Saskia Sassen

Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology Saskia Sassen, PhD

New York, London, Tokyo

The Global City

Stefano Boeri

Sanford Kwinter

Bart Lootsma

Yorgos Simeoforidis

Nadia Tazi

Daniela Fabricius

Mckenzie Wark

Francois Chaslin

Jean Attali

Harvard Project on the City

Muliplicity

Moulier Boutang

Reinhold Grether

Celine Rozenblat

Mutations

The Third Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world.

Cities in a World Economy

Argues that present forms of political and economic structures in the global economy have led to income inequality, displacement of populations, and the destruction of land and water resources and pose dire consequences for countries around the world in the future.

Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

Expulsions

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 institución, un proceso, una práctica discursiva o un imaginario) trasciende el marco exclusivo del Estado-nación y al mismo tiempo habita parcialmente los territorios y las instituciones nacionales. Es así que aun cuando la mayoría de los procesos y las entidades que se encuentran en el interior de lo nacional son nacionales, cada vez resulta más necesaria la investigación empírica para determinar si todos ellos lo son, pues cada vez existen más casos de localización de lo global y de desnacionalización de lo nacional. Vista de esta manera, la globalización no se limita ya a la noción convencional que la define como un proceso de formación de instituciones exclusivamente globales y de interdependencia creciente entre los estados-nación del mundo. En efecto, si lo global reside en parte en el interior de lo nacional, resulta evidente que la globalización, en sus distintas modalidades, compromete de manera directa dos supuestos. El primero de ellos es la concepción implícita o explícita del Estado-nación como contenedor de los procesos sociales. El segundo es la correspondencia implícita entre el territorio nacional y lo nacional como característica, es decir, la idea de que si un fenómeno se da en una institución o en un territorio nacional, entonces debe ser de carácter nacional. En el marco de ese horizonte de reflexión, esta obra de Saskia Sassen aborda el análisis de dos dinámicas diferenciadas. Por un lado, la formación de procesos e instituciones explícitamente globales. Por otro lado, los procesos que no pertenecen necesariamente a la escala global y que, sin embargo, forman parte de la globalización porque, aun inmersos en territorios y dominios institucionales que en gran parte del mundo se consideran nacionales, incorporan redes o entidades transfronterizas que conectan múltiples procesos y actores locales o "nacionales".

Una sociología de la globalización

Una sociologia della globalizzazione

علم اجتماع العولمة

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Global Networks, Linked Cities

Offering a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration and specifically the US from 1960 to 1985.

A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow

The Mobility of Labor and Capital

Essays discuss the effects of globalization on the nation-state, looking at dealings that both strengthen and weaken the national idea, creating a concentration of resources and a diminishing of responsibility

Globalization and Its Discontents

A comprehensive analysis of the modern-day movement of refugees reveals the normalcy of cross-border migration in search of work and the contemporary developments, such as the mass dislocations during World War II, that have helped shaped the refugee concept at the end of the century.

Guests and Aliens

Relocates the terms of debate surrounding globalization from the heights of global markets, states, and international corporations to the messier, more complex ground of the local, where broad globalizing trends are negotiated in interesting and often unexpected ways. This book employs ethnographies from the United States to Europe and Asia.

Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

Deciphering the Global

género y ciudadanía en los circuitos tranfronterizos

Contrageografías de la globalización

Myria Georgiou

Alfredo Brillembourg

Jack Self

Brooke Holmes

Ian Strange

The Politics of Public Space is a quarterly publication of transcripts that speak directly to the city and the way we read it. The publication is edited and published by not for profit, design and research practice, OFFICE. Beginning in 2018 at OFFICE curated a series of informal lectures within contentious public places around Melbourne. Every Wednesday evening via an Instagram tip-off, students and members of the general public would meet for the discussions. The theme for the series was the Politics of Public Space, and it only seemed fitting for this to occur in situ. Thirty-one speakers have contributed to this discourse so far with backgrounds in; architecture, landscape architecture, planning, law, criminology, activism, urban design, public housing, sociology and public art, all with varying readings of the city. Each issue draws out new forms of investigation between the individual practices and the content gathered from the discussions.The second volume addresses the effects of COVID-19, including the sudden changes in the way we interact and view our public spaces. It contains excerpts from Myria Georgiou, Saskia Sassen, Jack Self, Brooke Holmes, Ian Strange and Alfredo Brillembourg.This publication curates a series of global perspectives as we all come to terms with a new way of life due to the virus. Myria Georgiou observes the emergence of digital solidarity groups throughout the UK as inequalities and vulnerabilities are foregrounded. World-renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen reveals the pervasiveness of power as the fragility of our global connectedness is further disclosed. The true publicness of our cities is revealed in Jack Self's account of protest and opposition to the political structures. Brooke Holmes depicts an interconnectedness between the health of the city and it's citizens traced back to antiquity. Australian artist Ian Strange unpacks his understanding of the home as he recounts a decade of practice into the subject. And Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg calls to arms the architecture profession to deal directly with issues of injustice within the built environment.

