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SUMMARY:Saskia Sassen: Geographies of Expulsion - Saskia Sassen\, Colombia
  University
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CONTACT:Emma Harper
DESCRIPTION:Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and
  Chair\, The Committee on Global Thought\, Columbia University. We are ver
 y 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 – w
 hether it is the 30 million people expelled from their homes in the USA ov
 er the last decade\, or the rapidly expanding stretches of dead land and d
 ead water in our world. \nThis 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 e
 xpulsions to go beyond the more familiar notion of growing inequality\, an
 d get at some of the more complex pathologies in today’s world. It bring
 s 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 en
 d in simple and brutal expulsions.\n
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Geography Department\, Downing Site
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