American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 17-21, 2026
Paper session organized by Lacey Harris-Coble, University of Florida, and Amalie Ravn Weinrich, University of Copenhagen
Abstract
Trade cuts across economic, political, cultural, and environmental geographies, yet it is not often given attention as a standalone topic. The geography of trade examines how the flows of goods, services, capital, and labor are shaped by spatial arrangements. It asks how infrastructures, borders, policies, and social relations structure exchange and networks across scales, and how trade, in turn, reshapes places.
This session invites papers that examine trade as a spatial process: how infrastructures, borders, corridors, ports, standards, and supply-chain governance shape (and are shaped by) the movement of goods, data, capital, and labor.
We seek contributions that focus on how place, scale, and territory organize trade networks and outcomes—who benefits, who is excluded, and how those dynamics change. Scholars may approach these questions through diverse methods, from mapping and network analysis to ethnography and other empirical research.
We welcome quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods work, as well as contributions spanning commodities, regions, and scales.
Interested?
Please send proposed titles and abstracts (250 words or less) and/or expressions of interest to both Lacey Harris-Coble (lharriscoble@ufl.edu) and Amalie Ravn Weinrich (amalie.weinrich@jur.ku.dk) no later than October 15, 2025.
We will notify contributors of acceptance by October 20, 2025. All accepted contributors will then need to register for the conference through the AAG website and send the registration code (PIN) they receive to us.
Please note: You must submit your abstract and pay the registration fee for your PIN to be activated. The deadline to submit an abstract on the AAG portal is October 30, 2025.