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SUMMARY:Saskia Sassen (Columbia): 'Emergent Logics of Expulsion: Beyond So
 cial Exclusion' - Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology\, C
 olumbia)
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DESCRIPTION:The 'national' and the 'global' are powerful categories that h
 ide as much as they reveal about our current epoch. I will argue that they
  are too powerful and that we need to elaborate analytic tactic that allow
  us to see what they obscure. Using complex conditions that might be prese
 nt both in national and in global institutional settings is one step in th
 is effort. Territory\, authority\, rights are here that I have found usefu
 l in this effort. They are complex\, and they are made through struggles a
 nd conflicts. They exist in all complex forms of organization (tribal soci
 eties\, kingdoms\, empires\, republics). They take on specific formats and
  interdependencies in each\, including the nation-state. And they are beco
 ming unstable in the case of the nation-state. \n\nSaskia Sassen is the Ro
 bert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Globa
 l Thought\, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her recent books a
 re Territory\, Authority\, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( P
 rinceton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Nort
 on 2007). She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Framew
 orks (Under contract with Harvard University Press). Forthcoming is the 4t
 h fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). Recent e
 dited books are Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces\, Scales and Subjects (
 Routledge 2007)\, and Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Ord
 er (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City came out in a new fu
 lly updated edition in 2001.For UNESCO she organized a five-year project o
 n sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists
  in over 30 countries\; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyc
 lopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford\, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://ww
 w.eolss.net ]. The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 
 2001.  Her books are translated into twenty-one languages. She has receive
 d several honors and awards\, most recently a doctor honoris causa from ea
 ch Delft University (Netherlands)\, DePaul University (USA)\, and Universi
 te de Poitiers (France). 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 Coopera
 tion Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). She has writt
 en for The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Le Monde\, Newsweek Internation
 al\, among others\, and contributes regularly to www.OpenDemocracy.net and
  www.HuffingtonPost.com.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, Room 9
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