Z Needs Your Help!
Doing away with some of the bad numbers
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/). Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on 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 (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, Huffington.com, among others.
The big story buried in all the commentary about the US government's drone policy is that the old algorithm of the liberal…
Where change is perceptible, rapid change makes change itself even more visible. Velocity becomes a concrete condition, not just a measure of…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] This is an account that begins with the current condition – a…
(1 April 2009) — The misnamed "Group of Twenty" (G20) meets in London on 2 April 2009 to discuss how to save the…
Warlords. They have a bad name but not all they do is bad. Their basic premise is that a good gun is…