Podcasts about Saskia Sassen

FreshEd is on holidays. We'll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You'll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- Today marks the 3rd anniversary of FreshEd. To celebrate, we are going to air our first ever FreshEd Live event where Saskia Sassen joined me for a conversation about her life and work. Saskia Sassen is a professor at Columbia University. In 1991, she published the now classic book called The Global City where she chronicled how New York, London, and Tokyo became the centers in the new digital economy. What she focused on was the rise of intermediary services that allowed corporations to operate globally. Instead of seeing place as no longer necessary in the digital economy, she saw certain cities as physical sites that became more important than ever in the global economy. For Sassen, intermediaries concentrated in certain parts of the city and relied on high-level knowledge, like algorithmic mathematics. In New York City, financial services took over lower Manhattan. This left a peculiar reality for the physical buildings in the city. As a result, many people who didn't work in intermediary services were expelled from those parts of the city. And yet, despite this expulsion by intermediaries, new forms of inclusion were created. Today's show was recorded at Musashi University during the Third Japanese Political Economy Workshop organized by Nobuharu Yokokawa. https://freshedpodcast.com/sassen/ -- Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Da qualche tempo, per la prima volta nella storia, il numero di abitanti delle città ha superato quello delle campagne. E in un futuro nemmeno troppo remoto la maggior parte dell'umanità vivrà in grandi metropoli. Già negli anni Novanta del secolo scorso la sociologa Saskia Sassen parlava di «città globali»: New York, Milano, Londra, Seul, Pechino, Shanghai, Tokyo. Come spiega Federico Parolotto, sono metropoli multiculturali, poco rappresentative dei rispettivi Stati nazionali, sempre più integrate nell'economia globale. Anche la loro gestione segue regole nuove, dal punto di vista delle politiche abitative, turismo, sostenibilità ambientale e nuove tecnologie digitali. Zurigo potrebbe essere la miglior candidata svizzera per questo ruolo, secondo Giulia Scotto. Diverse voci critiche, come quella di Davide Galleri, hanno tuttavia sottolineato le ombre e i limiti di questo modello. C'è poi chi non pensa proprio di trasferirsi in città e celebra piuttosto la bellezza dei paesi e la restanza, termine coniato dall'antropologo Vito Teti, ospite nell'ultima parte del programma.  

Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology and member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Saskia's most recent book is 2007's "A Sociology of Globalization" (WW Norton). She wrote this week's openDemocracy piece, "The new executive politics: a democratic challenge". Before that, she wrote April's openDemocracy article, "Too big to save: the end of financial capitalism."

On this week's episode, we sit down with Dr. Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a co-chairs of Columbia's Committee on Global Thought. We explore issues of inequality, inclusion, and health, and try to better understand how these problems have evolved in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. For more from ABROADcast and the Columbia University Journal of International Affairs, visit our website at https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/.

Har byen et eget språk, og hvis det er sant, hva prøver den å fortelle oss, spør tre fagpersoner innen byutvikling fra Norconsult. Denne våren har Norconsult gjort et dypdykk i temaet by og byutvikling, der blant annet bypakker og hvordan gå fra sentrumsdød til sentrumsglød og hvordan man skaper et godt bymiljø er blitt diskutert av selskapets rådgivere og eksterne gjester. I den femte episoden om byutvikling stilles det spørsmål om byen har et språk. Hva sier den og hvordan kan vi oppfatte hva den sier? Mer enn arkitektur Tor Atle Odberg, seniorrådgiver mobilitet og byutvikling i Norconsult, Sander Dekker, fagspesialist bærekraftig byutvikling i Norconsult, og Rina Brunsell Harsvik, senior prosjektleder bærekraftig byutvikling i Norconsult, tar utgangspunkt i et spørsmål professor og urbansosiolog Saskia Sassen stilte i 2014: Har byen et språk? – Som turist ser man gjerne på arkitektur og bygninger når man besøker en by, men i tillegg ser gjerne fagfolk som oss på ting som tetthet og funksjon. Det vil si om det er boliger, kontorer og bykultur, Men som fagfolk kan vi ikke umiddelbart si at dette utgjør noe språk. Eller at vi i det hele tatt har reflektert over dette., sier Odberg. Saskia Sassen, som er kjent for boken The Global City, er både økonom, statsviter og filosof og kjent for sine analyser av globalisering og internasjonal menneskelig migrasjon. Hun jobbet mye med urban sosiologi på 80- og 90-tallet og er svært opptatt av økonomiske ulikheter og miljøutfordringer i bymiljøer. – Byer er kompliserte, siden det ikke bare handler om det fysiske, men det sosiale og alt vi ikke klarer å oppfatte. Byer har også evnen til å skape noe nytt hele tiden og kan endre seg enormt over tid, så det man husker som en fantastisk by kan plutselig oppleves annerledes. Ut fra en bys fysiske og sosiale elementer kan den, ifølge Sassen, systematisk gi oss tilbakemeldinger. Den har et urbant språk, sier Brunsell Harsvik. For å forklare det hun mener trekker Sassen frem eksemplet om en bil, som er bygget for hastighet, som tar av fra motorveien og kjører inn i byen. Den møter en trafikkork som ikke bare består av biler, men også et mylder av mennesker. Plutselig mister bilen sin funksjon til å være rask og mobil. Byen har talt. Ambisjoner Sander Dekker er enig med Sassen. Han tror at ved å se på byens gater kan gatene fortelle mye om hvordan samfunnet er. – Gatene er de mest kjente funksjonelle elementene i en by, de sier mye om hvordan samfunnet er. Den har et historisk perspektiv, den kan forklare økonomiske valg eller muligheter og ambisjoner, sier Dekker. – Men byen kan også fortelle deg hvor du er i byen basert på tilbakemeldinger til deg fordi du opplever mer enn det fysiske. Det er mange måter byen snakker på, for eksempel gjennom graffiti, kunst, eller mangfoldet i byen. Amsterdam er et godt eksempel på det siste og oppleves som varm og fri. Man kan si at byen blunker til deg og sier ‘elsk meg og benytt meg', legger han til. Siden det snart er sommerferie gir alle tre sine byferietips basert på sine favorittbyer og hvordan disse byene snakker til deg når du besøker dem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saskia Sassen in conversation with Michele Acuto to discuss the brutality of housing inequalities and the social impact from a global perspective.This recording is from a live virtual event, part of the 2021 Housing Assembly symposium held in November at the Melbourne School of Design and brought to you in collaboration with the University of Melbourne Affordable Housing Hallmark initiative.You might also enjoy our other podcast Climate Talks. Created with Melbourne Climate Futures it focuses on COP26 and the big issues surrounding climate action, sustainability, and resilience.

