to engage inquiries into urban social dynamics that are invisible to macro analyses.
-- Giovanni Picker Urban Studies
Once again, sociologist Sassen uses her considerable knowledge to think creatively at both the local and global levels... In place of the principle of inclusion in the pre-1980s Keynesian era, the planet is increasingly dominated by a principle of exclusion of people, land, natural resources, and water. Sassen presents a powerful conceptual analysis and an equally powerful and timely call to action.
-- M. Oromaner Choice
In this intellectually audacious and persuasive book, Sassen exposes the fundamental forces at play in current forms of economic, political, and social structures. She correctly contrasts the world as most people understand it with the world as it is actually evolving, towards an extreme form of capitalism with activities that occur across international borders-to devastating effects. This is a powerful, highly relevant, and timely book.
-- Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Princeton University
Expulsions is original, thoughtful, evidence-based, and chillingly lucid. There is no other book like it. Its arguments on growing inequality, land grabs, financial footlooseness, and biospheric destruction are a diagnosis of our unstable and disconcerting times-a much-needed wake-up call.
-- Ash Amin, University of Cambridge
