Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and is the former Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She studies cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work.

Among her recent books are The Global City (1991; 2001), A Sociology of Globalization (2007), Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014; new edition forthcoming), and Cities in a World Economy (1994; 2018). She is currently working on Unstable Territories, based on the Storss Lectures she delivered at the Yale University Law School. For UNESCO, she organized a five-year project on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over thirty countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2006; http://www.eolss.net). Her books are translated in over twenty languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Financial Times, Republica, El Pais, www.OpenDemocracy.net and several other newspapers and journals.

Sassen was born in the Netherlands, grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, and then began her professional career in the United States. She has received many awards and honors, among them multiple doctor honoris causa, the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences, election to the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, and named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.

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Many articles and interviews on www.saskiasassen.com

Sample Interviews:

"Age of Extinction: An Interview With Saskia Sassen", interview by Giulia Turino, King's Review, November 24, 2017.

http://kingsreview.co.uk/articles/interview-saskia-sassen/

"In conversation with Saskia Sassen", interview by G. Sampath, The Hindu, February 4, 2017. http://www.thehindu.com/books/I-think-we-need-more-cities-Saskia-Sassen/article17194604.ece

"Interview with Saskia Sassen",interviewed by Andrew Iliadis, Figure/Ground, March 9th, 2015.

http://figureground.org/interview-with-saskia-sassen/

"AD Interviews: Saskia Sassen", Arch Daily, August 22, 2013.

http://www.archdaily.com/418484/ad-interviews-saskia-sassen/

"A strong financial centre contributes to inequality", Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2013.

http://www.livemint.com/Specials/pHagXhGMg3sD1gpQIf1fXK/A-strong-financial-centre-contributes-to-inequality.html

"Why the middle class is revolting", The Hindu, January 22, 2013.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/why-the-middle-class-is-revolting/article4299097.ece

"The Global Street or the Democracy of the Powerless", Kultura Iberalna, February 2012.

http://kulturaliberalna.pl/2012/02/20/the-global-street-or-the-democracy-of-the-powerless/

"Se ha roto el ciclo, porque el salario del trabajador ya no permite mantener el consume", interview by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, El País, January 2012.

http://vimeo.com/36148271

"Saskia Sassen: geographer?", Globe - Planet Earth blog, 2012.

http://www.franceculture.fr/blog-globe-2012-05-23-saskia-sassen-geographe