The issue opens with four articles that, while addressing different topics and contexts, are all grounded in extensive empirical research and yield findings of significant conceptual and theoretical relevance. The first examines the relationship between infrastructures and differential mobility regimes, proposing the concept of the infrastructure's "nocturnal body" on the basis of intensive fieldwork conducted in the Trieste borderscape. The second addresses the issue of social acceptance and local responses to large-scale energy infrastructures through an historical analysis of a refinery and of industry-community relations that have developed in the Lomellina region. The third explores the nocturnal geographies and practices of a group of young women in Naples, focusing on the relational strategies they adopt to cope with fear and danger. The fourth presents a detailed analysis of food districts in Piedmont, and of the relationship between food systems, rural landscapes, and local development. The section concludes with a critical reflection on the role of ports and city-port relations in light of the new configurations of global logistics and their increasingly evident environmental and territorial impacts.
The "Opinions and Debates" section features two critical book reviews: to “Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialisation”, by Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, and to “Critical Perspectives on Social Constructions of Nature: Italy and the Bel Paese”, edited by Sara Bonati, Margherita Cisani, Marco Tononi, and Giacomo Zanolin.