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73
Citations
45946
World Ranking
611
National Ranking
289

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2004 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Saskia Sassen is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their academic work spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on economics, sociopolitics, and globalization. The main topics addressed in their research include Economic Theory and Policy, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, and Political Economy and Marxism.

Their recent publications include a range of papers exploring themes of migration, gender, urban digitization, and global economic structures. Notable works include:

  • Un nuevo tipo de migrante: ¿escapando del "desarrollo"? (2020, Forum Revista Departamento Ciencia Política)
  • Strategic Gendering as Capability: One Lens into the Complexity of Powerlessness (2025, Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University))
  • Urban digitization and financial capitalism (2021, TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis)
  • How to theorize globalization: a comment (2021, Globalizations)
  • Expanding the Analytical Domain: American Democracy and Its Predatory Economies (2021, Amerikastudien/American Studies)

Sassen's work is published frequently in venues such as New Global Studies, Forum Revista Departamento Ciencia Política, Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University), TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, and Globalizations.

Collaborations form an important part of their research, with frequent coauthors including Mary Kaldor, Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda, Kenneth Weisbrode, and Natalia Ribas Mateos. These collaborations reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their inquiry into global social, economic, and political dynamics.

Their research contributions have been recognized by a membership in the Academia Europaea since 2004, marking engagement with a broader European academic community.

Sassen's work sits at the intersection of General Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Sociology and Political Science, addressing complex questions related to power, inequality, and capitalist dynamics in the contemporary world.

Best Publications

  • The Global City

    Saskia Sassen

  • The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo

    Saskia Sassen

  • Cities in a world economy

    Saskia Sassen

  • Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization

    Saskia Sassen

  • Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

    Saskia Sassen

  • The mobility of labor and capital : a study in international investment and labor flow

    Saskia Sassen

  • Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money.

    Robert Schaeffer;Saskia Sassen

  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    Saskia Sassen

  • Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

    Saskia Sassen

  • Contrageografías de la globalización: género y ciudadanía en los circuitos transfronterizos

    Saskia Sassen

  • Global Networks: Linked Cities

    Saskia Sassen

  • A Sociology of Globalization

    Saskia Sassen

  • Guests and Aliens

    Saskia Sassen

  • Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization

    Saskia Sassen

  • The global city: introducing a concept

    Saskia Sassen

  • Women's Burden: Counter-Geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival(1)

    Saskia Sassen

  • The mobility of labor and capital

    Saskia Sassen

  • Towards a Sociology of Information Technology

    Saskia Sassen

  • Territory, Authority, Rights

    Saskia Sassen

  • Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims

    Saskia Sassen

  • Globalization or denationalization

    Saskia Sassen

  • A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions of Primitive Accumulation

    Saskia Sassen

  • Locating cities on global circuits

    Saskia Sassen

  • Global Cities and Survival Circuits

    Saskia Sassen

  • Towards Post-National and Denationalized Citizenship

    Saskia Sassen

  • The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier

    Saskia Sassen

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline Moser
Caroline Moser University of Manchester
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester
Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley
Barbara F. Reskin
Barbara F. Reskin Harvard University
John Scott
John Scott Queensland University of Technology
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun Arizona State University
Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science

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