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)
Reflection on field: Sociology illuminates the invisible structures of dominance.
Interview quote: Solidarity across borders is our greatest hope.
Contemporaries of Saskia Sassen
Other Sociologys born within 50 years of Saskia Sassen (1947).