Saskia Sassen: Geographies of Expulsion

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• Saskia Sassen, Colombia University
• Thursday 02 March 2017, 18:00-19:15
• Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. We are very honoured to have Saskia talk about the past two decades of sharp growth in the number of people, enterprises, and places expelled from the core social and economic orders of our time. Once expelled, a kind of strange invisibility sets in, no matter how material that which is expelled – whether it is the 30 million people expelled from their homes in the USA over the last decade, or the rapidly expanding stretches of dead land and dead water in our world. This tipping into radical expulsion was enabled by elementary decisions in some cases, but in others by some of our most advanced economic and technical achievements. She will use the notion of expulsions to go beyond the more familiar notion of growing inequality, and get at some of the more complex pathologies in today’s world. It brings to the fore the fact that forms of knowledge and intelligence we respect and admire are often at the origin of long transaction chains that can end in simple and brutal expulsions.

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks series.

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