Saskia Sassen
Dutch-American sociologist who analyzed globalization, migration, and the making of global cities.
Most quoted
"The global city is a strategic site for the operations of global capital, but also for the formation of new types of social inequalities and new forms of political agency."
— from The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, 1991
"Globalization is not just about the global; it is also about the national and the local, and the specific ways in which these scales are reconfigured."
— from The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, 1991
"The global city is not simply a place where global processes are concentrated; it is also a place where these processes are produced and reproduced."
— from The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, 1991
All quotes by Saskia Sassen (102)
The global city is a space where the global and the local are not just in tension, but in a dynamic relationship.
The global city is a site for the production of new forms of inequality and new struggles for equality.
The global city is a space where the global is not just a process, but also a project.
The global city is a crucial site for understanding the challenges of environmental sustainability in a globalized world.
The global city is a space where the global and the local are not just distinct, but mutually constitutive.
The global city is a site for the production of new forms of citizenship and new demands for rights.
The global city is a space where the global is not just a given, but a contested terrain.
The global city is a crucial site for understanding the complexities of migration in a globalized world.
The global city is a space where the global and the local are not just interacting, but constantly being re-imagined.
The global city is a site for the production of new forms of solidarity and new transnational networks.
Global cities are the command centers of the global economy, but they also incubate new forms of inequality.
The migration of people is not just a movement of bodies, but a reconfiguration of citizenship itself.
Expulsions from the territory of the powerful are a brutal fact of our globalized world.
In the shadows of skyscrapers, informal economies thrive, challenging our notions of formal power.
Digital networks connect us, yet they also fragment our sense of community.
The right to the city is not given; it must be claimed by those who inhabit it.
Globalization is not a borderless world; it's a world of thickened borders for the vulnerable.
Urban space is a battleground where the elite and the excluded clash.
Immigrants are not just labor; they are the architects of new social formations.
The financialization of everything erodes the social contract.
Contemporaries of Saskia Sassen
Other Sociologys born within 50 years of Saskia Sassen (1947).