Recorded live: 24 June 2020 This Dialogue & Debate webinar explors how trends of perceived decline of UK high streets might be reversed. We will be discussing how high streets might regain their distinctive character and play a greater role in supporting social cohesion and nurturing communities in creative and sustainable ways, with Claire Bailey, Cllr Matthew Brown, Lahari Rumani, and Saskia Sassen.

This month on the podcast we were honored to spend some time with the renowned Saskia Sassen, who is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in New York City. Her research and writings focus on globalization, global cities, states in the world economy, and international human migration. The three key variables that have run through her work are the exploration of inequality, gendering, and digitization. Dr. Sassen shared with us her approach to her work and how she like to break disciplinary silos and bring disparate conversations together. Our conversation was wide ranging as we explored the connections between health, commuting, and urban inequality – especially the role of unjust outcomes and why our societies accept the extreme conditions brought on by the concentration of wealth. We discussed how the financial sector has used increasingly complex methods to squeeze profits out of the poorest people. In addition, we pondered why owning a car has become less important in popular consciousness (among many other things!!) If you would like to follow Dr. Sassen, please find her on Twitter @SaskiaSassen. If you want to get into her work check out her book Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Her webpage http://www.saskiasassen.com/ also has lots of resources and links to her work. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where she researches globalization and migration in the context of global cities, a term which she coined in her 1991 book of the same name. Professor Sassen looks back on the three decades since the publication of her seminal study and offers her predictions on what’s in store for cities in the decades still to come.

New York City is at a crossroads. So say Carlo Ratti and Saskia Sassen in a recent Bloomberg CityLab article, “The Case for a Duty to the City.” Many wealthy residents are fleeing New York City for the suburbs. Perhaps a third of the small businesses that closed down last year won’t be returning. And, according to a recent survey, executives report plans to reduce office space by 30%. Ratti, the director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sassen, a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, say New York has a choice right now: If we do not act, we might end up with a metropolis of zombie neighborhoods, engulfed in a downward spiral of struggling businesses catering to increasingly empty offices. However, if we implement the right policies and foster a quick restructuring of real estate assets, the looming disruption may give us an opportunity—to test out urban policies we have never had the will or the necessity to imagine, much less implement. With familiar options destabilized, the times are inviting us to be innovators. To revitalize the city they suggest policy changes like vacancy taxes, more flexible zoning regulations, and working with governments and nonprofits to provisionally repurpose properties. They make the case that owners and tenants have a “duty” to the city: If you have a property in the city, you should not leave it empty. Why a duty? Because a city “is not just an agglomeration of real estate assets; it is primarily a repository of human vitality, without which those assets would be worthless.” Ratti and Sassen’s article is the topic of this week’s episode of Upzoned, with host Abby Kinney, an urban planner in Kansas City, and regular cohost Chuck Marohn, the founder and president of Strong Towns. Abby and Chuck talk about the challenge of transitioning the financial and regulatory environments in a place like New York, the pros and cons of a vacancy tax, and the systems that encourage land speculation. They also talk about the powerful rhetoric of “duty,” and how it might help towns and cities—including, but certainly not limited to, New York City—get unstuck and start building real prosperity. Then in the Downzone, Chuck recommends Uprooted, the new book by Grace Olmstead. (Olmstead was our guest on Monday’s Strong Towns podcast.) And Abby talks about an upcoming vacation. Additional Show Notes “The Case for a Duty to the City,” by Carlo Ratti and Saskia Sassen “Grace Olmstead: The Legacy—and the Future—of the Places We’ve Left Behind” (Podcast) “Richard Florida: Remote Work and ‘The Rise of the Rest’" (Podcast & Video) Abby Kinney (Twitter) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Gould Evans Studio for City Design Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom (Soundcloud) Strong Towns content related to this episode: “New York transit is facing ‘Doomsday’ cuts. Should non-New Yorkers bail it out?” by Charles Marohn “Pandemic Fallout: Will New York City Experience Long-term Decline?” (Podcast) “Thank You from a Land Speculator” (Video) “This $15 Trillion Market Is On the Verge of Collapse” (Podcast) “Why Is That House or Storefront Vacant?” by Tracy Hadden Loh and Michael Rodriguez “The Paradox of Persistent Vacancies and High Prices,” by Charles Marohn

En el sucesivo volumen ahondaré y rescatare ideas que son tal cual planteadas por diversos literatos y de alguna modo hago reflexionar acerca de  las temáticas en ellos planteada puntualizando de forma precisa conceptos e ideas y de igual modo solidificare propiamente estos conceptos transportándose a un mundo actual: en cuanto a diversos tópicos y ello incluye las Consideraciones generales sobre Geografía: su evolución, objeto, Geopolítica y Geoeconomía, La Conflictividad mundial por recursos, Las Problemáticas Medioambientales globales, El Cambio climático, Análisis de sistemas-mundo, Espacio, escalas, globalización e integración Ortega Valcárcel. “El objeto de la geografía: las representaciones del espacio”, en Los horizontes de la Geografía, p. 333-365. Roseira, Antonio. “Geografia e Relações Internacionais, pp. 64-86 John Agnew, “Entre la geografía y las relaciones internacionales”, pp. 85-98. Smith, Neil. “The ideology of nature”, en Uneven Development, pp. 1- 31. Smith, Neil, “The production of nature”, en Uneven Development, pp. 32-65 Klare, Michael. Wealth, “Resources and Power: The Changing Parameters of Global Security”, en Resource Wars, The new lannscape of global conflict, p. 1-32. Bartra, Armando. “La gran crisis”, 191-303. Quintana Solórzano, Fausto. “Dinámicas, escalas y dimensiones del cambio climático”, pp. 181-200. Conde, Cecilia. Cambio climático. De lo inequívoco a lo incierto, pp. 17-31. Wallerstein, Immanuel. Análisis de sistemas-mundo, p. 19-31 Harvey, David. Espacios del capital, pp. 332-365. Vesentini, William J. Capitalismo, Estado e espaço geográfico, pp. 13-29. Sassen, Saskia. “The global inside the national”, p. 1-10. Massey, Doreen. “Geometrías internacionales del poder”, pp. 115-122. Nogue, Joan & Vicente Ruffi. “Un siglo de tradición disciplinar”, pp. 29-64. Saskia Sassen, “Territorio, Autoridad y Derecho, de los ensamblajes medievales a los ensamblajes globales”,pp. 19-40. Raffestin Claude, El territorio y el poder, pp. 102-129.

