words

Kevin Quinn kquinn at cba.bgsu.edu
Sun Nov 5 13:19:56 PST 2000


At 03:41 PM 11/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Maureen Therese Anderson wrote:
>
>> >Can anyone name this author?
>>
>>That would be Saskia Sassen.
>
>Bingo. It's from the paper she's giving to the panel I'm on at the
>anthro meeting in SF in two weeks.
>
>>Still, my impression is that Sassen is on your page, Doug.
>
>Dunno if I'd say that, but gawd what prose! As far as I can tell, the
>25 pages I read after posting that early paragraph boil down to:
>"Global? National? Local? Kinda hard to tell. But there's some heavy
>shit going down here that we really have to figure out."
>

A paper by Saskia Sassen Uses words in a very odd fashion: With complex imbrication Of local and nation- al, global--but where is the passion?



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