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

Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela, Jorge Budrovich Sáez and Claudia Cerda Becker
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Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela: Institute of History and Social Sciences, Austral University of Chile, Chile
Jorge Budrovich Sáez: Faculty of Humanities, University of Valparaíso, Chile
Claudia Cerda Becker: Institute of Psychological Studies, Austral University of Chile, Chile

Urban Planning, 2021, vol. 6, issue 3, 69-89

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

Keywords: agribusiness; Chile; port-city; social and economic restructuring; Valparaíso (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i3.4242

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