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The Global City

Saskia Sassen
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The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6018 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global city & Economic globalization.

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The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field

TL;DR: Transnationalism as mentioned in this paper defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field.
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New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy

TL;DR: This paper used several events in New York in the late 1990s to launch two central arguments about the changing relationship between neoliberal urbanism and so-called globalization: the state becomes a consummate agent of the market, and the new revanchist urbanism that replaces liberal urban policy in cities of the advanced capitalist world increasingly expresses the impulses of capitalist production rather than social reproduction.
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A Space for Place in Sociology

TL;DR: Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same time there are far too many of them to fit in this review as discussed by the authors, and it may be a good thing that this research is seldom gathered up as a socology of place, for that could ghettoize the subject as something of interest only to geographers, architects, or environmental historians.
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Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two principles that are key to state spatialization: vertically (thestate is "above" society) and encompassm ent (state "encompasses" its localities).
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The financialization of the American economy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period and develop two discrete measures of financialization and apply these measures to postwar US economic data in order to determine if, and to what extent, US economy is becoming financialized.