Night studies

Les nuits urbaines actuelles sont le fruit d'une évolution sous influence de plusieurs facteurs. C'est à la compréhension de cette tendance évolutive que s'attèle ce présent travail. En ce sens, cette étude propose d'interroger les sociabilités et les espaces des nuits de Dakar en s'appuyant sur une géographie historique, à partir de sources documentaires, qui met en lumière les usages spatiaux d'un milieu suivant deux périodes. D'abord une période durant laquelle ledit milieu est exempt de toute influence extérieure ensuite, une période pendant laquelle il est sous domination d'une puissance étrangère. Pour se faire, nous avons adopté une méthodologie qui mobilise des sources écrites et la tradition orale. Les résultats obtenus mettent en lumière des usages nocturnes influencés par la croyance à un monde des esprits. Aussi, le site de Dakar a connu une recomposition à partir de l'urbanisation du site, à l'origine de l'apparition d'espaces d'emprunt qui posent les jalons des nuits d'aujourd'hui porteuses de tensions.

The relation between the urban diurnal and the urban nocturnal has been famously conceptualized with the metaphor of the night as frontier. Originally proposed by Murray Melbin in 1978, the phrase suggests that the nocturnal has been gradually colonized by the capitalist logics of the day. This article contributes to provincializing night studies by postulating a nonlinear and non-dichotomous relation between the urban diurnal and nocturnal. Specifically, the article adopts the philosophical perspective of the constitutive outside, as articulated in a recent strand of contemporary urban studies, exploring the paradoxical and even contradictory generative tensions shaping the meanings, materialities and politics of the urban night. This theoretical posture is explored through the case of Turin, Italy, a city that has developed a complex tension between the diurnal and the nocturnal which cannot be interpreted simply from a dichotomistic perspective, as the metaphor of the urban frontier suggests.

This chapter explores the social inequalities experienced by migrants working as food couriers in London and Cork. Migrant women in particular are often dependent on such jobs in the lower end of the labour market, which includes nightshifts (see Litschel and MacQuarie, in Brandellero et al, 2024). By applying the ‘nocturnal praxis’ (Brandellero et al, 2024, p. 28) and an innovative approach to sensory ethnography (Pink 2015), this chapter contributes to to an emerging body of methods that acknowledges that experiences and representations of the city after dusk are frequently overlooked in humanities and social sciences (Diamanti and Boudreault-Fournier 2021; MacQuarie 2021; Brandellero, Kenny and Pardue 2022). Moreover, the chapter renews calls to further research the gendered nature of platform work.

Tourism is, in its nature and its forms, an activity which inscribes its consequences in a wide
range of changes. In that it requires infrastructure, space and attracts significant demographic flows, its
imprints on the environment recompose it. In Senegal, seaside tourism, which exploded in 1977 with
the creation of the Saly Portudal resort, led to changes in space and temporality. This present research
attempts to understand how the seaside resort of Saly Portudal influenced the evolution of the site? Our
demonstration is based on a methodology combining documentary research and field work which resulted
in the collection of quantitative and qualitative data. In light of the results of this research we see that
Saly Portudal has evolved in space and time. In this regard, the site is marked by continuous extension
and an infrastructural complex worthy of a modern city. In time, the night, a priori, feared in Senegalese
society is, today, prized, cherished, thanks to all the opportunities it offers. The Saly Portudal that we
know today is therefore shaped by tourism. Therefore, we can agree with the example of Saly Portudal
that tourism produces space and, in this sense, can determine territorial planning.

Plasmare un'indagine geografica della notte urbana contemporanea con una guida storica Assumendo una prospettiva interdisciplinare, l'analisi decostruisce la guida storica «Venezia notturna» (Sugana, 1891) tramite le lenti dei night studies e il concetto di nightscape. In accordo con le tematiche della guida, una breve genealogia ragionata dei night studies principalmente incentrata sugli studi dedicati all'economia della notte presenta i principali riferimenti teorici utilizzati in due successive sezioni complementari che, rispettivamente, raccolgono una serie di rilievi preliminari sulla notte urbana veneziana contemporanea e le note ricavate dalla lettura ravvicinata della guida. La giustapposizione delle riflessioni sviluppate nelle due sezioni complementari permette di individuare le linee di ricerca afferenti a tre macroaree di interesse interdipendenti e interconnesse-pratiche e luoghi dell'economia notturna, spazi vissuti della notte urbana e narrazioni notturne-che costituiscono il framework per un'indagine geografica della notte urbana contemporanea di Venezia.

