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Assetization and the 'new asset geographies'.

Kean Birch¹, Callum Ward²

¹York University, Canada.

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Assetization transforms resources into income-generating property through enclosure and rent extraction. This concept is crucial for understanding how financial assets reshape society and its geographies.

Keywords:

Assetization asset geographies capitalization financialization rentier capitalism rentiership

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Area of Science:

Human Geography
Economic Geography
Social Sciences

Background:

Assets generate income streams, underpinned by underlying resources or property rights.
Financialization involves slicing, aggregating, and speculating on these income streams across geographies.
Capitalists create new asset classes to secure revenue streams.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce assetization as a key concept to analyze the creation of financial assets.
Focus on the critical moments of enclosure and rent extraction in asset formation.
Encourage human geographers to explore the diverse 'asset geographies'.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis of assetization.
Literature review of social science research on asset creation.
Argument for assetization as a middle-range concept in human geography.

Main Results:

Assetization highlights the processes of enclosure and rent extraction inherent in financial asset creation.
It emphasizes the material and social transformations accompanying financialization.
Identifies 'asset geographies' as a vital area for geographical inquiry.

Conclusions:

Assetization provides a focused lens for understanding the socio-economic and geographical implications of financialization.
It is essential for analyzing how property rights are formed and enforced to extract rent.
The concept facilitates a deeper understanding of the material remaking of society through financial asset creation.