Neoliberal Economic, Social, and Spatial Restructuring: Valparaíso and Its Agricultural Hinterland

The analysis of the neoliberal restructuring Chilean port cities and their hinterland suggests there was a functional coupling neoliberalisation, precarisation, reterritorialisation, extraction, logistics. To address this process properly, we expanded boundaries our analytical scale to include not only city, but also its hinterland, be able examine flow commodities labour. demonstrated that effects Valparaíso has had interconnected ambivalent effects. Although social economic agricultural terminals in Chile increased land productivity competitiveness, pattern capitalist modernisation benefitted neither increasing masses temporary precarious workers countryside nor such as Valparaíso, marked by territorial inequality, socioecological damage, urban poverty, growing sense closure littoral reduced access ocean. These negative externalities frictions have triggered local political controversies, commercial disputes, labour strikes, socio-territorial conflicts.