A CITY IS THE PLACE OF DIVERSITY. A space of sociability and encounters. Urban experience is marked by the existence of different points of view, of different social actors, each of which with its own legitimate traditions, cultures and life styles. It is this diversity which strengthens the concept of the contemporary city. On the other hand, the globalized logic of great metropolitan centers tends to suffocate and diminish the areas of social interaction typical of urban societies, be it due to gentrification 1 or, more generally, to models of occupation and urbanization that fracture the fabric of urban societies, destroying its social coexistence. The construction of isolated bubbles (private condominiums and multiuse urban facilities that congregate offices, hotels, shopping centers, gyms and other leisure-related activities) are examples 1) "Gentrification" is the name given to the expulsion of poor inhabitants from a specific region by means of a set of socioeconomic and urbanistic measures determined by the hyper-valorization of real estate and the soaring of living costs. In this sense, gentrification is characterized by exclusionary processes of urban transformation, which not only configure the aspect of expulsion but also the precariousness of people's lives in cities. Independently of its agents, gentrification always implies the displacement of lower-class inhabitants, denoting, therefore, a classist and segregationist nature. 2.1 "CITY OF LIGHTS", POLÍTICA DO IMPOSSÍVEL, 2008. Collective walk entitled "Bring your light", a critical action to the gentrification of the Luz neighborhood in São Paulo. Photography: Peetssa "CIDADE LUZ", POLÍTICA DO IMPOSSÍVEL, 2008. Caminhada coletiva "Traga sua luz", uma ação crítica à gentrificação do bairro da Luz, em São Paulo. Fotografia: Peetssa WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY OF THINKING THE NIGHT THE RHYTHM OF OUR LIVES AND OUR CITIES HAS SUFFERED TRANSFORMATIONS under the influence of concurrent phenomena: individualization of behaviors, progressive elimination of binary day/night cycles, the surging of a global instantaneous time, the round the clock pervasiveness of the internet, the dictatorship of urgency, the light that takes over urban space, turning night into day in the sense of allowing for the extension of typically day-related activities as well as the increasing malleability in the use of public space, among other phenomena. These changes have transformed our relation with space and time in the city. Although increasingly unified via information technologies, humankind has never lived temporalities as multifarious as today. In this context, a new concept has appeared in order to tackle new challenges facing societies: CHRONO-URBANISM.

The night was dark and full of terrors in the Mesopotamian world, but the people there sought ways to drive out the darkness, be it an enemy at the city gates, a ghost, or a witch. In this contribution, the author traces the historical evidence for fire beacon communications networks and discusses nocturnal magical rituals like the early first millennium Maqlû series. By the early first millennium BCE, Mesopotamians had been using fire as a means of nighttime communication for centuries. Textual and archaeological evidence makes it abundantly clear that fire beacons were an important part of how they avoided peril. No less real than enemy invaders, ghosts, and witches haunted the night in Mesopotamia, and people developed rituals to protect themselves. In sum, the essay integrates archaeological and textual evidence from the early first millennium BCE states of Assyria and Urartu to discuss the various ways in which ancient Mesopotamians sought agency over the unpredictable.

The text focuses on how clandestinity, understood as the articulation of spaces of secrecy and invisibility, is traversed by a singular form of architectural knowledge centered around embodied practices. A set of minor know-hows playing with the lines of the visible world while understanding the material effects of individual and collective bodies, all founded on a fine tuned awareness to the fuzziness and material qualities of the world. This phenomenon is studied through the night-faring practices employed by fugitives fleeing slavery American South through the infrastructure known as the Underground Railroad, a network of people, practices and landscapes that connected the United States with Canada and other free territories during the 19th century.