Jorge Fontevecchia en entrevista con la socióloga, escritora y profesora Saskia Sassen

On the final episode of season two, Vishakha N. Desai interviews Committee on Global Thought member, and former chair, Saskia Sassen. She discusses her latest book with Mary Kaldor, Cities at War. The book examines cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. Sassen’s perspective on cities and their geographies provides new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee for Global Thought at Columbia University. Her research and writing focuses on globalization, immigration, global cities, new technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. Her interests include urban sociology, the sociology of transnational processes and globalization, technology, the dynamics of powerlessness in urban contexts and migration.

“Quitamos el hábitat a toda una serie de elementos vivos y llegó este virus joven y agresivo”, dice la socióloga Saskia Sassen. La pandemia es consecuencia de la destrucción sistemática de aguas, tierras y aire, pero no sabemos cuáles serán las nuevas manifestaciones de esta crisis. ¿Qué pasará con las nuevas generaciones? ¿Y con la globalización? ¿Seguirá como viene o empezará un declive? Segundo episodio de la tercera temporada de Batalla Cultural, una producción original de Anfibia Podcast. Conducción: Iván Schuliaquer. Producción: Ezequiel Fernández Bravo. Edición: Radio La Otra. Diseño: Sebastián Angresano.

A special episode of PUSHBACK Talks! The Filmmaker and The Advocate reconnect with Saskia Sassen, prominent Professor of sociology at Columbia University, one of the world’s most important thinkers on cities, and a central character in PUSH-The film. The trio continue the conversation about why so many people can't afford their homes any longer. Going to the heart of the matter they unpack Saskia’s powerful analysis that finance – which now dominates residential real estate – is an extractive sector, like mining. Once finance has extracted what it needs it moves on without a care for what's left behind. The conversation turns to a deep probing of the meaning and relevance of “money”. When money is used by institutional investors to create new financial instruments, or to leverage more capital is it still "money" as we know it or have we exited the domain of money? The co-hosts wrap up by querying where the uber commodification of housing is going. Have we entered a new epoch where familiar rules and systems that might regulate financialization are thrown out? Will financialization eat itself up? Or will people who are pushing back force change?Produced by WG Film Recorded & Edited by Mikey JonesMusic by Florencia Di ConcilioSocial Media & Support Team - Louise Gustafsson, Maja Moberg & Melinda BergstrandSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/pushbacktalks)

The language we use can clarify, empower, and even change minds. It can also create a club that shuts people out: if you speak the language, you’re in, otherwise, stay out! Financialization, markets, real estate, IPOs, assets, security …. The Filmmaker and The Advocate scratch their heads and stumble through the lingo they’ve come across in their journey to understand why people can’t afford to live in cities anymore. Defining the terms, Leilani and Fredrik expose how investor language bolsters the financialization of housing and erases the people who live there. But what happens when Fredrik and Leilani insert human rights language into the conversation? Produced by WG Film Recorded & Edited by Mikey JonesMusic by Florencia Di ConcilioSocial Media & Support Team - Louise Gustafsson, Maja Moberg & Melinda BergstrandSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/pushbacktalks)

The Filmmaker and The Advocate explore whether it’s actually gentrification that’s ruining our neighbourhoods or something else. Fredrik fiercely defends the rise of cortados (and bike lanes!) in neighbourhoods across the world and Leilani discusses the failures of New York’s High Line. With inspiration from clips of the always brilliant Prof. Saskia Sassen in the film PUSH, and 17-year-old Londoner, Hope Bhargava, the co-hosts agree that whatever you call it, what’s really driving people out of their homes and cities is that housing is being used as a financial instrument – a place to hide, park, and extract money!Produced by WG Film Recorded & Edited by Mikey JonesMusic by Florencia Di ConcilioSocial Media & Support Team - Louise Gustafsson, Maja Moberg & Melinda BergstrandSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/pushbacktalks)

En esta ocasión Carlos y yo discutimos una conferencia dada por la socióloga Saskia Sassen. La pregunta es ¿qué tanto y cómo podemos aprovechar las condiciones urbanas existentes para empujar cambios? #Sassen #ciudadglobal #capitalismo también nos encuentras en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6HL1FzFQGVJdtiC8XIhFQg?view_as=subscriber --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christian-godl/message

In this episode, John Spencer is joined by Dr. Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She is the author of eight books, including Cities in a World Economy and The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, and the editor or co-editor of three books, most recently Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance. She joins to discuss her research on global cities, a term she coined to describe cities in which a multiplicity of globalization processes assume concrete, localized forms.

Arrancamos esta serie de encuentros 'Repensando el mañana' visitando a los dos de los sociólogos más aclamados del mundo. Saskia Sassen, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2013, y Richard Sennett, profesor de Sociología en el MIT y de Humanidades en la Universidad de Nueva York, nos reciben en su domicilio londinense para darnos su visión de la situación que estamos viviendo y cómo se está perfilando el mundo en la era poscovid-19. Más información en: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/sassen-sennett-ciudad-abierta-desafios-ante-un-futuro-incierto/ Un nuevo espacio para una nueva cultura: visita el Espacio Fundación Telefónica en pleno corazón de Madrid, en la calle Fuencarral 3. Visítanos y síguenos en: Web: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EspacioFTef Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/espaciofundaciontef Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/espacioftef/ https://www.youtube.com/user/CulturaSiglo21

Arrancamos esta serie de encuentros 'Repensando el mañana' visitando a los dos de los sociólogos más aclamados del mundo. Saskia Sassen, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2013, y Richard Sennett, profesor de Sociología en el MIT y de Humanidades en la Universidad de Nueva York, nos reciben en su domicilio londinense para darnos su visión de la situación que estamos viviendo y cómo se está perfilando el mundo en la era poscovid-19. Más información en: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/sassen-sennett-ciudad-abierta-desafios-ante-un-futuro-incierto/ Un nuevo espacio para una nueva cultura: visita el Espacio Fundación Telefónica en pleno corazón de Madrid, en la calle Fuencarral 3. Visítanos y síguenos en: Web: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EspacioFTef Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/espaciofundaciontef Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/espacioftef/ https://www.youtube.com/user/CulturaSiglo21

SURA y Hay Festival 2020 comparten las reflexiones de diferentes pensadores para imaginar el mundo después del COVID-19. En esta ocasión, la invitada es la escritora y socióloga Saskia Sassen, quien reflexiona sobre cómo el virus ha transformado el comportamiento de los seres humanos y lo que significa que un virus, imposible de ver u oír fácilmente, haya puesto en jaque a la humanidad.

This Dialogue & Debate webinar explors how trends of perceived decline of UK high streets might be reversed. We will be discussing how high streets might regain their distinctive character and play a greater role in supporting social cohesion and nurturing communities in creative and sustainable ways, with Claire Bailey, Cllr Matthew Brown, Lahari Rumani, and Saskia Sassen.

