Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she also co-chairs the Committee on Global Thought. Her books have been translated into 21 languages and include, most recently, A Sociology of Globalization (2007), Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), and the fourth, fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (2011).
Saskia Sassen
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The Big Picture: Defending Open Cities
Cities have distinctive capacities to transform conflict into the civic. In contrast, national governments tend to militarize conflict. This does not mean that cities are peaceful spaces. On the contrary, cities have long been sites of conflict, from wars between nations to wars between classes, as well as sites of racism and religious hatred, expressed […]