A pesquisa identifica as mudanças ocorridas nesses espaços e no cotidiano dos atores sociais envolvidos e responde à questão sobre como a área revitalizada e o seu entorno direto foram afetados. O projeto é apresentado desde sua fase de concepção até a atual situação. A área é dividida em cinco Cenas, onde são aplicados conceitos da etnografia urbana, como cenário, ator e pedaço. Fronteira urbana e fragmentação sócio-espacial também são discutidos ao longo do artigo. Limites físicos criados, entre outros fatores, afastaram a população do Rio de La Plata delimitando zonas de fronteiras que conformaram o novo espaço urbano.

Si la nuit et la radio vont bien ensemble – ces deux objets appartenant aux territoires de l’intime et de l’imaginaire – que se passe-t-il lorsqu’une voix surgit sur les ondes dans le noir ? Timbres graves des conteurs, chuchotements des confidences ou encore soupirs de séduction… les voix de la nuit ont fait vibrer des générations d’auditeurs. Cet article, qui s’appuie sur une recherche doctorale, explore les spécificités de ces voix de la radio nocturne, à partir d’articles de presse et de courriers d’auditeurs.

I crescenti flussi turistici, il continuo spopolamento, la crescente tensione tra residenti e visitatori sono tre dei problemi più gravi che affliggono il centro storico di Venezia. Lo scopo di questo contributo è quello di esplorare la notte di Venezia come frontiera di espansione del fenomeno turistico e spaziotempo proprio delle pratiche di riappropriazione dello spazio urbano. L'analisi sviluppa una tassonomia delle attività sociali serali e notturne nello spazio pubblico e impiega un quadro metodologico qualitativo basato su un'indagine etnografica strutturata attraverso interviste mirate e osservazione partecipante. In particolare, l’analisi si concentra sulle pratiche urbane notturne nell’area di campo San Giacomo da l’Orio.

Il contributo si sviluppa nel contesto di una ricerca più ampia e si configura come una sperimentazione delle possibilità offerte dalle metodologie creative ai fini dell’elaborazione di un metodo ibrido di raccolta dei dati. Il metodo prevede l’esperienza diretta e individuale dello spazio-tempo urbano notturno e indaga la partecipazione delle sequenze letterarie ai processi di co-produzione dei nightscapes veneziani trasmettendone l’effimera molteplicità. Le riflessioni emerse durante il processo di sintonizzazione progressiva all’atmosfera della notte urbana sono raccolte in un testo autoetnografico e in sei disegni realizzati in situ.

La riflessione proposta è incentrata sul tropo geo-letterario del fantasma, un elemento significativo che è emerso grazie ad un’attenta analisi del testo orientata a individuare stilemi e tematiche ricorrenti. Al fine di enfatizzare il potenziale interpretativo connesso al tropo del fantasma, si è scelto di approfondire l’analisi mettendo a sistema riferimenti critici eterogenei. Da un lato, le lenti dei night studies per approfondire i significati sottesi allo spaziotempo notturno come contesto e ambientazione ricorrente per i riferimenti spettrali. Dall’altro, la geografia critica del turismo così da sviluppare una riflessione sulla contemporaneità del contesto urbano narrato di Venezia.

This paper investigates post-representational mapmaking as a co-constitutive element of a research-through-practice experience, namely a phenomenographic drawing session conducted in Venice, Italy. Contributing to a broader geo-literary investigation, the research experience aims to evaluate a creative method developed to collect data about the roles and functions of literary texts in nightscapes’ co-production processes. Nightwalking, drawing phenomenographic sketches and the recollection of (literary) memories are the primary components of a set of repeated actions constituting the method of the research-through-practice experience. Finally, sketches work with an autoethnographic text built around fieldnotes to report as much information as possible. While re-elaborating this research experience, post-representational mapmaking emerged as a relevant tool with which to reorganise and interpret data. During this process, a map—or rather, an open-ended layer of a complex map of Venice’s literary nightscapes—has emerged, allowing for meaningful reflection. On the one hand, the map provides a synoptic outline of the research experience, connecting nightscape sketches and literary memories on a single sheet of paper. On the other, it points out the relevance of hitherto unmapped elements, such as materiality, itinerary and other literary texts, to further develop the analysis of nightscapes’ co-production processes.

