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].
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Miles Kenney-Lazar
PhD Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610
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