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Special Session at the 2015 AAG Annual Meeting: The Geography of Inequality in AsiaInequality is a fundamental issue for human society, a core subject of academic inquiry, and a major concern of governments. There has been a long-lasting debate about the pattern, trajectory, and mechanisms of geographical inequality, as well as policies that address poverty and inequality. This debate has been dominated by convergence (e.g., neoclassical economics) and divergence (e.g., dependency, neo-Marxism) schools. Concerns for the negative effects of globalization and liberalization and the unequal benefits of the transition in socialist countries have generated renewed debates since the late 1980s, which are intellectually enriched by developments in the new economic geography, new growth theory, economic sociology, institutional/evolutionary economic geography, and GIS. Thanks largely to the intensification of globalization and the uneven consequences of the recent global financial crisis, inequality has once again become a hotly debated topic among top world leaders, including those of the United Nations, World Bank and United States.The geography of inequality has also drawn renewed scholarly interest, but the existing knowledge is fragmented and partial. This session intends to attract scholars with varied backgrounds to examine the dimensions, complexity, and dynamics of the geography of inequality from multiple perspectives.Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:Outcomes: income, social, health, education, digital, innovation, environmental inequalities, etc., and their interactive effectsTrajectory/Dynamics: Timing, effects of intergenerational inequality, levels of developmentScale: From global to local and everyday life, with an emphasis on the regional scaleSpace/Place: Spatial association/agglomeration/clustering, core-periphery relations, uneven nature of inequality, space/place as agents etc.Networks: Spatial relations, flows, interactionsProcesses/Mechanisms: Globalization, liberalization, marketization, institutional change, decentralization, geographyProcedures/Policies: Role of institutions, policy effects and options, justice, planningMethodology: ESDA, spatial regression, GWR, multilevel modeling, spatial Markov chain, spatial distribution dynamics, big data etc.DateApril 21-25, 2015LocationAAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill.OrganizersYehua Dennis Wei, Professor, Department of Geography and Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, wei@geog.utah.edu.Sanjoy Chakravorty, Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, sanjoy@temple.edu.Submission ProcedurePlease submit your participation/registration fee and abstracts online through the AAG's website (www.aag.org). We would appreciate it if you would send us your PIN and title at your earliest time, at least two weeks before the AAG official deadline, to give us time to finalize and register the sessions. More info at: www.aag.org&#160;