Selected Articles & Book Chapters

2017

"Scale and Span in a Global Digital World." In Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000, eds. Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy Rowe. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2006.

"A Global City", in A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, eds. David Nugent and Joan Vincent. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2006.

"The Embeddedness of Electronic Markets: The case of global capital markets". In The Sociology of Financial Markets, eds. Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006.

"Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the Study of Globalization." In Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena, ed. Max Kirsch. New York: Routledge. 2006.

2005

"The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics." Globalizations, vol. 2(1): 79-94.

"Regulating Immigration in a Global Age: A New Policy Landscape." Parallax, vol.11(1): 35-45.

"When National Territory is Home to the Global: Old Borders to Novel Borderings." New Political Economy, vol. 10(4).

"Digging the penumbra of master categories." British Journal of Sociology, vol. 56(3).

"The Global City: Introducing a Concept." Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 11(2): 27-43.

"The Ecology of Global Economic Power: Changing Investment Practices to Promote Environmental Sustainability." Journal of Foreign Affairs, Spring 2005, Vol. 58(2).

[with Tim May, Beth Perry, Patrick Le Gales, and Mike Savage] "The Future of Urban Sociology." Sociology: the Journal of the British Sociological Association, Vol.39(2).

"The City: Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory", pp. 457-470 in The Sage Handbook of Sociology Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner (eds.), Sage: 2005.

"The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier", in Managing Urban Frontiers: Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries, eds. Marco Kainer, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, and Willy A. Schmind. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2005.

"Reading the City in a Global Digital Age," in Future City, eds. Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann and Job van Eldijk. London: Spon Press. 2005

2004

"Local Actors in Global Politics." Current Sociology, Vol. 52(4)

"Going Beyond the National State in the USA: The Politics of Minoritized Groups in Global Cities." Diogenes, vol.51(3).

"Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations." 2004. Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order. Eds. Robert Lantham and Saskia Sassen. Princeton University Press.

"The City: Localizations of the Global", in Perspecta 36: "Juxtapositions": The Yale School of Architecture Journal, eds. Macky McCleary and Jennifer Silbert. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. February 2004.

"Globalization After September 11" in The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism, eds. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2004.

"Beyond Sovereignty: de facto transnationalism in immigration policy", in Worlds on the Move: Globalisation, Migration and Cultural Security, eds. Jonathan Friedman and Shalini Randeria. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 2004.

"De-nationalized state agendas and privatized norm-making", in Public Governance in the Age of Globalization, ed. Karl-Heinz Ladeur. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004

"The formation of intercity geographies of centrality", in Shanghai: Architecture & Urbanism for Modern China, eds. Peter G. Rowe and Seng Kuan. Munich: Prestel. 2004.

"Global Cities and Survival Circuits", in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, eds. Barabara Ehrenreich and Russell Hochschild. New York: Holt Paperbacks. 2004.

"A Global City", in Global Chicago, ed. Charles Madigan. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2004.

"The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets", in Markets in Historical Context: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World, eds. Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2004.

"Sited Materials with a Global Span", in Society Online: The Internet in Context, eds. Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2004.

2003

"The new lords of Africa", Peacework pg. 20, September 2003

"The Participation of States and Citizens in Global Governance." Symposium - Globalization and Governance: The Prospects for Democracy. Indiana Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 10, no. 5, iss.1

"Globalization or Denationalization". Review of International Political Economy 10(1) Feb.: 1-22

"The State and Globalization". Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 5(2): 241-248.

"The Repositioning of Citizenship", Project Muse, 2003.

"Towards post-national and denationalized citizenship", in Handbook of Citizenship Studies, eds. Engin F. Isin and Bryan S. Turner. New York: Sage. 2003.

"Reading the City in a Global Digital Age: Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects", in Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age, eds. Linda Krause and Patrice Petro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2003.

"Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy", in Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, ed. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2003.

2002

"Towards a Sociology of Information Technology". Current Sociology, vol. 50(3): 365-388.

"Locating Cities on Global Circuits". Environment & Urbanization, vol.14(1)

"Governance Hotspots: Challenges We Must Confront in the Post-September 11 World". Theory, Culture & Society, vol.19(4): 233-244.

"Global Cities and Diasporic Networks: Microsites in Global Civil Society". Global Civil Society 2002. Edited by Helmut Anheier et. al. Oxford University Press.

"Deconstructing Labor Demand in Today's Advanced Economies: Implications for Low-Wage Employment", in Laboring Below the Line: Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy, ed. Frank Munger. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2002.

"Counter-geographies of globalization: Feminisation of survival", in Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation, ed. Kriemild Saunders. London: Zed Books. 2002.

"Globalization and the formation of claims", in Globalization at the Margins, eds. Richard Grant and John R. Short. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002.

"Governance Hotspots: Challenges we must confront in the post-September 11 world", in Understanding September 11, ed. Craig Calhoun. New York: New Press. 2002.

"Mediating Practices: Women with/in Cyberspace", in Living with Cyberspace: Technology and Society in the 21^st Century, eds. John Armitage and Joanne Roberts. New York: Continuum. 2002.

"A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors", in Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2002.

2001

"The City: Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects." Art Journal, vol. 60(2): 12-20.

"Global Cities and Developmentalist States: How to Derail What Could Be an Interesting Debate: A Response to Hill and Kim." Urban Studies, Vol.38(13): 2537-2540.

"Impacts of Information Technologies on Urban Economies and Politics." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.25(2).

"Cities in the Global Economy", in Handbook of Urban Studies, ed. Ronan Paddison. New York: Sage. 2001.

2000

"Digital Networks and the State: Some Governance Questions." Theory, Culture & Society, vol.17(4): 19-33.

"Women's Burden: Counter-Geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival." Journal of International Affairs, vol.53(2), Spring 2000.

"Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy." International Sociology, vol.15(2): 372-393.

"Regulating Immigration in a Global Age: A New Policy Landscape". The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol.570, July 2000.

"Excavating Power: In Search of Frontier Zones and New Actors". Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 17(1): 163-170.

"New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium". British Journal of Sociology, vol. 51(1):143-159.

"The State and Economic Globalization: Any Implications for International Law" Chicago Journal of International Law, Spring 2000, vol. 1(1).

"The Demise of Pax Americana and the emergence of informalization as a systematic trend", in Informalization: Process and Structure, eds. Faruk Tabak and Michaeline A. Crichlow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000.

SASKIA SASSEN

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

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