萨斯基亚·萨森

作品

• 1991全球城市

  纽约、伦敦、东京：全球化把指挥职能和商业服务集中在少数城市——并随之带来高收入与低收入之间新的两极分化。

立场

Sassen’s work shows how globalisation is anchored in particular places and institutions. Her early study The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988) argued that foreign investment in poorer countries could itself set migration towards the rich ones in motion. The Global City (1991) argued that the more economic activity is dispersed around the world, the more its control is concentrated in a few cities – above all New York, London and Tokyo – where finance and specialised services such as law, accounting and consulting cluster. These global cities form a network more closely tied to one another than to their national hinterlands, and they are deeply polarised: high-earning professionals depend on a large, often immigrant, low-wage workforce of cleaners, cooks and carers. In Territory, Authority, Rights (2006) she rejected the idea that globalisation simply weakens the nation-state; much of it happens inside the state, as parts of national law, central banks and executives are “denationalised” and reoriented towards global markets. Expulsions (2014) describes a new logic in the global economy that expels people from jobs, homes and land, and ecosystems from life itself – a brutality produced by highly complex systems.

生平与背景

Saskia Sassen was born in 1947 in The Hague and grew up from 1948 in Buenos Aires, with periods in Italy; she has said she was brought up in five languages. After studies in France, Italy and Argentina she went to the University of Notre Dame in the United States, where she took her doctorate in sociology in 1974. After teaching in New York she held the Ralph Lewis chair of sociology at the University of Chicago and then became Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University; she has also long held a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics. In 2013 she received the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. She is married to the sociologist Richard Sennett.

其他主要作品

• The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988)
• The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991)
• Losing Control? (1996)
• Guests and Aliens (1999; German original 1996)
• Territory, Authority, Rights (2006)
• Expulsions (2014)

出现在

• 争论 ‘开放边界还是封闭边界？移民伦理’