Con Saskia Sassen, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2013, analizamos cómo ha impactado la pandemia de COVID-19 en el modo de vida urbano Según Sassen, la crisis sanitaria actual ha dejado al descubierto la precaria situación de las clases con menos recursos. En su opinión, la pandemia es un recordatorio de la incapacidad de la humanidad para controlar la naturaleza. Escuchar audio

Este jueves 11 de junio, Cinco continentes comienza con el anuncio del presidente de EEUU sobre sanciones a funcionarios de la Corte Penal Internacional que investigan posibles crímenes de guerra cometidos en Afganistán por soldados estadounidenses. Además, actualizamos las últimas propuestas de la UE sobre la reapertura fronteriza y nos fijamos en la decisión de la justicia de Italia de llamar a declarar al primer ministro Giussepe Conte por las primeras decisiones de su gestión de la crisis del coronavirus. Abordamos la cuestión de los efectos de la pandemia en la habitabilidad de las grandes ciudades con la socióloga y Premio Príncepe de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2013, Saskia Sassen y les contamos cómo está la situación epidemiológica en Bolivia, donde se acaba de ratificar que habrá elecciones presidenciales el 6 de septiembre.  Escuchar audio

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Publicaremos hoje no República de Ideias um podcast (também em formato de vídeo) em que Emmanuel Rapizo, Marco A. de Carvalho Silva e André Magnelli conversam sobre os artigos de Zizek, Byung-Chul Han e Jonanildo Burity sobre a atual crise, não sem incluir no papo os textos de Daniel Chernilo, Paulo Henrique Martins e Saskia Sassen. O objetivo não é apenas pensar sobre o que está ocorrendo hoje, mas também refletir sobre nosso futuro, sobre caminhos porvir. Tópicos O diálogo crítico entre Zizek e Byung-Chul Han A visão de S. Žižek sobre a China:o golpe dos cinco passos; A crítica de Byung-Chul Han: aprendizados com a China e os países asiáticos; O que seria o comunista para S. Žižek? Liberalismo diplomado? Social democracia? Um vírus messias?; Byung-Chul Han: será o vírus mesmo um ponto de inflexão? Algumas noções sobre Byung Chul-Han em sua obra: terror da imanência, imunologia e pós-imunologia; Questão da "permissividade" nas nossas sociedades: convergências entre os autores; Pensando por contrastes entre o "oriente" e o "ocidente"; A questão do sistema internacional. Visões alternativas: Joanildo Burity e Daniel Chernilo Daniel Chernilo: desafios para a democracia diante do desencaixe entre sistema interncional, globalização e Estado-nação; Saskia Sassen: território, autoridade e direitos. Mudanças não zeram tudo! Quais capacidades são necessárias para superar a crise contemporâneas? Comparação entre as concepções do que pode vir da crise pandêmica contemporânea? Comparação entre os autores; Aprender a ser si mesmo com o conjunto: construir a convivialidade, renovar a psicanálise; Reencaixar global, internacional e nacional: retomar a capacidade do Estado agir e assumir as políticas públicas; Terminando com uma poesia de Camões.

“La tecnología no es buena o mala, la tecnología es neutral. El problema es el mal uso que los humanos podemos hacer de ella”. Y sobre este concepto, y muchos otros, versa este episodio de Encuentros, que tiene llugar dentro del marco del Foro Telos ¿Hacia dónde nos lleva el progreso tecnológico? Para responder a esta cuestión, y muchas otras, dos protagonistas: Saskia Sassen, profesora de Sociología de la Cátedra Robert S. Lynd en la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York, galardonada con el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Ciencias Sociales en 2013; Carlo Ratti, Director del MIT Senseable CityLab en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, y experto en el uso de la tecnología para la mejora de las ciudades. La charla es moderada por el Director de la revista Telos Juan M. Zafra. Más información en https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/foro-telos-ciudades-inclusivas-ciudades-sostenibles/ Encuentros es un podcast producido por Cuonda y Fundación Telefónica, con música de DJ Moderno cedida bajo licencia CC y conducido por Luis Quevedo y Sergio F. Núñez. Si quieres conocer más sobre Fundación Telefónica y sus actividades, visita www.fundaciontelefonica.com y en sus redes sociales (@fundacionTef y @EspacioFTef).

“La tecnología no es buena o mala, la tecnología es neutral. El problema es el mal uso que los humanos podemos hacer de ella”. Y sobre este concepto, y muchos otros, versa este episodio de Encuentros, que tiene llugar dentro del marco del Foro Telos ¿Hacia dónde nos lleva el progreso tecnológico? Para responder a esta cuestión, y muchas otras, dos protagonistas: Saskia Sassen, profesora de Sociología de la Cátedra Robert S. Lynd en la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York, galardonada con el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Ciencias Sociales en 2013; Carlo Ratti, Director del MIT Senseable CityLab en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, y experto en el uso de la tecnología para la mejora de las ciudades. La charla es moderada por el Director de la revista Telos Juan M. Zafra. Más información en https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/foro-telos-ciudades-inclusivas-ciudades-sostenibles/ Encuentros es un podcast producido por Cuonda y Fundación Telefónica, con música de DJ Moderno cedida bajo licencia CC y conducido por Luis Quevedo y Sergio F. Núñez. Si quieres conocer más sobre Fundación Telefónica y sus actividades, visita www.fundaciontelefonica.com y en sus redes sociales (@fundacionTef y @EspacioFTef).

“La tecnología no es buena o mala, la tecnología es neutral. El problema es el mal uso que los humanos podemos hacer de ella”. Y sobre este concepto, y muchos otros, versa este episodio de Encuentros, que tiene llugar dentro del marco del Foro Telos ¿Hacia dónde nos lleva el progreso tecnológico? Para responder a esta cuestión, y muchas otras, dos protagonistas: Saskia Sassen, profesora de Sociología de la Cátedra Robert S. Lynd en la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York, galardonada con el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Ciencias Sociales en 2013; Carlo Ratti, Director del MIT Senseable CityLab en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, y experto en el uso de la tecnología para la mejora de las ciudades. La charla es moderada por el Director de la revista Telos Juan M. Zafra. Más información en https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/foro-telos-ciudades-inclusivas-ciudades-sostenibles/ Encuentros es un podcast producido por Cuonda y Fundación Telefónica, con música de DJ Moderno cedida bajo licencia CC y conducido por Luis Quevedo y Sergio F. Núñez. Si quieres conocer más sobre Fundación Telefónica y sus actividades, visita www.fundaciontelefonica.com y en sus redes sociales (@fundacionTef y @EspacioFTef).