To  emphasise  the  contribution  of  situated  perspectives  to  the  advancement  of  the  field,  this  review  provides  a  genealogy  of  night  studies  across  southwestern  Europe.  This  interdisciplinary  field  of  research  has  significantly  developed in English-speaking scholarly communities, and it has only  more  recently  been  growing  in  importance  on  southwestern European scholars' research agendas. Usually, they produce  research  outputs  in  both  English  and  a  Romance  language. As a result, intertwined lines of scholarly literature emerge  and  contribute  to  the  advancement  of  night  studies to different degrees, depending on international readers' proficiency in the employed (Romance) language and (inter)disciplinary interests. To help handle this accessibility issue, this  review  focuses  on  what  brings  night  studies  together,  despite their heterogeneity. That is, the geographical under-standing of local night space–times as situated phenomena frequently referred to as nightscape. Accordingly, the review suggests reframing the geographical nightscape as a connective  concept  to  bridge  the  gaps  between  multilingual  and  multidisciplinary  research,  fostering  the  interpretation  and  assemblage  of  hybrid  theoretical  frameworks  for  situated investigations that delve into the diverse and interdependent relations co-producing local night space–times.

COViD-19  subjected  people  to  unprecedented  limitations  on  their  personal  mobility  that  have  had  severe  repercussions  in  many  economic  and  social  environments.  tourism  and  nightlife  were  among  the  most  affected  spheres  of  public  life,  and  their  sudden  suspension  catalysed  recurring  phases  of  immobility.  in  addition,  the  implementation  of  social  distancing  and  curfew  policies  turned  a  large  part  of  the  world’s  population  into  immobile  night-time  subjects.  Drawing  on  the  legacy  of  these  pandemic  experiences,  this  analysis  combines  mobility  with  night  studies  to  provide  a  nuanced  understanding  of  the  continuing  process  of  the  co-production  of  local  urban  nights  and  their  atmospheres  via  the  new  interpretive  lens  of  night  im/mobility.  to  engage  in  a  practical  application  of  this  lens,  this  analysis  focuses  on  the  evening  and  night-time  economy  of  Venice’s  historic  city  centre  during  the  pandemic.

Quando scende la notte. Opportunità, limiti e interpretazioni della notte dall’antichità all’età contemporanea è una conferenza organizzata dal Corso di Dottorato in Storia dell’Università di Pavia rivolta a giovani studiosi e studiose che lavorino su progetti di tesi o di ricerca in Storia antica, medievale, moderna e contemporanea e Archeologia. La Student Conference si propone di favorire il dialogo fra studiosi/e di diversa provenienza all’interno di un contesto stimolante e arricchente, nel quale discutere le proprie ricerche. L’edizione 2024 si articola intorno al tema della notte, intesa innanzitutto come arco temporale che intercorre tra il tramonto e l’alba. La notte può però essere qui recepita anche nel senso più ampio dell’oscurità e divenire metafora del buio, interpretato come
momento difficile e caratterizzato da problemi, crisi, decadenza, tristezza, ignoranza, mistero.

Paris and Pau) and different disciplines (environmental geography, land use planning, conservation biology, economics, political science, information and communication sciences, social psychology), as well as a photographer-videographer. He also accompanies several students in their professional project.

This proposal presents an ethnography of the occupation of the public garden at night in Casablanca. This space is located in a working-class neighbourhood characterized by a high density of inhabitants. The dwellings are generally small on the surface, and several families live together in small apartments. The public garden presents a privileged place for women and men to get out of the narrow habitat spaces, meet, and give themselves to other social practices. The

El texto explora un asunto a menudo omitido: la funcio?n que desempen?a la noche en la arquitectura y los estudios urbanos. La discusio?n, enmarcada en el a?mbito emergente de los “estudios nocturnos”, destaca el seminario “Montreal by Night”, cuyo eje central fue la tensio?n entre las ima?genes oficiales de la ciudad y sus actividades nocturnas. Alli? se exploraron temas como la historia de las trabajadoras sexuales, la cobertura media?tica y la transformacio?n de los barrios asociadosa la vida nocturna. El arti?culo enfatiza que es necesario planificar y establecer formas inclusivas de gobernanza de la vida nocturna y destaca la importancia de preservar artefactos y archivos efi?meros. En li?neas generales, el texto enfatiza la creciente importancia de los estudios nocturnos en la investigacio?n acade?mica, las poli?ticas pu?blicas y el activismo.

explores mechanisms for generating possibility within nocturnal urban landscapes situated in Limerick, Ireland, and Paris, France, with the aim of moving beyond the scope of entertainment venues by proposing a wakeful city to explore interventions in mobility, temporary installations, community participation and the reuse of emptied structures.

