Famed for her analysis of globalisation, immigration and global cities (a term she is credited with coining) Saskia Sassen is a professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her latest work Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy will published by Harvard University Press in May. Sassen argues that today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and inequality. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional livelihood, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes life possible. Sassen is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities.
Further reading
Ideal architecture: An interview with Sassen on the future of cities and the role of architects in society
Control vs governance: The political drive to control population-flows is regressive and unworkable, says Saskia Sassen
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Further reading
Ideal architecture: An interview with Sassen on the future of cities and the role of architects in society
Control vs governance: The political drive to control population-flows is regressive and unworkable, says Saskia Sassen
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