Saskia Sassen on Mon, 8 Dec 2008 00:00:51 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Saskia Sassen: Cities and new wars: after Mumbai |
good point (should we use violence instead of war) here is my reasons for chosing wars, strictly speaking: "new wars". There is a huge literature on violence and cities. and it gets caught up at one end with policiy issues, vnadalism etc. and at the other extreme with interpersonal, spycholgical etc. violence. I am trying to carve out a space that is neithr of these, and to detect if there is a systemic undercurrent that needs to be caputred and to do so we cannot use such a broad term as violence. so yes, what i am after is much rarer probably than violence in general in cities. really enjoying reading all the posts on nettime that came my way on this subject. if i do not always repsond it is becasue im running to a class (yeah, or to a plane..;) my experienc eof em is that if i do not answer promptly, i do not get to answer it. it is a bit the character of the medium. Saskia Sassen Robert S.Lynd Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought Columbia University 422 Fayerweather Hall 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 USA T - 212.854.0790 F - 212.854.2963 E/M - sjs2@columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sociology # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org