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saskia sassen Columbia University Professor Hickman--It is not structural. It is functional. Many of Hickman's comments focus on the analytics I develop in my book on territory, authority, and rights (Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights; cited hereafter as TAR). Thus it is this discussion that I focus on here. Hickman writes: As I understand her work, then, Sassen is advancing a type of transhistorical account . . . . [F]or Sassen territory, authority and rights are "transhistorical components present in almost all societies." . . . Does this amount to the invocation of a "grand historical narrative," or is it merely a generalization on existing cases? More specifically, how can this transhistorical claim be operationalized for those such as educators, engineers, scientists, financiers, and public officials, for example, who are charged with thinking critically about our problematic present and our common future? (Hickman, "Saskia Sassen" 9192) Responding to these questions, I would say that while I use the term "transhistorical" to characterize territory, authority, and rights, it is in a specific sense: they are present in all complex forms of socio-political organization, from nomadic tribes to nation-states, but they do so in highly variable shapes and combinations. Because they
The Pluralist – University of Illinois Press
Published: Oct 25, 2013
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