Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’

An asset is both a resource and property, in that it generates income streams with its sale price based on the capitalization of those revenues. Although an asset's can be financially sliced up, aggregated, speculated upon across highly diverse geographies, there still has to something underpinning these financial operations. Something generate political economic actor lay claim through property or other right, entailing process enclosure, rent extraction, formation, capitalization. Geographers social scientists are producing growing literature illustrating range new (and old) classes created by capitalists their search for revenue streams, which we argue assetization necessary concept focus moment enclosure extraction. It pressing task human geographers unpack contingent ‘asset geographies’ entailed this process. As middle empirical problematic, important focal point wider debates geography focusing attention material remaking society making implies.