The following text is a transcription and translation from a conversation with Eduardo Santos, a Brazilian tagger and street artist who currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal. Santos, more widely known as Shp (‘sheep’), member of the group Pregos (literally translated as ‘nails’), responded to questions about identity, life philosophy and art through a series of WhatsApp audios. In addition, Shp and Xiên, another Brazilian migrant, provide a voice-over for a ten-minute video that shows a ‘night in the life’ of a pixador, the name given in Brazilian Portuguese to a street artist who practises the Brazilian variant that mixes elements of tagging and graffiti. Topics broached include: a comparison between pixo and Brazilian funk, marginalized arts, the street, the origins of pixo in Lisbon, respect and the presence of Brazil in the tuga (Portugal). English subtitles were done by Mariana Gil, a Brazilian photographer and migrant living in Aarhus, Denmark (video link: https://www.instagram....

This essay introduces astrocriticism, a critical theory and hermeneutic posture aimed at thinking the politics of expression in the New Space Age. It focuses on the theme of celestial music in American astroculture, offering readings of Thoreau, Lovecraft, Crase, and Smith. The essay contends that one misunderstands American culture, and indeed Anthropocene culture, when one fails to acknowledge that American life is fueled by space power, just as one fails to grasp the shape of the New Space age without interrogating its relationship the longer history of the heavens in the American writing. Yet to grasp these dimensions of American existence, critics need to engage in a critical deconstruction of the global. Thinking beyond the orb demands ungrounding and dis-encorporating the word, accepting, as is argued here, the poet as a remote sensor, not a cosmic being, but a being capable of concretely locating the word in a place that is not on the globe. Yet as exorbitant and as inside out as that may seem, it is only by such means that critics can think our technosphere, sounding out the extraterritorial power relations that have come to dominate life on our planet since Sputnik.

The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at night. The night is, however, a critical element of biological, chemical, physical, and social systems on Earth. Moreover, research into social issues such as inequality, demographic changes, and the transition to a sustainable economy will be compromised if the night is not considered. Recent years, however, have seen a surge in research into the night. We argue that "night studies" is on the cusp of coming into its own as an interdisciplinary field, and that when it does, the field will consider questions that disciplinary researchers have not yet thought to ask.

When everything is darkness around you, literally and figuratively, it is that it is oneself who becomes the light to discover, the instance to work on, to extend. Beyond these first nocturnal ethnographies, these contributions allow us to discover and explore various ways of spending the night for both the reader and the researcher. They allow us to understand, without completely lifting the veil, the mysteries of this fascinating space-time and the practices of its inhabitants. Exploring urban nights also means learning to manage the contradictions and paradoxes of a super-modern society and its actors: illuminating the night without killing it.

L'article propose une exploration des nuits de tous les jours. Il teste l'hypothèse contre-intuitive et paradoxale de l'existence d'un quotidien dans des nuits par nature extraordinaires, à partir des modes de vie de quelques figures particulières. Plus largement, il ouvre la réflexion sur la construction d'un quotidien hors de son oekoumène, comme condition même de l'habiter la nuit et effort constant dans un contretemps physiologique et social.
Mots-clés : nuit, quotidien, condition nocturne, habiter, modes de vie

Pendant des années, on a rappelé que la première liberté supprimée par les autorités en cas de crise était celle de circuler la nuit. On citait les coups d’État, les guerres ou les mesures d’exception accompagnant certaines manifestations altermondialistes comme le sommet de Seattle. C’était toujours loin, dans un autre contexte ou avant. Jamais ici et maintenant, en France, en 2020-2021. La crise sanitaire aura eu raison de ces fragiles certitudes. Dans un premier temps, les mesures sanitaires prises par les autorités ont beaucoup concerné la nuit, ses acteurs et ses pratiquants, impactant fortement l’économie du secteur, la culture nocturne, nos modes de vie et la fonction même de la ville comme lieu de maximisation des interactions. Dans un second temps, le couvre-feu s’est imposé sans grande résistance afin de permettre de freiner la propagation du virus.

