Saskia Sassen
Since coining the term 'the global city' in her 1992 book of the same name, Saskia Sassen has become a celebrated scholar of globalised cities and network technologies.
At Columbia University she is Professor of Sociology and sits on Colombia's Committee on Global Thought. She is also Centennial Visiting Professor at London School of Economics and has just completed a five-year UNESCO project for the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, developing a network of research in sustainable human settlement development from more than 30 countries.
Her new books are “Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages” (Princeton 2008) and A” Sociology of Globalization” (W.W.Norton 2007). Other recent books are the 3rd. fully updated “Cities in a World Economy” (Sage 2006), the edited “Deciphering the Global” (Routledge 2007), and the co-edited “Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order” (Princeton 2005). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the “Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems” (Oxford).
Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and chaired the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA).
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