We sit down to talk about the recent history and far future of urban planning and design in China and worldwide with Sebastian Ibold, Project Director for the project Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport, GIZ. Sebastian has a rich past life as a consultant on urban planning issues and consulting in Asia, and his current work relates to rethinking urban mobility, shaping the city around an integration of the needs of users, technology, and sustainability.  At the end of the episode, we play a scenario analysis betting game based on a report, "The Politics and Practices of Low-Carbon Urban Mobility in China," from the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, and the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University. The report is available at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42416653.pdf.  The episode's title is from a poem by William Cowper: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/god-made-country. Sebastian references Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen. Her biography, bibliography, and various links can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Sassen.  

In this episode of City Road we talk to Saskia Sassen about her work on globalisation and the global city by tracing the key ideas in three of her books. We start with Saskia’s most famous book, The Global City, and the idea of intermediation in the global city. We move onto Saskia’s historical and, as Saskia suggests, her best book, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages to discuss the methodological tools of capacities, tipping points and organising logics. We end our discussion with Saskia’s latest book, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy and the ideas of expulsion and the systemic edge in the present. Guest Professor Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired till 2015. She is a student of cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work. Born in the Netherlands, she grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, was raised in five languages, and began her professional life in the United States. She is the author of eight books and the editor or co-editor of three books. Together, her authored books are translated in over twenty languages. She has received many awards and honors, among them multiple doctor honoris causa, the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences, election to the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, and made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.

Photo by Alex MacNaughton Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired from 2009 till 2015. She is a student of cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work. Born in the Netherlands, she grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, was raised in five languages, and began her professional life in the United States. She is the author of eight books and the editor or co-editor of three books. Together, her authored books are translated in over twenty languages. She has received many awards and honors, among them thirteen doctor honoris causa, over 25 named lectures, named one of the hundred women in science, the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences, election as a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, and made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government. In each of the four major completed projects that comprise her 30 years of research, Sassen starts with a thesis that posits the unexpected and the counterintuitive in order to cut through established “truths.” These projects engendered four major books and a new major project “An Ethics of the City.” There are also a few smaller books and about 40 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her first book was The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press 1988). Her thesis went against the established notion that foreign investment would prevent emigration from less developed countries. She posited and documented that foreign investment in less developed countries actually tends to raise the likelihood of emigration if that investment goes to labor-intensive sectors and/or devastates the traditional economy. In brief, her thesis went against established notions that such investment would retain potential emigrants. In The Global City  (Princeton University Press 1991; 2nd ed 2001) her thesis is that the global economy needs very specific territorial insertions, notably in cities. This went against the dominant notion that leading sectors could locate anywhere given digitization. Further, in a counter-intuitive move she posits that this need for well-defined urban insertions is at its sharpest with highly globalized and digitized sectors such as finance –precisely those sectors seen as not needing cities. This went against established notions at the time (the 1980s and 1990s) that the global economy transcended territory and its associated regulatory umbrellas, and that the most advanced sectors would leave cities. At its tightest, her proposition is that global cities are shaped/fed by the rise of intermediation functions at scales and in ways that go well beyond what we saw in earlier phases of capitalism. In Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006), her thesis is that today’s partial but foundational global transformations, from economic to cultural and subjective, actually take place largely inside thick national settings and institutions. But they do so in ways that denationalize the national. She conceptualizes denationalizing dynamics as operating in the shadows of the more familiar globalizing dynamics. This denationalizing of what was historically constructed as national is more significant than much of the self-evidently global. A guiding question running through this book is how complex systems change. One key finding is that in complex systems such change is not necessarily highly visible: it often consists of existing systemic capabilities shifting to a new set of organizing logics -- in ways that make those capabilities look as more of the same. Her most recent project is developed in two books: Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press/Belknap 2014)...

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of FreshEd. To celebrate, we are going to air our first ever FreshEd Live event where Saskia Sassen joined me for a conversation about her life and work. Saskia Sassen is a professor at Columbia University. In 1991, she published the now classic book called The Global City where she chronicled how New York, London, and Tokyo became the centers in the new digital economy. What she focused on was the rise of intermediary services that allowed corporations to operate globally. Instead of seeing place as no longer necessary in the digital economy, she saw certain cities as physical sites that became more important than ever in the global economy. For Sassen, intermediaries concentrated in certain parts of the city and relied on high-level knowledge, like algorithmic mathematics. In New York City, financial services took over lower Manhattan. This left a peculiar reality for the physical buildings in the city. As a result, many people who didn’t work in intermediary services were expelled from those parts of the city. And yet, despite this expulsion by intermediaries, new forms of inclusion were created. Today’s show was recorded at Musashi University during the Third Japanese Political Economy Workshop organized by Nobuharu Yokokawa. www.freshedpodcast.com/sassen twitter: @freshedpodcast email: info@freshedpodcast.com

We talk to Saskia Sassen about her work on globalisation and the global city by tracing the key ideas in three of her books. We start with Saskia's most famous book, 'The Global City', and the idea of intermediation in the global city. We move onto Saskia's historical and, as Saskia suggests, her best book, 'Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages' to discuss the methodological tools of capacities, tipping points and organising logics. We end our discussion with Saskia's latest book, 'Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy' and the ideas of expulsion and the systemic edge in the present. Guest Professor Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired till 2015. She is a student of cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work. Born in the Netherlands, she grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, was raised in five languages, and began her professional life in the United States. She is the author of eight books and the editor or co-editor of three books. Together, her authored books are translated in over twenty languages. She has received many awards and honors, among them multiple doctor honoris causa, the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences, election to the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, and made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.

Joice Berth, arquiteta e urbanista, é autora do livro “O que é Empoderamento” que acaba de ser lançado pela Editora Letramento sob o selo Feminismos Plurais coordenado pela filósofa Djamila Ribeiro. Nesta entrevista, Joice explica a teoria, o conceito e as práticas de Empoderamento, instrumento de luta de grupos historicamente oprimidos como as mulheres negras e indígenas, a população LGBTQ e outros. Referências: Filme Garota negra (La noire de...), direção Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1966. Filme A 13a Emenda, direção Ava DuVernay, EUA, 2016. Livro "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America", autor Richard Rothstein, EUA, 2017 Livro "Expulsões - brutalidade e complexidade na economia global, autora Saskia Sassen, editora Paz e Terra, 2016 Livro "Lugar de negro", autores Lélia Gonzalez e Carlos Hasenbalg, editora Marco Zero, 1982. Coleção Feminismos Plurais, editora Letramento.

