Saskia Sassen und Richard Sennett

Saskia Sassen, geboren 1949 in Den Haag (NL), lehrt Soziologie an der Columbia University und der London School of Economics. Sie ist bekannt für ihre Analysen zu Globalisierung und internationaler Migration und prägte den Begriff Global City. Neues Buch: Das Paradox des Nationalen, erscheint  21. April 2008.

Richard Sennett, geboren 1943 in Chicago (US), lehrt Soziologie und Geschichte an der New York University und der London School of Economics. Er zählt zu den bekanntesten Theoretikern unserer Zeit und hat eine Reihe kulturhistorischer Bücher verfasst. Neues Buch: Handwerk (The Craftsman), Berlin Verlag 2008

Welche menschlichen Folgen hat die politische Ökonomie, in der wir leben? Laut Richard Sennett zeigen sich die psychologischen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Kapitalismus darin, wie Institutionen organisiert sind und wie die Menschen in ihnen leben. Neuer Kapitalismus betrifft ein soziologisches Ganzes und nicht bloß Wirtschaft und Technologie.

Bücher von Richard Sennett:

• HandWerk, Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2008
• Die Kultur des neuen Kapitalismus, Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2005
• Respekt im Zeitalter der Ungleichheit, Berlin: Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag 2004,
• Der flexible Mensch. Die Kultur des neuen Kapitalismus,Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 1998,
• Fleisch und Stein, Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 1995
• Civitas, Die Großstadt und die Kultur des Unterschieds, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1994
• Die Tyrannei der Intimität. Eine Studie über den Verfall von Öffentlichkeit, 1991
• Autorität, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1990
• Verfall und Ende des öffentlichen Lebens. Die Tyrannei der Intimität, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1986,

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ad Saskia Sasse:

Saskia Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through established “truths.” Her three major books have each sought to demolish a key established “truth.” Thus in her first book, The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press 1988), she showed how foreign investment in less developed countries can actually raise the likelihood of emigration; this went against established notions that such investment would retain potential emigrants.

In her second book The Global City (Princeton University Press 1991; 2^nd ed 2002) she showed how the global economy far from being placeless, has and needs very specific territorial insertions, and that this need is sharpest in the case of highly globalized and electronic sectors such as finance; this went against established notions at the time that the global economy transcended territory and its associated regulatory umbrellas. In her most recent book, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006), she shows that the foundational transformations afoot today take place largely inside core and thick national environments; this allows her to explain that some of the changes inside liberal states, most evident in the USA but also increasingly in other countries, are not distortions or anomalies, but are the result of these foundational transformations inside the state apparatus. She shows how this foundational transformation hence consists not only of globalizing dynamics but also of denationalizing dynamics: we are seeing the formation of multiple often highly specialized assemblages of bits of territory, authority and rights that were once ensconced in national framings. Today these assemblages traverse global and national settings, thereby denationalizing what was historically constructed as national.

Representative publications:

2006.Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages.Princeton: Princeton University Press

2006. Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects. Routledge.

2006. Cities in a world economy .Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, updated 3rd ed., original 1994

2005. (with Latham) Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

2001. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton: Princeton University Press updated 2d ed., original 1991