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Podcast: The Complexity of Powerlessness

Saskia SassenOn 26 May Professor Saskia Sassen gave the Refugee Studies Centre’s annual “Elizabeth Colson Lecture”.

Prof. Sassen spoke on the topic of “The complexity of Powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?”

A podcast of this lecture is now available to listen to on Forced Migration Online.

Prof. Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She spoke about the limits of power and the complexities of powerlessness, using the examples of immigration and human rights to help to explore these abstract issues.

The Elizabeth Colson Lecture is held annually in honour of Professor Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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One Response to “Podcast: The Complexity of Powerlessness”

  1. asbourn Says:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 6:47 am

    “The complexity of Powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?”
    well….a nice topic, even if i don’t know more about human rights law perform, cause actually i’m in endineering bacground, but it real a nice topic

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