Public Lectures in Contentious Places

The Politics of Public Space, Volume 02

In her groundbreaking book, sociologist Saskia Sassen identifies two sets of processes that make up globalization. One is the set of global institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, global financial markets, the War Crimes Tribunals and the new global cosmopolitanism. However, there is a second set of processes, frequently ignored by most social scientists, that occur on the national and local level. These processes can include state monetary and fiscal policy, networks of activists engaged in local struggles that have an explicit or implicit global agenda, and local and national politics that are unknowingly part of global networks containing similar localized efforts. Sassen's new book focuses on the importance of place, scale and the meaning of the national to study globalization. By emphasizing the interplay between the global and the local, A Sociology of Globalization introduces readers to new forms and conditions such as global cities, transnational communities and commodity chains that are increasingly common. Sassen's expanded approach to globalization offers new interpretive and analytic tools to understand the complex ideas of global interdependence.

Sociology of Globalization

Argues that globalization continues to be shaped by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind. This book examines how three components of any society in any age - territory, authority, and rights - have changed in themselves across three major historical "assemblages": the medieval, the national, and the global. Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In "Territory, Authority, Rights", one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channelled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority. This process of state making produced some of the capabilities enabling the global era. The difference is that these capabilities have become part of new organizing logics: actors other than nation-states deploy them for new purposes. Sassen builds her case by examining how three components of any society in any age - territory, authority, and rights - have changed in themselves and in their interrelationships across three major historical "assemblages": the medieval, the national, and the global. The book consists of three parts.

From Medieval to Global Assemblages

Territory, Authority, Rights

Human Settlement Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Human Settlement Development deals, in nine parts and four volumes , with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Urban Sustainability and the Regional City System in the Asia Pacific; Peri-Urbanization: Zones of Rural - Urban Transition; Urban Sustainability: Theoretical Perspectives on Integrating Economic Development and the Environment; Rural Sustainability; Using Foreign Direct Investment to Improve Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services- The Case of Hanoi, Vietnam; The Long Road Towards Sustainable Cities: The Dutch case; Urban Dimensions of Sustainable Development; Rural Development: Participation and Diversity for Sustainability; The Cities, the State and the Markets: In Search of Sustainability These four volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Human Settlement Development - Volume I

Marc Zimmerman

Patricio Navia

Las ciudades latinoamericanas en el nuevo (des)orden mundial

Human Settlement Development - Volume III

Martino Stierli

Eduard Kögel

Jun Wang

Remy Sietchiping

Tiantian Xu

In 2014, Xu Tiantian, founder ofBeijing-based studio Design and Architecture (DnA) began to work inSongyang County, in China's Zhejiang Province. Her exemplary holisticplanning concept of Architectural Acupuncture, which has gained thesupport of local administrative and political leadership, aims atrevitalising rural areas and comprises the renovation of productionplants and of tourist and technical infrastructure as well as thecreation of venues for culture and education and of social housing. Eachof Xu's small-scale interventions at local level is unique, only thesmall budget is common to all of them. Moreover, they are allinter-related with each other and in their entirety serve the broadergoal of mutual enhancement. This book introduces Xu's concept ofArchitectural Acupuncture and discusses the influence of architecture oncultural self-understanding and economic renewal in 21st-century ruralChina. It features some 20 new buildings and conversions of existingstructures with diverse functions. Published alongside are essays byinternational economists, sociologists, and curators as well as by thesecretary of the Songyang County Party Committee, examining the social,political, and economic implications of sustainable planning andcollective action in the Chinese province.

Architectural Acupuncture As Driver for Socio-Economic Progress in Rural China. Projects by Xu Tiantian, DnA_Beijing

The Songyang Story

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