sassen. These citations may not conform precisely to your selected citation style. This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the. This collection of essays asks if globalization is killing off the nation state. Saskia is a student of cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gender and digitization three key variables running though her. Her books include the global city, guests and aliens, globalization and its discontents, and more. What purports to be a book on globalization is actually only peripherally about globalization writ large.
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Sassen, saskia 1998 globalization and its discontents. New york, london, tokyo saskia sassen, princetonnew jersey. She has received diverse awards, ranging from multiple doctor honoris causa to named lectures and. Saskia sassen university of chicago and london school of economics it is an honour and a pleasure to give the 10th ripe anniversary annual lecture, an opportunity to engage you in a discussion about the theoretical and methodological difficulties of studying and interpreting a variety of dynamics usually grouped under the term globalization. Service employment regimes and the new inequality 8. She eventually spent years in new york city, first at the city university of new york and then at columbia university, before moving on in the late 1990s to joint professorships at the university of chicago and the london school of economics, only to return to columbia in 2006.
Stiglitz on globalization and its discontents revisited. 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. She demonstrates how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and lowincome inner cities has become. Globalization and its discontents edition 1 by saskia. Required reading for anyone interested in globality and globalization. Isbn number 1565843959 9781565843950 seller id 256603. Reassessing the integration of haitian immigrants in the bahamas. Saskia sassen 1998 abstract this article has no associated abstract.
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