BOOKS
Territory,
Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Princeton University Press, 2008 updated 2nd
ed. (1st
ed. 2006)
From the Publisher: Where does the nation-state end and
globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the
world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national
state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen 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 and respect for private authority. This process of state making
produced some of the capabilities enabling the global era. The
difference is that these capabilities have become part of new organizing
logics: actors other than nation-states deploy them for new purposes.
Sassen builds her case by examining how three components of any society
in any age--territory, authority, and rights--have changed in themselves
and in their interrelationships across three major historical
"assemblages": the medieval, the national, and the global.
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Cities
in a World Economy
Pine Forge Press, 2006, updated 3rd
ed. (1st ed. 1994)
From the publisher: The Third
Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how
certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money,
information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social
formation: global cities. 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.
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A Sociology of Globalization
(Contemporary Society Series)
W.W. Norton, 2006
From the publisher: This
groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and
nation to the study of globalization. Sassen identifies two sets of
processes that make up globalization: the first and more commonly
studied set of processes is global institutions, from the World Trade
Organization to the War Crime Tribunals; the second and less frequently
explored set of processes occur at the national and local level,
including state monetary policy, small-scale activism that has an
explicit or implicit global agenda, and local politics. Emphasizing the
interplay between global and local phenomena, Sassen insightfully
examines new forms and conditions such as global cities, transnational
communities, and commodity chains. This unique approach to globalization
offers new interpretive and analytic tools to understand the complexity
of global interdependence.
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The
Global City: New York, London, Tokyo
Princeton University Press, 2001 updated 2nd
ed. (1st
ed. 1991)
From the publisher: 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. What
distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the
formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the
growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic
transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been
updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in
globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.
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Guests
and Aliens
New Press, 2000
From the publisher: Guests and Aliens shows the causes of
immigration that historically have resulted in nations welcoming
incomers as guests of disparaging them as aliens. Sassen describes the
relative normality of the pursuit of work across borders during the
emergence of the European nation-states and explains the economic and
political mass migrations of Italians and Eastern European Jews during
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She also discusses the
dislocationsparticularly those after the end of World War IIthat have
engendered the refugee concept. By mapping the long history of global
migration, Sassen shows that the American experience is just one phase
in an extended history of border crossing.
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Globalization
and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money
New Press, 1999
From the publisher: 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. She demonstrates how vast the chasm between
metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become,
bringing together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory,
political economics, sociology and political science. Incisive and
original, she takes on common political, cultural and economics
misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful new look at our
increasingly global society.
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Losing
Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
Columbia University Press, 1996
From the publisher: 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. Sassen argues that a profound transformation is taking
place, a partial denationalizing of national territory seen in such
agreements as NAFTA and the European Union.
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The
Mobility of Capital and Labor: A Study in International Investment and
Labor Flow
Cambridge University Press,
1988
From the publisher: In
this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a new understanding of the
processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the
US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities
abroad, as well as foreign investment in the US, she examines the
various ways in which the internationalization of production contributes
to the formation and direction of labor migration.
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EDITED VOLUMES:
Deciphering
the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects
Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
From the publisher: Breaking with
prevailing scholarship, Deciphering the Global relocates the
terms of the 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. Each of the essays
in Saskia Sassens collection introduces a new type of complexity and
ambiguity to the study of the global, confronting questions of space and
the fact that both the local and the global are increasingly
multi-scalar. In turn, the chapters in this book expand the analytic
terrain of the global, demanding new methodologies and interpretive
frames for the study of globalization.
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Global Networks, Linked Cities
Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2002
From the publisher: In this new collection of essays, Sassen and a
distinguished group of contributors expand on the author's earlier work
in a number of important ways, focusing on two key issues. First, they
look at how information flows have bound global cities together in
networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become
"global" through the networks they participate in. Second, they
investigate emerging global cities in the developing world-Sao Paulo,
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai-Iran corridor, and
Buenos Aires. They show how these globalizing zones are not only
replicating many features of the top tier of global cities, but are also
generating new socio-economic patterns as well. These new patterns of
development promise to lead to significant changes in the structure of
the global economy, as more and more cities worldwide are integrated
into globalization's circuitry.
