When the global inhabits the national
Fuzzy interactions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20068529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sassen (0000-0002-3468-6923, Columbia University, corresponding author), Saskia Sassen |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 115-125 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | New Constitutionalism and World Order (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781107284142.011 |
| OpenAlex | W2465368892 |
| ISBN | 9781107284142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In much of my work I have been keen on discovering what is obscured by the dominant vocabulary through which a major disciplinary subject is captured, described and researched. In the case of globalization and the neo-liberal project, the focus in this short piece, it is a vocabulary that emphasizes the global and the national as antagonists – what one wins the other loses. This holds whether the perspective on issues/events comes from the left or the right of the political spectrum. Such a dualism functions as a reasonable description and can be intuitively satisfying. Dominant explanations do explain and they are to be taken seriously. Yet their clarity rests partly on the selecting of some features and the discarding of others which wind up in the penumbra around the centre of light. It is in that penumbra around a powerful explanation where I do my research; it has been a key analytic tactic in my work (2007)
CLARITY · Discipline · Dualism · Epistemology · Globalization · Linguistics · Penumbra · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vocabulary · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |