New Geographies of Extraction

Energy and sustainability, Harvard GSD, High Density, Ibai Rigby Assoc, ka-au, Politics and economics, Saskia Sassen, TalkTerritory and mobility, Urban Paradigms.

Africa, Angola, Capitalism, China, Consumption, Crossed border operations, Economy, Environment, Financial crisis, Functionality, Geographical scale, Geographies of extraction, Global Awareness, Global Cities, Global city function, Global extractive mode, Global market, Global South, Globalization, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Hierarchies, Imperialism, Local resources, london, Luanda, New York, Power, Resources, Rio de Janeiro, Shell companies, Sustainability, talk, Urban Paradigms, Wealth

Interview by Ibai Rigby for urbanNext, at the South Asian Institute at Harvard University.

In this short filmed interview, third in a series produced during the conference ‘Decoding Asian Urbanism’ held at the South Asian Institute at Harvard University, Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen talks about the differences between Imperialism and contemporary geographies of power and extraction.