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Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
(with Robert Lantham)
Princeton University Press, 2005
From the publisher: Computer-centered networks and technologies
are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a
global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and
Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source
software development communities, transnational corporate production
systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks.
This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the
ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the
broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in
cyberspace.
While viewing technologies fundamentally in
social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations
nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific
technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies
digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in
thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars,
examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with
these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They
address the operation of digital formations and their implications for
the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider
contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and
other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn,
are shaping such forces.
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SELECTED ARTICLES (2000 - present):
2010
"L'Emergence D'une Nouvelle Geographie Transnationale" Le Monde Hors Serie (2010)
"The Global Inside the National: A Research Agenda for Sociology" Sociopedia.isa (2010)
"The City: Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory" City, Culture and Society (2010) 1:3-10
"A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions of
Primitive Accumulation," Globalizations, 7: 1, 23 - 50
"Cities are at the center of our environmental future," S.A.P.I.EN.S,
Vol 2, Issue 3, 2010
"Global inter-city networks and commodity chains: any intersections?", Global Networks 10, 1 (2010) 150-63
2009
"Cities Today: A New Frontier for Major Developments," ANNALS, AAPSS, 626, November 2009
"Looming Disaster and Endless Opportunity: Our World's Megacities," Megacities No. 2, 2009
"Sociologue Globale," Le Monde, 27 Mars 2009
2008
"Mortgage Capital and its
Particularities: A New Frontier for Global Finance." Journal of
International Affairs, vol. 62(1): 187-212.
"Two Stops in Today's New Global
Geographies: Shaping Novel Labor Supplies and Employment Regimes,"
American Behavioral Scientist, vol.52, no.3: 457-496.
"Challenges Facing Global Cities in the 21st Century,"
International Herald Tribune
Re-Assembling the Urban. Urban Geography,
vol. 29(2): 113-126.
Neither Global nor National: Novel
Assemblages of Territory, Authority, and Rights, Ethics & Global
Politics, vol. 1(1-2).
2007
"Response
[to Benhabib]", European Journal of Political Theory, vol.6
(4): 431-444.
2006
"Why Cities Matter," in: Cities. Architecture and Society, exhibition
catalogue of the 10. Architecture Biennale Venice, Marsilio, Venice
2006, p. 26-51
"Making Public
Interventions in Today's Massive Cities."
Static, London Consortium.
2005
The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage:
Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics. Globalizations, vol.
2(1): 79-94.
Regulating Immigration in a Global Age: A New
Policy Landscape. Parallax, vol.11(1): 35-45.
When National Territory is Home to the
Global: Old Borders to Novel Borderings. New Political Economy,
vol. 10(4).
Digging the penumbra of master categories.
British Journal of Sociology, vol. 56(3).
The Global City: Introducing a Concept.
Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 11(2): 27-43.
The Ecology of Global Economic Power:
Changing Investment Practices to Promote Environmental Sustainability.
Journal of Foreign Affairs, Spring 2005, Vol. 58(2).
[with Tim May, Beth Perry, Patrick Le Gales,
and Mike Savage] The Future of Urban Sociology. Sociology: the
Journal of the British Sociological Association, Vol.39(2).
2004
Local Actors in Global Politics. Current
Sociology, Vol. 52(4)
Going Beyond the National State in the USA:
The Politics of Minoritized Groups in Global Cities. Diogenes,
vol.51(3).
2003
The Participation of States and Citizens in
Global Governance. Symposium Globalization and Governance: The
Prospects for Democracy. Indiana Journal of Legal Studies, vol.
