- combination of the focus on the night and migration. Publication in English adds to its global reach. - opening up a dialogue between more policy-oriented and infrastructural perspectives as well as focus on cultural narratives to offer a more comprehensive vision of the night. - intrinsic transdisciplinary approach Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension necessary to understand the complexities of todays urban spaces, including the often-polarizing question of migration. After dusk, urban social challenges are often magnified, as questions of who can be where and when along ethnic, racial or gender lines, for example gain an additional dimension.
The volume underscores, indeed, the multi-dimensionality of night spaces, where bottom-up, grassroot initiatives provide opportunities for self-expression by traditionally marginalized and silenced groups. Chapters span disciplines of urbanism and urban history, literary, film and cultural studies, music, sociology of labour, anthropology of migration, alongside autoethnographic contributions and practice-based photo essays by artists for whom the night is their habitual setting and canvas.
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Introduction by Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues
I Urban Policy, (Self-)Governance and Infrastructures of the Night
1: 'Dark Practices: Sensing the City After Dusk' by Nick Dunn
2: 'Spaces to Cope, to Connect and to Relax for Refugee Youth' by Ilse van
Liempt
3: 'Queer Spheres: Making and Un-making Worlds and Nations through Londons
LGBTQ+ Night Spaces' by Ben Campkin
4: 'Planning for Nocturnal Cultural Encounters' by Marion Roberts
5: 'A Nightnography of Food Couriers: Precarity and Inequality in After Dark
Platform Work' by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
6: 'Transformers of the Urban Night: Platform Work, Migration and Smart City'
by Laura-Solmaz Litschel
7: 'Digital Day Labourers Sleepless in the Gig Economy. Photo Essay' -
fieldwork photo essay by Laura-Solmaz Litschel
II Cultural Narratives and Experiences of the Diverse Urban Nightlife
8: 'Pandemic Dusks' by Derek Pardue
9: 'Spaces of Night-Time Encounter: Nocturnal Politics in Global Cinema,
20182022' by Will Straw
10: 'Music within Nocturnal Constellations: A Photo Essay from Two Irish
Cities' by Ailbhe Kenny & Katie Young
11: '(De)migrant(izing) Music Nights: Intergenerational Cultural Flows and
Transnational Belonging in the Rotterdam Cabo Verdean Diaspora' by Seger
Kersbergen and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues
12: 'Tejo Bar: A Portal for the Cosmopolitics of Musicking' by Alcides J.D.
Lopes
13: 'Night Spaces as Terreiros: The Case of Amsterdams Theatre Munganga as
Ground for Intercultural Citizenship' by Sara Brandellero and Francianne dos
Santos Velho
14: 'Lets Night Draw! Darkness and Light in the Urban Night' by Chantal
Meng
III 'Contested Cities: Afterword' by Adam Eldridge
Index
Sara Brandellero is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She explores cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking world, with a particular focus on Brazil. Between 20192022 she was Project Leader of the European project Night Spaces: migration, culture and integration in Europe (NITE). Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She was a co-investigator in the HERA-funded grant Night Spaces: Migration, Culture, and Integration in Europe and is currently leading the ERC project City Tales: An Art-Based Participatory Framework for Studying Migration-Related Diversity. Derek Pardue is author of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop (Palgrave McMillan, 2008/2011), Cape Verde, Lets Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal (University of Illinois Press 2015) and Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Bloomsbury 2021). He is an Associate Professor in the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University, Denmark.
