Con audacia intelectual, Sassen construye el concepto de "expulsiones" para poner en descubierto los efectos devastadores de las formas extremas del capitalismo global.
Tanto desde la izquierda como desde la derecha, el léxico dominante sobre la globalización destaca el antagonismo entre lo global y lo nacional, y realiza descripciones razonables e intuitivamente satisfactorias de un mundo en proceso de...
Procesos transnacionales como la globalización política, económica y cultural enfrentan a las ciencias sociales con una serie de desafíos teóricos y metodológicos, que surgen debido a que lo global (ya sea una...
What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the...
Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water: today's dislocations cannot be understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, Saskia Sassen argues. They are more accurately understood as expulsions--from...
Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights , one of the worldâs leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made todayâs global era possible. Saskia...
Los análisis de la globalización económica suelen apelar a una dualidad entre lo global y lo nacional según la cual el primero de los términos acrecienta su poder a expensas del segundo. La introducción de un terc...
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...
This work looks at the way in which the new global economy works, examining its effect on the power and legitimacy of individual states. It argues that national sovereignty has not eroded, but states have begun to reconfigure, to decide where their respon...
In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh 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 investmen...