Saskia Sassen

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Saskia Sassen
Sassen in 2012
Born (1947-01-05) January 5, 1947 (age 77)
The Hague, Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame
Known forStudies of globalization, world cities, and international migration
SpouseRichard Sennett
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, economics
InstitutionsColumbia University, London School of Economics
Thesis Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. political economy: the case of Blacks and Chicanos  (1974)
Websitewww.saskiasassen.com

Saskia Sassen (born January 5, 1947) is a Dutch-American

sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics. The term global city was coined and popularized by Sassen in her 1991 work, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.[1]

Education

From 1966, Sassen spent a year each at the

Ph.D. degree in 1974, under the direction of Fabio Dasilva. She also received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Poitiers
in 1974.

Academic posts

After being a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Sassen held various academic positions in and outside the US, such as the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.[citation needed]

During the 1980s and 1990s, Sassen emerged as a prolific author in

globalisation such as economic restructuring, and how the movements of labour and capital influence urban life. She also studied the influence of communication technology on governance. Sassen observed how nation states begin to lose power to control these developments, and she studied increasing general transnationalism, including transnational human migration. She identified and described the phenomenon of the global city. Her 1991 book bearing this title made her a widely quoted author on globalisation. An updated edition of her book was published in 2001. In the early 2000s, Sassen focused on immigration and globalization, with her "denationalization" and "transnationalism" projects (see Bibliography and External Links, below). Her books have been translated into 21 languages.[2]
Committee on Italian, European and International Criminal Procedure – Ibrerojur.[3]

Family and upbringing

Sassen was born in

Nazis, a Nazi journalist, and a member of the Waffen-SS. In the 1950s, Willem Sassen was close to Adolf Eichmann when both were living in Argentina, and she recalls him visiting her childhood home.[5] This association caused her and her mother to leave Argentina while she was still a child. Saskia Sassen spent part of her youth in Italy and says she was "brought up in five languages."[6]

She is married to sociologist Richard Sennett.[7]

Works

Authored books

Sassen's 1991 book The Global City charts how New York, along with London and Tokyo, became the most important cities in the global economy.

Edited books

Book chapters

Saskia Sassen at the Subversive Festival

Articles

Dissertations

  • [as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. political economy : the case of blacks and Chicanos (Dissertation, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1974).
  • [as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Social stratification, ethnicity and ideology : Anglos and Chicanos in the United States (Thesis, M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1971).

Honors and awards

See also

References

  1. ^ Columbia University Profile Archived 2009-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 17 May 2013
  2. ^ "Área de Justiça Penal Italiana, UE e Int". Iberojur (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  3. ^ Parry, Marc (December 5, 2014). "Saskia Sassen's Missing Chapter". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Saskia Sassen's Missing Chapter". 5 December 2014.
  5. ^ Joost Panhuysen (15 January 2004). "Wroeten in de mondiale stad" [Rooting in the global city]. Tu Delta (in Dutch). Technishe Universiteit Delft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  6. ^ Sassen, Saskia; Koob-Sassen, Hilary (December 23, 2015). "A monster crawls into the city - an urban fairytale by Saskia Sassen". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  7. ^ "The Universitat invests tomorrow, Friday, the sociologist Saskia Sassen and the philologist Josep Massot as Doctors Honoris Causa". 15 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Act of Investiture as a Doctor "Honoris Causa" of the Most Excellent Mrs. Dr. Saskia Sassen".
  9. ^ "CONSEJO GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO"./

External links