"The stronger the light and the stronger explanation, the lesser you can see around it and whats happening."Sociology Professor Saskia Sassen of Colombia University talks about how complex systems transforms society radically, but rather invisible by shifting capacities over time. Saskia focus on finance, the underlying steam engine that defines our epoch. She claims that the ownership of the city got trapped in real estate deals and concentrated power and wealth, which led to symptoms such as the election of Donald Trump as president. Yet the city is a place where those without power can get to make history. Today digital is infrastructure, the question is how is it used and how it matters for equity, democracy, and rights? Saskia Sassen encourages people to find a simple DNA code that will enable to scale positive impact.

Your co-hosts chat about hyperloops, hydrarails and that time Newt Gingrich flirted with Cymene. Then (16:54) renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen joins us to share her thinking about our contemporary environmental predicament. We talk about finance as the steam engine of our era, the reasons for its recent rise, and whether Saskia feels that finance can contribute to reversing environmental degradation. We then turn to her most recent book Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard UP, 2014), in particular to her discussion of the impacts of mining, and explore her argument that we need new concepts to replace the American-centric categories of mid 20th century social science. Saskia shares her thoughts on the Anthropocene and the Chthulucene and why she is interested in the problem of the “systemic edge” where our categories of analysis cease to capture the intensity of contemporary social and environmental conditions. We turn from there to the current crises of liberalism, water, and immigration and Saskia explains why she thinks that political classes across the world seem so checked out now. She details the unremarkable instruments that have scaled to produce planet-wide environmental destruction and asks whether it's possible to imagine equally simple instruments for doing good in the world, perhaps by thinking and acting more like the biosphere itself. Finally we return to one of Saskia's favorite topics—cities—and how urban space contains our future frontiers of politics and life. What are the ethics of the city? What's it like to walk the city with Saskia Sassen? Listen on and find out!

Philip Dodd is joined by art historian Devika Singh to consider the art of Bhupen Khakhar and the subjects he explored including class difference; desire and homosexuality; and his personal battle with cancer.Also, Saskia Sassen, Jane Morris, David Anderson and Pat Kane discuss the emergence of London as a global city and what the economic and cultural ramifications might be for the rest of the UK.Bhupen Khakhar is on show at Tate Modern from June 1st to September 6th.Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Think you can tell the difference between a city and a business park? It may not be so clear. A corporate buying boom since the financial crash is gobbling up city property and leaving us with places that are literally not our town. Purchasing took off after 2008, when foreclosure rates were high, bank loans were drying up, and record levels of commercial properties were standing vacant. Last year, major acquisitions by corporations topped a $1 trillion in 100 large cities and by major we do mean major – in New York, that's only counting property-buys of worth $5m or more. The great corporate buy-up is leaving us with more mega projects, more private space, and more people, but less of everything else, most notably, less of everything public, from parks and plazas to elected governance and with all that private space, comes more private police. The reliance on armed private contractors outside of the public command, is not longer only a phenomenon for our Embassies in Kabul and Baghdad. It's increasingly the norm at home. Angry about police violence? Pushing for more effective community oversight? We may get more and more of that, and less and less police. There are other outcomes too: all that concentration of wealth's matched by a concentration of poverty. Last year, the Century Foundation Reported that since 2000 the number of people living in high-poverty slums had nearly doubled. The world's great cities have been places where the poor can make an impact – on the city's commerce, cuisine, its culture. The poor can't do that in a business park. As sociologist Saskia Sassen put it recently, the corporate city's a place where “low-wage workers can work, but not “make”. There are alternative models of development, but first we have to get to know our cities better. Just who owns what? And who's getting tax breaks? Is the great corporate buy-up really what we want? You can watch my interview with, Aaron Bartley and John Washington of Buffalo Push, about their successful fight for sustainable housing in Buffalo New York this week on The Laura Flanders Show on KCET/LINKtv and TeleSUR and find all my interviews and reports at LauraFlanders.com. To tell me what you think, write to Laura@LauraFlanders.com.

GLOBALE: Tribunal – A Trial Against the Transgressions of the 20th Century | Symposium Fri, June 19 - Sun, June 21, 2015 The GLOBALE begins with a tribunal at which the 20th century will be tried for its transgressions and crimes against humanity, animals, and nature. Indictments will be sought for genocide such as the Holocaust, the exploitation of the Earth, and the extermination of the animal world by humans. With a conference, a panorama-screen installation, and a film program, the tribunal will present a critical review of the 20th century, a “century of extremes” (Eric Hobsbawm, 1994) and declining inhibition. The three-day event takes its cue from Franz Kafka’s novel »The Trial« (1914/1915) and prominent trials of the 20th century. The historical trials that serve as a model for this tribunal are the dadaist trial against Maurice Barrès (1921), the Nuremberg Trials, and the Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal. As the first international tribunals prosecuting war crimes, the Nuremberg Trials are exemplary of legal proceedings to ascertain individual guilt in crimes against humanity. The Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal, also known as the Russell Tribunal, was initiated by Lord Bertrand Russell in 1966, as a private body for investigating and evaluating American war crimes in Vietnam. It later served as the model for investigating violations of international law; for example, for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal. Our tribunal also reminds us of the legal importance of Karlsruhe – the seat of both the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Attorney General of Germany. The presentations will deal with the history of violence and genocide, expulsion and persecution in the 20th century. The speakers are distinguished scholars and artists exploring these themes from historical, legal, philosophical, and artistic perspectives, who will present their latest research findings. Conference languages are English and German. /// Die GLOBALE beginnt mit einem Prolog am 19. Juni 2015 im ZKM: mit einem Prozess gegen die Verfehlungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und seine Verbrechen gegen Mensch, Tier und Natur. Angeklagt werden Völkermorde wie der Holocaust, die Ausbeutung der Erde und die Ausrottung der Tierwelt durch den Menschen. In Form einer Konferenz, einer Panorama-Screen-Installation und eines Filmprogramms liefert das Tribunal eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Tribunal findet im ZKM an einem geschichtlich belasteten Ort statt. 1915, vor genau 100 Jahren, war Baubeginn des sog. Hallenbaus als architektonisch avancierte Waffen- und Munitionsfabrik. Während des Dritten Reiches mussten Tausende von Zwangsarbeitern hier unmenschlichen Dienst tun. Insofern ist der Hallenbau auch ein Mahnmal der im Tribunal verhandelten Verbrechen. Die dreitägige Veranstaltung wird vom ZKM in Auseinandersetzung mit dem Roman »Der Prozess« (1914/1915) von Franz Kafka sowie historischen Prozessen wie etwa André Bretons dadaistischem Schauprozess gegen Maurice Barrès (1921), den Nürnberger Prozessen oder dem »Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal« inszeniert. Die Nürnberger Prozesse stehen als erster internationaler Prozess gegen die Kriegsverbrechen beispielhaft für die juristische Verhandlung der individuellen Schuld an Vergehen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Das »Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal«, auch unter dem Namen »Russell-Tribunal« bekannt, wurde 1966 von dem Mathematiker, Philosophen und Literaturnobelpreisträger Lord Bertrand Russel als private Nichtregierungsorganisation ins Leben gerufen, um die US-amerikanischen Kriegsverbrechen im Vietnamkrieg zu untersuchen. Später diente es als Modell für die Untersuchung von Völkerrechtsverletzungen, z. B. das UN-Kriegsverbrechertribunal. Das Tribunal erinnert auch an die Bedeutung Karlsruhes als »Residenzstadt des Rechts«, in der sowohl das Bundesverfassungsgericht, der Bundesgerichtshof als auch die Bundesanwaltschaft ihren Sitz haben.