La pandémie du Covid-19 met les nuits urbaines à l’épreuve. Il suffisait pendant le confinement d’arpenter les rues de nos villes, vides, sombres et silencieuses, pour mesurer l’ampleur du sinistre. Très touchée, la nuit apparaît pourtant comme la grande oubliée du déconfinement. En France, les professionnels ont noté que le gouvernement “avait fait de nombreuses annonces concernant les différents secteurs de l’économie sans mentionner le monde de la nuit qui représente pourtant 100 000 salariés et 2 milliards d’euros de chiffre d’affaires(1).” La crise a lourdement fragilisé ces acteurs économiques et culturels avec un risque pour la dynamique nocturne, pour le tourisme, mais aussi pour l’urbanité, c’est-à-dire pour nos capacités à vivre ensemble dans les villes.

L'article montre la montée en puissance de la nuit comme champ de recherche interdisciplinaire (night studies). Cherchant à dépasser la mise en équation de la nuit, il met en évidence les apports de son exploration pour le jour comme la désorientation positive et l'apprentissage d'une pensée nuitale permettant de gérer les contradictions d'une société hypermoderne. Compétence de tout le monde et de personne, la nuit urbaine oblige à l'échange et à la coopération et permet d'intégrer les questions de vie quotidienne et les dimensions sensibles. Cet espace-temps peu exploré est propice à l'innovation dans les méthodes et les outils de recherche comme dans les politiques publiques. La nuit permet également d'ouvrir quelques chantiers prospectifs plus larges autour des notions de citoyenneté et de gouvernance temporaires et d'urbanisme des temps. Enfin, l'article invite à la fois à la poursuite de l'exploration et à la mesure : sans lumière pas de ville la nuit, mais trop de lumière tue.

The idea of publishing a special issue of Ethnologies around the theme of “nocturnal ethnographies” came as a need to answer some of the questions that arose while we were undertaking ethnographic fieldwork on the nocturnal hours in Cuba (Boudreault-Fournier and Diamanti 2018; Diamanti and Boudreault-Fournier 2021). As we were engaging with the night through our bodies, sound recorder and camera, we came to ask ourselves a series of questions which are reflected in this issue: How do ethnographers conduct research at and on night? Are there specific sensibilities linked to the segment of the 24-hour cycle that emerge when night falls? What sort of imaginaries and aesthetics do the nocturnal hours invoke? The articulated and rich responses that we gathered around these questions in the current issue testify to the urgent need to address them, especially in a field – social sciences – that has been historically tied to diurnal practices and day-centered methods (such as observation and visual methods that are so deeply linked to light and clear vision, see Diamanti and Boudreault-Fournier 2021). Moreover, the focus on the aesthetics and imaginaries of the night aims to bridge the social sciences and the humanities gap, in an attempt to enrich the discussion around sensory, creative and interdisciplinary methods. The eleven contributions to this issue reflect on how the imaginaries and the aesthetics of the night affect the work and methods of ethnographers, their fieldwork experiences and their approaches, as well as humans and more-than-humans alike inhabiting the night. By adopting such a lens, we recognize the affective and performative dimension of the imaginaries of the night and the relational quality of its aesthetics.

explores mechanisms for generating possibility within nocturnal urban landscapes situated in Limerick, Ireland, and Paris, France, with the aim of moving beyond the scope of entertainment venues by proposing a wakeful city to explore interventions in mobility, temporary installations, community participation and the reuse of emptied structures.

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Expressions, Research, Orientations: Sexuality Studies and Fringe Urban Narratives present this joint international conference that explores interdisciplinary approaches to Night Studies, with a particular focus on urban environments. Our conference builds on recent scholarship on the urban night in multiple cultural contexts and explores its intersections with Sexuality Studies.

