Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces : Cultural Encounters after Dusk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandellero, Sara.

Contributor:

Krakowska Rodrigues, Kamilia.

Pardue, Derek.

Series:

Cities and Cultures Series

Cities and Cultures Series ; v.13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LGBTQ+ night life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 today’s 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

I Urban Policy, (Self-)Governance and Infrastructures of the Night

1. Dark Practices: Sensing the City After Dusk

2. Spaces to Cope, to Connect and to Relax for Refugee Youth

3. Queer Spheres : Making and Un-making Worlds and Nations through London’s LGBTQ+ Night Spaces

4. Planning for Nocturnal Cultural Encounters

5. A Nightnography of Food Couriers : Precarity and Inequality in After Dark Platform Work

6. Transformers of the Urban Night: Platform Work, Migration and Smart City

7. Digital Day Labourers—Sleepless in the Gig Economy

II Cultural Narratives and Experiences of the Diverse Urban Nightlife

8. Pandemic Dusks

9. Spaces of Night-Time Encounter : Nocturnal Politics in Global Cinema, 2018–2022

10. Music within Nocturnal Constellations : A Photo Essay from Two Irish Cities

11. (De)migrant(izing) Music Nights : Intergenerational Cultural Flows and Transnational Belonging in the Rotterdam Cabo Verdean Diaspora

12. Tejo Bar: A Portal for the Cosmopolitics of Musicking

13. Night Spaces as Terreiros: The Case of Amsterdam’s Theatre Munganga as Ground for Intercultural Citizenship

14. Let’s Night Draw! Darkness and Light in the Urban Night

III Contested Cities

Afterword

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-078825-4

1-003-70894-3

1-04-079417-3

90-485-5875-1

9781003708940

OCLC:

1490409139