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ABSTRACT
Our current epoch is strongly marked by the growing capacity of mostly powerful actors to connect across the world. And yet, these are partial capabilities, in good part because vast populations of mostly poor people do occupy vast stretches of land. And even though marked by poverty, immobility, and powerlessness, the presence of billions of poor is emerging as a dominant factor in the ongoing re-shaping of our planet.
Acknowledgements
A very special thank you to both Barry Gills and Barrie Axford for their support.
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Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA. Her most recent book is Cities at war (Columbia University Press, 2020), co-edited with Mary Kaldor, and the fifth edition of Cities in a world economy (Sage, 2018).