This week we read Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, an exploration of the underlying systems of logic that drive displacement, resource extraction and, ultimately, inequality. Sassen discusses the financial tools, strategies and “instruments” by which corporations and nations amass land, wealth and resources, from the securitizing of subprime mortgages leading […]

Saskia Sassen, "Espulsioni"; Eskol Nevo, "Soli e perduti"; Vladimiro Giacché; "Costituzione italiana contro trattati europei"

Saskia Sassen, "Espulsioni"; Eskol Nevo, "Soli e perduti"; Vladimiro Giacché; "Costituzione italiana contro trattati europei"

Keynote presentation by Saskia Sassen - Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Colombia University as part of the conference: Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. In large cities around the world, the most contested public space is the streets and accompanying sidewalks. As a result of historic migration and immigration to urban centers, the spatial projects vying for this space have multiplied. In particular, the growth of street vending causes us to reconsider some of the fundamental concepts that we have used to understand the city. Vending can be seen as a private taking of public space. It can contribute to civic vitality as well as be an impediment to traffic flow. Vendors are often micro-entrepreneurs who cannot access the private real estate market as spaces for livelihood. The issues about the legitimate use of public space, the right to the city, and local ordinance enforcement/dereliction are often complicated by class conflict as well as the street vendors’ diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and their migrant/immigrant status. As a result, recent street vendors’ challenges and protests have been important catalysts with far-reaching political implications about the future of our urban societies. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners in dynamic dialogue to present empirical cases (both contemporary and historical) and larger global trends. While vending and public space has been the subject of acrimonious debate in many cities between vendors, local government, formal business and property owners, community organizations, pedestrians and alternative mobility groups, it has also been the impetus for some innovative mixed-use and inclusive arrangements for sharing urban space. Since in our largest, densest cities, local governments, urban planners, and citizens will have to find new ways to plan, design, and govern this precious urban public space, this symposium particularly seeks to shed light on possible futures and the key narratives that will need to be re-written. Towards this end, this symposium extends the first Contesting the Street conference that was held at UCLA in 2010, by expanding the geographic focus of the inquiry beyond (while still including) the Americas to gain comparative insights. Main Presentation: Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Colombia University. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. Symposium Organizers: Annette M. Kim, Associate Professor at the Price School of Public Policy and Director of SLAB, Price School of Public Policy, USC Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair of the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair Professor and the Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School of Public Policy, USC.

“Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities” - a conference sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. In large cities around the world, the most contested public space is the streets and accompanying sidewalks. As a result of historic migration and immigration to urban centers, the spatial projects vying for this space have multiplied. In particular, the growth of street vending causes us to reconsider some of the fundamental concepts that we have used to understand the city. Vending can be seen as a private taking of public space. It can contribute to civic vitality as well as be an impediment to traffic flow. Vendors are often micro-entrepreneurs who cannot access the private real estate market as spaces for livelihood. The issues about the legitimate use of public space, the right to the city, and local ordinance enforcement/dereliction are often complicated by class conflict as well as the street vendors’ diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and their migrant/immigrant status. As a result, recent street vendors’ challenges and protests have been important catalysts with far-reaching political implications about the future of our urban societies. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners in dynamic dialogue to present empirical cases (both contemporary and historical) and larger global trends. While vending and public space has been the subject of acrimonious debate in many cities between vendors, local government, formal business and property owners, community organizations, pedestrians and alternative mobility groups, it has also been the impetus for some innovative mixed-use and inclusive arrangements for sharing urban space. Since in our largest, densest cities, local governments, urban planners, and citizens will have to find new ways to plan, design, and govern this precious urban public space, this symposium particularly seeks to shed light on possible futures and the key narratives that will need to be re-written. Towards this end, this symposium extends the first Contesting the Street conference that was held at UCLA in 2010, by expanding the geographic focus of the inquiry beyond (while still including) the Americas to gain comparative insights. Panelists: Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, and inaugural Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Margaret Crawford is a Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Colombia University. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. Symposium Organizers: Annette M. Kim, Associate Professor at the Price School of Public Policy and Director of SLAB, Price School of Public Policy, USC Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair of the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair Professor and the Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School of Public Policy, USC.

The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann recorded hours of interview about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his capture in 1960 by Israeli agents. Witness talks to the daughter of the Dutch journalist, Willem Sassen, who recorded the Eichmann interviews in Argentina. Saskia Sassen talks about the tapes, her memories of their secret visitor and the night the Israelis snatched Eichmann off the streets of Buenos Aires. (Photo: Adolf Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial in 1961 in Jerusalem. Credit: Central Press/Getty Images)

The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann recorded hours of interview about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his capture in 1960 by Israeli agents. Witness talks to the daughter of the Dutch journalist, Willem Sassen, who recorded the Eichmann interviews in Argentina. Saskia Sassen talks about the tapes, her memories of their secret visitor and the night the Israelis snatched Eichmann off the streets of Buenos Aires. (Photo: Adolf Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial in 1961 in Jerusalem. Credit: Central Press/Getty Images)

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016. The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U and also includes the Q&A discussion at the end.

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016. The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk).

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016. The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U and also includes the Q&A discussion at the end.

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016. The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U and also includes the Q&A discussion at the end.

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016. The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U and also includes the Q&A discussion at the end.

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016. The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk).

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk).

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology). After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities. Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, ah447@cam.ac.uk, via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, da40@soas.ac.uk).

As part of a series of events examining the key ideas that have shaped the human race, sociologist Saskia Sassen, research director in international economics at Chatham House Paola Subacchi and professor of political economy Robert Skidelsky joined James Anderson, manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, to explore the profound and far-reaching effects of capitalism on humanity. Recorded live at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Turning Points for Civilisation As part of a series of events selected by Richard Sennett exploring key ideas that have shaped humanity, this session discusses the idea and profound impact of capitalism. New York University sociologist Saskia Sassen and Paola Subacchi, research director in international economics at Chatham House, are joined by professor of political economy at Warwick University, Robert Skidelsky, in an event chaired by the manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, James Anderson. Part of our Guest Selector: Richard Sennett series of events.