10, no. 5, iss.1
Globalization or Denationalization.
Review of International Political Economy 10(1) Feb.: 1-22
The State and Globalization.
Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,
vol. 5(2): 241-248.
2002
Towards a Sociology of Information
Technology. Current Sociology, vol. 50(3): 365-388.
Locating Cities on Global Circuits.
Environment & Urbanization, vol.14(1)
Governance Hotspots: Challenges We Must
Confront in the Post-September 11 World. Theory, Culture & Society,
vol.19(4): 233-244.
2001
The City: Between Topographic Representation
and Spatialized Power Projects. Art Journal, vol. 60(2): 12-20.
Global Cities and Developmentalist States:
How to Derail What Could Be an Interesting Debate: A Response to Hill
and Kim. Urban Studies, Vol.38(13): 2537-2540.
Impacts of Information Technologies on Urban
Economies and Politics. International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, vol.25(2).
2000
Digital Networks and the State: Some
Governance Questions. Theory, Culture & Society,
vol.17(4): 19-33.
Womens Burden: Counter-Geographies of
Globalization and the Feminization of Survival. Journal of
International Affairs, vol.53(2).
Territory and Territoriality in the Global
Economy. International Sociology, vol.15(2): 372-393.
Regulating Immigration in a Global Age: A New
Policy Landscape. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, vol.570, July.
Excavating Power: In Search of Frontier Zones
and New Actors. Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 17(1): 163-170.
New frontiers facing urban sociology at the
Millennium. British Journal of Sociology, vol. 51(1):143-159.
The State and Economic Globalization: Any
Implications for International Law? Chicago Journal of International
Law, Spring 2000, vol. 1(1).
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SELECTED
BOOK CHAPTERS (2000 - present)
"The Specialised Differences of Cities Matter
in Today's Global Economy, in
Reforming the City: Responses to the Global Financial
Crisis,
Sam Whimster
(ed.), Erf at London Metropolitan University: 2009.
"Cities in
Todays Global Age: An exploration of the new economic role of cities
and the networks they form in an increasingly global world in
Connecting
Cities: Networks (A Research Publication of the 9th World
Congress of Metropolis),
Metropolis Congress: 2008.
"Global Cities and Survival Circuits, in
Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds (2nd Ed.), eds. D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine
Baca Zinn. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Publishing. 2008 (1st ed.
2005).
"Electronic
networks, power and democracy pp.339-361 in
The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communications
Technologies Robin Mansell, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Danny
Quah and Roger Silverstone (eds.), Oxford University Press: 2007.
"Lιmergence dune multiplication
dassemblages de territoire, dautoritιs et de droits" in
Les Sciences sociales en mutation,
Michel Wieviorka (ed.). Paris: Auxerre, Editions Sciences Humaines:
2007.
"Urban Sociology in the 21st
Century, pp. 476-486 in
21st
Century Sociology: A Reference
Handbook,
Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck
(eds.), Sage: 2006.
Cities in a World Economy. In
The Globalization and Development Reader:
Perspectives on Development and Global Change, eds. J.
Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2006.
"Built Complexity and
Public Engagements." In
David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings:
Specificity, Customization, Imbrication,
Peter Allison (ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. 2006.
Commentary. In
Dialogues on Migration Policy, eds.
Marco Giugni and Florence Passy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2006.
Scale and Span in a Global Digital World. In
Architecture and Design in Europe and America,
1750-2000, eds.
Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy Rowe. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2006.
A Global City, in
A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics,
eds. David Nugent and Joan Vincent. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2006.
The Embeddedness of Electronic Markets: The
case of global capital markets. In
The Sociology of Financial Markets,
eds. Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda. New York: Oxford University
Press. 2006.
Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the
Study of Globalization. In
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena,
ed. Max Kirsch. New York: Routledge. 2006.
The City: Its
Return as a Lens for Social Theory, pp. 457-470 in
The Sage Handbook of Sociology
Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner (eds.), Sage: 2005.
