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Call for Papers, AAG Annual Meeting, New York, 24-28 February 2012 *Financialization, Property, and Rent* Organizer: Miles Kenney-Lazar, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University Recently, geographers have become interested in two significant and contemporary issues: 1) real estate market crashes in the US and Eurozone and 2) large-scale, rural land acquisitions, or land grabs, across the Global South. Although these phenomena are distinct, both are connected to the 2008 financial crisis, the former as a cause and the latter as a result. Furthermore, they can be conceptually linked by analyzing the increasing financialization of property and rent. However, current theorizations of the relationships between these key political economic concepts - financialization, property, and rent - remain partial and disparate. By illuminating their conceptual linkages, this session seeks to forge new theoretical paths towards understanding contemporary property acquisition, speculation, and dispossession in both rural and urban domains of the global economy. Both theoretical and empirical papers examining how and why these three processes interact are welcomed and need not directly relate to the above-mentioned phenomena. If you would like to participate in this session, send your abstract (abiding by AAG guidelines) and your AAG pin by 20 September to [log in to unmask] -- Miles Kenney-Lazar PhD Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow Graduate School of Geography, Clark University 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610 [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>