Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and cochair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her most recent work is
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages, and in 2013 she was awarded the Principe de Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences.
33 Ebooks by Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen: Losing Control?
What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriali …
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€24.99
Daniel Innerarity: Governance in the New Global Disorder
When we talk about globalization, we tend to focus on its social and economic benefits. In Governance in the New Global Disorder, the political philosopher Daniel Innerarity considers its unsettling …
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€32.99
Stijn De Cauwer: Critical Theory at a Crossroads
We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its afte …
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€36.99
Eric Klinenberg & Sharon Marcus: Antidemocracy in America
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental …
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€18.99
Hilary E. Kahn: Framing the Global
Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor’s engag …
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€9.49
Vincent Jeffries: Handbook of Public Sociology
Public sociology-an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences-has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Han …
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€70.78
Saskia Sassen: Territory, Authority, Rights
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 …
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€46.99
Robert Latham & Saskia Sassen: Digital Formations
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large …
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€64.99
Saskia Sassen: The Global City
This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sa …
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Inc. SAGE Publications & Saskia Sassen: Cities in a World Economy
Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global citi …
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€54.99
Inc. SAGE Publications & Saskia Sassen: Cities in a World Economy
Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global citi …
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€54.99
Saskia Sassen: Ausgrenzungen
Eine klare und harte Kritik der Wirtschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts Zunehmende Ungleichheit, krasse Einkommensunterschiede, Flüchtlinge, Zerstörung von Land, Wasserknappheit: Die aktuellen Verwerfungen i …
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€14.99
Saskia Sassen: Migranten, Siedler, Flüchtlinge
Die heute fast vergessenen europäischen Arbeitsmigrationen des 19. Jahrhunderts sind fester Bestandteil der Industrialisierungsgeschichte Europas. Ohne die westfälischen »Hollandgänger«, die italieni …
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€14.99
Neville Alexander & Sharon Beder: Zukunft der transkulturellen Bildung – Zukunft der Migration
Das Buch ist ein Zeugnis der Arbeit der AG Interpäd (Arbeitsgruppe Interkulturelle Pädagogik) an der Leibniz Universität Hannover im letzten Vierteljahrhundert Interpäd ist eine der ersten interdiszi …
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€18.99
Mark Juergensmeyer & Saskia Sassen: Oxford Handbook of Global Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of n …
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€135.80
Mark Juergensmeyer & Saskia Sassen: Oxford Handbook of Global Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of n …
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€136.09
Saskia Sassen: Expulsions
Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water: today’s dislocations cannot be understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, Saskia Sassen argues. Th …
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€97.33
Saskia Sassen: Global Networks, Linked Cities
In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration …
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€59.19
Saskia Sassen: Global Networks, Linked Cities
In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration …
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€58.98
Saskia Sassen: Deciphering the Global
Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. …
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€57.74
Saskia Sassen: Deciphering the Global
Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. …
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€57.84
Mary Kaldor & Saskia Sassen: Cities at War
Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven …
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€29.99
Richard Rorty: What Can We Hope For?
Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential in …
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€18.99
Liam Young: Planet City
Planet City is a project by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, exploring the productive potential of extreme densification, in a speculative future where ten billion peopl …
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€20.99
Tania Bruguera: The Francis Effect
“The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just fo …
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€9.99
Natalia Ribas-Mateos & Saskia Sassen: Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration
This timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production. Natalia Rib …
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€61.18
Samer (University of Brighton, United Kingdom) Bagaeen & Ola (University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK) Uduku: Gated Communities
Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacul …
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€68.63
Samer (University of Brighton, United Kingdom) Bagaeen & Ola (University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK) Uduku: Gated Communities
Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacul …
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€69.13
Samer Bagaeen & Ola Uduku: Beyond Gated Communities
Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a ‘gated community’ to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft …
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€64.00
Samer Bagaeen & Ola Uduku: Beyond Gated Communities
Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a ‘gated community’ to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft …
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€63.72
Carlos Moreno: Die 15-Minuten-Stadt
Erstmals liegt das Konzept zur 15-Minuten-Stadt auf Deutsch vor! »Die 15-Minuten-Stadt ist ein pragmatischer Ansatz, um die nachhaltige Stadt von morgen zu entwickeln. Sie ist Ausdruck einer neuen Ur …
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€18.99
Saskia Sassen: Expulsions
Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocati …
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