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)
Speech: Reclaiming public space is reclaiming our humanity.
Personal reflection: Life's profundity lies in witnessing resilience amid chaos.
Witty: National borders? They're just speed bumps for capital, walls for people.
Key passage from 'Territory, Authority, Rights': Sovereignty is being disassembled and reassembled.
Correspondence excerpt: In academia, true insight comes from fieldwork's grit.
Interview: The future of cities depends on inclusive governance.
Professional: Migration flows reshape the very fabric of societies.
Aphorism: Cities are where the global meets the intimate.
Speech excerpt: Against expulsion, we build networks of care.
Reflection: Meaning emerges from the tensions of belonging.
Comeback: Optimism about globalization? Try talking to the evicted.
From 'Guests and Aliens': Denizenship challenges traditional citizenship.
Witty remark: Informal economies: where rules bend but innovation doesn't break.
Letter excerpt: Life's lessons are in the stories of the uprooted.
Observation: Financial centers extract value from distant peripheries.
Aphorism: Power's geography is uneven, and so is justice.
Speech: Urban citizenship is a practice, not a privilege.
Personal: In quiet moments, I ponder the beauty in human mobility.
Joke: Why study cities? Because that's where the action—and the inequality—is.
Key from 'Losing Control?': Sovereignty in the digital era is porous.
Contemporaries of Saskia Sassen
Other Sociologys born within 50 years of Saskia Sassen (1947).