The Global City: Strategic Site, New
Frontier, in
Managing Urban Frontiers: Sustainability and Urban
Growth in Developing Countries, eds. Marco Kainer,
Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, and Willy A. Schmind. Burlington, VT:
Ashgate. 2005.
New Global Classes: Implications for
politics. In
The New Egalitarianism, eds.
Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 2005.
Reading the City in a Global Digital Age, in
Future City, eds. Stephen Read, Jόrgen Rosemann and Job van
Eldijk. London: Spon Press. 2005
Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The
Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations. 2004.
Digital
Formations: New Architectures for Global Order. Eds. Robert Lantham
and Saskia Sassen. Princeton University Press. [click
for PDF]
The City: Localizations of the Global, in
Perspecta 36:
Juxtapositions: The Yale School of Architecture
Journal, eds. Macky McCleary and Jennifer Silbert.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. February 2004.
Globalization After September 11 in
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization:
From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism,
eds. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2004.
Beyond Sovereignty: de facto transnationalism
in immigration policy, in
Worlds on the Move: Globalisation, Migration and
Cultural Security, eds. Jonathan Friedman and Shalini
Randeria. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 2004.
De-nationalized state agendas and privatized
norm-making, in
Public Governance in the Age of Globalization,
ed. Karl-Heinz Ladeur. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004
The formation of intercity geographies of
centrality, in
Shanghai: Architecture & Urbanism for Modern China,
eds. Peter G. Rowe and Seng Kuan. Munich: Prestel. 2004.
Global Cities and Survival Circuits, in
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy,
eds. Barabara Ehrenreich and Russell Hochschild. New York: Holt
Paperbacks. 2004.
A Global City, in
Global Chicago, ed. Charles
Madigan. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2004.
The locational and institutional embeddedness
of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets, in
Markets
in Historical Context: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World,
eds. Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press. 2004.
Sited Materials with a Global Span, in
Society Online: The Internet in Context,
eds. Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2004.
Towards post-national and denationalized
citizenship, in Handbook of Citizenship Studies, eds. Engin F.
Isin and Bryan S. Turner. New York: Sage. 2003.
[click for PDF]
Reading the City in a Global Digital Age:
Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects, in
Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism
in a Digital Age, eds. Linda Krause and Patrice Petro.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2003.
Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the
Global Economy, in
Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends,
ed. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press. 2003.
Global Cities and Diasporic Networks:
Microsites in Global Civil Society.
Global Civil Society 2002.
Edited by Helmut Anheier et. al. Oxford University Press.
[click for PDF]
Deconstructing Labor Demand in Todays
Advanced Economies: Implications for Low-Wage Employment, in
Laboring Below the Line: Ethnography of Poverty,
Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy, ed.
Frank Munger. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2002.
Counter-geographies of globalization: Feminisation of survival, in
Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking
Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation, ed. Kriemild Saunders. London: Zed Books. 2002.
Globalization and the formation of claims,
in
Globalization at the Margins, eds.
Richard Grant and John R. Short. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002.
Governance Hotspots: Challenges we must
confront in the post-September 11 world, in
Understanding September 11, ed.
Craig Calhoun. New York: New Press. 2002.
Mediating Practices: Women with/in
Cyberspace, in
Living with Cyberspace: Technology and Society in
the 21st Century, eds. John Armitage and
Joanne Roberts. New York: Continuum. 2002.
A New Cross-Border Field for Public and
Private Actors, in
Political Space: Frontiers of Change and
Governance in a Globalizing World. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press. 2002.
Cities in the Global Economy, in
Handbook of Urban Studies, ed.
Ronan Paddison. New York: Sage. 2001.
"The Demise of Pax Americana and the emergence
of informalization as a systematic trend, in
Informalization:
Process and Structure, eds. Faruk Tabak and Michaeline A. Crichlow.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000.
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