ABSTRACT
Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|98 pages
Scalings: Global Microspaces
chapter Chapter 2|18 pages
Translocal Civilities
Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts
chapter Chapter 3|19 pages
Reimagining Old Havana
World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
Becoming Global?
Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society
chapter Chapter 5|20 pages
Deciphering the Local in a Global Neoliberal Age
Three Favelas in São Paulo, Brazil
part 2|102 pages
Translocal Circuits and Their Mobilities
chapter Chapter 6|20 pages
Locating Transnational Activists
The United States Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Confines of the National
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism
Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age
chapter Chapter 8|23 pages
Outsourcing Difference
Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture
chapter Chapter 9|21 pages
Producing Global Economies from Below
Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan
part 3|124 pages
The Political: Shifting Spaces and Subjects
chapter Chapter 13|18 pages
Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime
Extralegal Policing and the Penal State in Mexico
