Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces Cultural Encounters After Dusk

• Main Authors: Brandellero, Sara, Krakowska Rodrigues, Kamilia, Pardue, Derek, Roberts, Marion, MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar, Litschel, Laura-Solmaz, dos Santos Velho, Francianne, Meng, Chantal
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2025
• Edition: 1
• Series: Cities and Cultures
• Subjects: Communication studies; diversity; intercultural communication; Interdisciplinary studies; migration; Migration, immigration and emigration; public spaces; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Social and ethical issues; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Urban communities; Urban night; Urban communities; South; Urban night, migration, intercultural communication, diversity, public spaces; Contemporary Society; AUP Wetenschappelijk; Sociology and Social History; Migration, immigration and emigration; Urban; Diversity & Multiculturalism; Media Studies; Sociology; Cultural Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Popular Culture; Communication studies; Urban Cultures; Film, Media, and Communication
• ISBN: 9048558743; 9789048558742; 9048558751; 9789048558759
• DOI: 10.5117/9789048558742

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.