Editors: Dr Jordi Nofre (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal) and Dr Manuel García‑Ruiz (ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal) 1. Introduction & Theoretical Framing The city at night has long evaded the analytical centrality granted to its daytime counterpart. Despite the profound transformations that unfold after dark— e.g., social, spatial, economic, cultural, environmental and affective, among others—the nocturnal dimension of urban life remains curiouslyContinueContinue reading “The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities (to be published in mid-2027).”
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New Special Issue – After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities, and Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism
“After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities, and Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism” in Tourism Geographies. Explore light festivals, queer nightlife, stargazing, affective atmospheres, and nighttime urbanism. Abstracts due November 15, 2025.
Youth, Nightlife, and Intersectional Data: Reflections from REJS 3.0
On May 29, 2025, I had the pleasure of participating—together with Jordi Nofre—in the IV Conference of the Youth and Society Studies Network (REJS 3.0), held under the inspiring title “Youth Intelligences for Social Change: Emerging Demands and Commitments.” Our joint presentation, titled “Propuesta de investigación cuantitativa interseccional sobre el valor social, cultural, comunitario y socioemocional delContinueContinue reading “Youth, Nightlife, and Intersectional Data: Reflections from REJS 3.0”
Light Festivals and Proximity Tourism: Rethinking the Impact of Nighttime Cultural Events in Portugal
On May 4, 2025, I had the honour and great pleasure of delivering a talk titled “Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Nocturnal Cultural Events: The Role of Light Festivals in Proximity Tourism in Portugal”, as part of the Cities and Creativity seminar series hosted by the Universidade do Algarve in Faro. The session provided an opportunity to share reflections on theContinueContinue reading “Light Festivals and Proximity Tourism: Rethinking the Impact of Nighttime Cultural Events in Portugal”
Teaching and Research in Casablanca: A Week of Night Studies at Université Hassan II
From April 7 to April 14, 2025, I had the privilege of serving as a Visiting Professor at the Université Hassan II de Casablanca, invited by the Laboratoire de recherche LADSIS at the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Ben M’Sik. This academic stay was both enriching and collaborative, combining pedagogical activities with field-basedContinueContinue reading “Teaching and Research in Casablanca: A Week of Night Studies at Université Hassan II”
Night Research and Ethics in Practice: A Masterclass at INAU, Rabat
On April 8, 2025, I was honoured to lead a masterclass on qualitative methods and ethical challenges in the study of the urban night, held at the amphitheatre of the Institut National d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme (INAU) in Rabat, Morocco. Titled “Explorer la nuit urbaine: méthodes qualitatives et enjeux éthiques,” this session was organized in collaboration with the research laboratory LAPSIS.ContinueContinue reading “Night Research and Ethics in Practice: A Masterclass at INAU, Rabat”
Exploring the Urban Night in Casablanca: A Conference on Night Sociology
On April 7, 2025, I was invited to deliver a conference titled “Sociologie de la nuit: interactions, politiques publiques, culture et transformation urbaine” at Université Hassan II de Casablanca. The event was hosted by the Laboratoire de Recherche LADSIS and the Master in Social Institutions Dynamics (DIS). In my talk, I shared insights from recent research into how the urbanContinueContinue reading “Exploring the Urban Night in Casablanca: A Conference on Night Sociology”
Special Issue : NOCTURNAL CITIES : PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
GUEST EDITORS Jordi NofreFCT Associate Research Professor in Urban GeographyLXNIGHTS Research Group | CoordinatorCentro Interdisciplinar de Ciências SociasFaculdade de Ciências Sociais e HumanasUniversidade Nova de LisboaORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7367-1337 Manuel Garcia-RuizResearcher in SociologyInternational Night Studies Network | CoordinatorCentro de Investigação e Estudos de SociologiaInstituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2141-2525 Alejandro Mercado-CelisInvestigador Centro de Investigaciones sobre América delContinueContinue reading “Special Issue : NOCTURNAL CITIES : PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”
Lights On Romania: Impacts of a Light Art Circuit
On October 28th, 2020, I had the honour of being the sole speaker at the Night Studies Research Seminar / Seminario de Investigación “Estudios sobre la Noche”, organized by: The Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN-UNAM), Mexico The Institut de Géoarchitecture (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) and the Institut des Amériques, France The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (McGill University), CanadaContinueContinue reading “Lights On Romania: Impacts of a Light Art Circuit”
Documenting the Night: Survey Research at Lumina Light Festival 2017
In 2017, during the Lumina Light Festival in Cascais, I conducted a large-scale survey as part of my ethnographic research on light festivals and nighttime urban experiences. This work would later become a central component of my doctoral thesis in sociology. Recently, Ocubo, the artistic studio and main organizer of Lumina, produced a short video that documents theContinueContinue reading “Documenting the Night: Survey Research at Lumina Light Festival 2017”
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz 