ABSTRACT Valparaíso's port-city relationship has been reshaped by tensions between port expansion for economic growth and heritage-led urban tourism following UNESCO's 2003 designation. This article examines these dynamics around the proposed Terminal 2 project across two periods (2015–2016; 2023), using interviews with key actors. It traces a shift from conflict to partial collaboration after the project's failure, suggesting institutional learning. While moments of consensus emerged among authorities, businesses, and civil society, fragmented governance and competing urban agendas continue to produce uncertainty about the future of the port-city relationship.

ABSTRACT In this article I reflect on my engagement with Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) when studying health and vulnerability. I highlight the crucial contribution of FPE in bringing the human body into the analysis of socio-environmental systems and conflicts, connecting the scale of personal, embodied experience to broader socio-environmental dynamics. FPE challenges the conventional view of vulnerability as only negative and to be avoided, instead inviting an ‘otherwise’ thinking of it as a common human trait and a potential site for empowerment and resistance. This shift promotes a focus on interdependence and care in socio-ecological transformation.

ABSTRACT This study examines urban development in Hamadan, Iran, through the lens of discourse theory and agonistic planning. Analyzing 3,604 media texts, it identifies two dominant coalitions – reformist-architectural and fundamentalist-civil engineering – whose conflicting discourses produce cycles of counter-development and spatial contestation. Here, planning functions not as participatory governance but as a hegemonic struggle, undermining communicative ideals in polarized, semi-authoritarian settings. The research critiques participatory rhetoric as politically instrumental and proposes an agonistic planning model as a more contextually appropriate alternative. Through the concept of ‘antagonistic counter-development’, this research contributes to a better understanding of urban planning within ideologically divided settings.

ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, Jakarta's periurban areas have experienced rapid urbanization, with South Tangerang, established in 2008, emerging as a key example. This study investigates how large-scale land conversion by private developers has shaped urban growth and affected housing affordability in the area. The findings reveal that over 66% of South Tangerang is fully or partially owned by private developers, leading to rising land values and increased housing and infrastructure costs. Since 2013, no subsidized housing has been built due to high land prices. The study concludes that continued reliance on market-driven development risks worsening affordability and spatial fragmentation.

ABSTRACT The spatial turn in peace and conflict studies brought valuable insights about space in (post-)conflict contexts. Nevertheless, critiques of this literature call for further engagement with spatial heterogeneity. I suggest that analyzing space–time relationships is a promising avenue, as understandings of space are substantiated by heterogeneous temporal experiences. To capture space–time heterogeneity, I introduce the concept of ‘spatio-temporal conflicts’, which draws attention to how actors construct spatial narratives based on heterogeneous and conflicting temporalities. I illustrate the analytical usefulness of this concept by employing it to explore conflicting space–time narratives around the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in post-war Mostar.