European Lab Forum 2014 Europe Culture Refresh! 27-30 May 2014 Wednesday, May 28 - Meeting with Saskia Sassen Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Colum- bia University and Co-Chairs The Committee on Global Thought. She is an internationally known for her analyses in fields such as the social, eco- nomic and political dimensions of globalization and urban sociology. One of her greatest scientific contributions was the concept of 'Global City' de- veloped in her book named as such. Saskia Sassen is also an active member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has received diverse awards and was being chosen as one of the Top 100 Global Leaders by the Foreign Policy magazine.

Here's an idea: social scientists should reflect critically on the prevailing concepts and categories before launching into empirical work with an existing framework. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist Saskia Sassen discusses that concept, called 'before method,' with Nigel Warburton. Social Science Bites is made in association with SAGE. A transcript of this and other episodes is available from Social Science Space

Anne McElvoy talks to the social theorist Jeremy Rifkin who foresees the gradual decline of capitalism and the rise of a collaborative economy. As new technology enables greater sharing of goods and services, Rifkin argues that it provides a challenge to the market economy. The sociologist Saskia Sassen warns that the majority of people may not enjoy the fruits of this new world as increasing inequality, land evictions and complex financial systems lead to their expulsion from the economy. The Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng looks back at the history of international finance and how gold and war have shaped the economic order of today. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. In this, the first lecture in the two-part Storrs Lecture series of 2012, Professor Sassen discusses “The Making of New Bordering Capabilities.” This lecture was delivered on January 30, 2012 at Yale Law School.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. In this, the second lecture in the two-part Storrs Lecture series of 2012, Professor Sassen discusses “Ungoverned Territories or New Types of Rights and Authority?” This lecture was delivered on January 31, 2012 at Yale Law School.

Columbia University professor Saskia Sassen talks about new barriers between citizen government and private entities.

Ecogram IV: China is curated by Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Parsons The New School for Design and Jeffrey Johnson, GSAPP, in collaboration with Saskia Sassen, Committee on Global Thought and Sociology. It is co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought.

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011, 7:30 pm 501 Schermerhorn 1190 Amsterdam Ave Participants include Saskia Sassen (Sociology), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science), Stathis Gourgouris (ICLS), and Suresh Naidu (Economics and SIPA).

When do cities recover from disaster? Conference: Injured Cities/Urban Afterlives 10.14.11 - 10.15.11 9:00AM - 6:00PM FRIDAY EVENTS IN MILLER THEATRESATURDAY EVENTS IN WOOD AUDITORIUM, AVERY HALL Gerry Albarelli, Ariella Azoulay, Carol Becker, Nina Bernstein, Hazel Carby, Mary Marshall Clark, Teddy Cruz, Roberta Galler, Saidiya Hartman, Dinh Le, Ann Jones, Anne McClintock, Rosalind Morris, Shirin Neshat, Walid Ra'ad, Somi Roy, Saskia Sassen, Diana Taylor, Karen Till, Clive van den Berg, Eyal Weizman, and Mabel Wilson #wood101511

When do cities recover from disaster? Conference: Injured Cities/Urban Afterlives 10.14.11 - 10.15.11 9:00AM - 6:00PM FRIDAY EVENTS IN MILLER THEATRESATURDAY EVENTS IN WOOD AUDITORIUM, AVERY HALL Gerry Albarelli, Ariella Azoulay, Carol Becker, Nina Bernstein, Hazel Carby, Mary Marshall Clark, Teddy Cruz, Roberta Galler, Saidiya Hartman, Dinh Le, Ann Jones, Anne McClintock, Rosalind Morris, Shirin Neshat, Walid Ra'ad, Somi Roy, Saskia Sassen, Diana Taylor, Karen Till, Clive van den Berg, Eyal Weizman, and Mabel Wilson #wood101511

When do cities recover from disaster? Conference: Injured Cities/Urban Afterlives 10.14.11 - 10.15.11 9:00AM - 6:00PM FRIDAY EVENTS IN MILLER THEATRESATURDAY EVENTS IN WOOD AUDITORIUM, AVERY HALL Gerry Albarelli, Ariella Azoulay, Carol Becker, Nina Bernstein, Hazel Carby, Mary Marshall Clark, Teddy Cruz, Roberta Galler, Saidiya Hartman, Dinh Le, Ann Jones, Anne McClintock, Rosalind Morris, Shirin Neshat, Walid Ra'ad, Somi Roy, Saskia Sassen, Diana Taylor, Karen Till, Clive van den Berg, Eyal Weizman, and Mabel Wilson #wood101511

Studio Banana TV interviews Saskia Sassen, acclaimed Dutch sociologist and author of the notorious book "The Global City" and well noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration.She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city.

A lecture by Bart Lootsma at the Future of Urbanism conference, which took place the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Ann Arbor on March 19 and 20, 2010. The complete lectures of the conference, with speakers like ao. Christina Boyer, Benjamin Bratton, Marshall Brown, Teddy Cruz, Bryan Finoki, Saskia Sassen and Edward Soja can be found on Taubman College's Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/umtaubmancollege

A lecture by Bart Lootsma at the Future of Urbanism conference, which took place the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Ann Arbor on March 19 and 20, 2010. The complete lectures of the conference, with speakers like ao. Christina Boyer, Benjamin Bratton, Marshall Brown, Teddy Cruz, Bryan Finoki, Saskia Sassen and Edward Soja can be found on Taubman College's Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/umtaubmancollege

On 25/11/09 Counterpoint hosted the book launch event for Radical Politics Today. Chaired by Jonathan Pugh. On the panel were Doreen Massey, David Chandler and Saskia Sassen.

Columbia University professor of Sociology, Saskia Sassen, delivers her 2003 lecture on the concept of citizenship in the age of globalization.

Columbia University professor of Sociology, Saskia Sassen, delivers her 2003 lecture on the concept of citizenship in the age of globalization.

Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights

Lecture by the American scientist Saskia Sassen about globalization. Mrs. Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and visiting Professor of Urban Political Economy at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Saskia Sassen is one of the world's leading authorities on globalization. Friday the 20th of April 2007 Saskia Sassen gave the Eighteenth Globalization Lecture in Amsterdam. Her most recent book is titled: Territory, Authority, Rights, from Medieval to Gloabal Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006)

A talk by Saskia Sassen, Professor, Department of Sociology, U. of Chicago. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign RelationsFrom the World Beyond the Headlines Series.

A talk by Saskia Sassen, Professor, Department of Sociology, U. of Chicago. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign RelationsFrom the World Beyond the Headlines Series.