Defetishizing the asset form

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Ouma, Stefan:
Defetishizing the asset form.
In: Dialogues in Human Geography. Bd. 14 (2024) Heft 1 . - S. 30-33.
ISSN 2043-8214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231157902

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Abstract

In response to Birch and Ward's paper, this commentary makes a call for a more systematic attempt to politicize contemporary logics of property ownership, and the extractive financial schemes based upon them. Building on earlier critiques of commodity fetishism in geography, I argue that a geographical politics of the asset form can help us defetishize and (re-)politicize the DNA of the ‘global return society’. Innovative visual methodologies play a key role in making new asset geographies public and actionable for social change.