Saskia Sassen is <a href="http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/sassen/faculty.html">professor</a> of sociology at Columbia University, New York, and at the London School of Economics.
It is crucial to become aware of the advance of financial speculation on poor housing in the Americas, says Saskia Sassen, interviewed by José Zepeda for democraciaAbierta.
Es urgente tomar consciencia del avance de la especulación financiera sobre las viviendas humildes en las Américas, afirma Saskia Sassen, entrevistada por José Zepeda para demoabierta.
What takes extreme forms in some countries, including Greece, is actually taking place in milder ways in many developed countries considered to have recovered from the crisis--from the US to the Netherlands. See part one here.
What takes extreme forms in some countries, including Greece, is actually taking place in milder ways in many developed countries considered to have recovered from the crisis--from the US to the Netherlands. See part two here.
Low growth, unemployment, inequality, and poverty are no longer reliable markers for capturing the 'economic cleansing' afflicting European institutions and societies throughout Europe. This 'works' on the backs of all those who have simply been expelled.
Bringing the political economy back into the city
Saskia Sassen
It’s 2030. Governments are poor and in hock to big banks. The urban poor and the impoverished urban middle
In thinking through the issues we were struck by how often failures happen at the level of the national state nowadays and remedies, responses, the making of solutions… all tend to happen at more local levels, from cities and villages to translocal networks and neighbourhoods.
Guest editors for 7 - 12 February, 2011, were Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett.**
Saskia Sassen introduces this week’s theme and its authors:
In thinking through the issues for
The state of Arizona’s clampdown on unauthorised residence is part of a wider political drive to control population-flows. The approach is regressive and unworkable, says Saskia Sassen.