Originally published in 2020 in the French journal Jef Klak: Revue de Critique Sociale et d'Expérience Littéraire as "'Banlieue is the New Cool': Grand Paris et Instrumentalisation des Musiques Électroniques", this article examines the 2010s electronic dance music boom in Paris. At the beginning of the decade, a set of public and private institutional actors agreed on the implementation of nightlife policies. Following the principles of the creative city, these have facilitated the development of festive activity particularly as deployed in the Parisian banlieues. Unfortunately, this boom has not avoided forms of instrumentalization of culture, sometimes closely accompanying the urban policies that prepare the Grand Paris planning project.

A proposta deste ensaio é analisar a significação da noite como espaço-tempo social em filmes brasileiros realizados ao final da década de 2010. Para além da expressividade e simbologia negativas da treva, costumeiras na iconografia do cinema, busca-se investigar de que modo a noite articula-se a questões políticas. O enfoque recai sobre a sujeição da experiência social do trabalhador aos períodos diurno e noturno, em Arábia (Affonso Uchôa e João Dumans, 2017), o papel da escuridão num testemunho de violência policial, em Sete anos em maio (Affonso Uchôa, 2019), e o lugar da noite no contexto de militância, em Conte isso àqueles que dizem que fomos derrotados (Pedro Maia de Brito, Cristiano Araújo, Camila Bastos, Aiano Bemfica, 2018). A análise privilegia o entendimento político das obras a partir de suas invenções formais, notadamente na narrativa e na plasticidade da imagem.

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A pandemia provocada pelo Novo Coronavírus (Sars-Cov-2) impôs uma série de transformações no que tange à s relações econômicas, políticas e sociais ao redor do globo. No Brasil, a partir de março de 2020, as orientações das diferentes esferas de governo, ainda que muitas vezes marcadas por certo descompasso, sinalizaram para medidas de distanciamento e/ou isolamento social. Especificamente no município do Rio de Janeiro, objeto de análise neste estudo, o cumprimento dessas diretrizes se dera de forma distinta nos territórios. Neste artigo, busca-se compreender em que medida as dinâmicas territoriais de contaminação e morte pela Covid-19 no município carioca auxiliam na compreensão de aspectos sociais de diferenciação e desigualdade na cidade.

Glavni zadatak ovog rada bio je upoznati se s radom Lua skriptnog jezika i proširiti program napisan u C++ jeziku tako da može izvoditi Lua skripte. U prvom dijelu rada općenito su opisani skriptni jezici te je navedeno koje vrste postoje i kako se koriste. Nakon toga je opisan Lua skriptni jezik, osnove rada sa njime, najpoznatije biblioteke te primjena skripta u popularnim programima današnjice. Za kraj je objašnjena instalacija Lua jezika u Visual studio te napisana dva programa, jedan jednostavniji, koji poziva Lua skriptu i vraća rezultat, a drugi složeniji, koji šalje varijable u Lua skriptu i vraća varijable nazad u C++ nakon obavljene operacije nad njima.The main taks of this final paper was to learn the basics of Lua scripting language and to extend the functionality of C++ applications by embedding Lua script language. The first part of this paper is comprised of descriptions of scripting laguages and types available. Next, this paper describes Lua scripting language, the ...

Naviguant entre memoire et histoire, nation et nationalisme, le Front national multiplie les hold-up symboliques puisant dans un fonds delaisse par les partis traditionnels. La confiscation du drapeau national semble deja acquise. En quelques annees, ce mecanisme machiavelique a transforme tout citoyen francais hissant un drapeau tricolore en sympathisant du front national. Il est temps d'ouvrir le debat afin de reaffirmer ou de redefinir certaines notions comme celles de Nation ou de Republique. L'extreme droite ne progresse pas seulement en attisant le malheur, elle profite egalement de l'immense vide du debat politique. Il est tout aussi dangereux de ne pas donner un sens a l'Europe qui se construit. Le projet economique seul n'est pas porteur de sens.

3rd International Conference of NITE team: HERA-funded project on Night Spaces: migration, culture and integration in Europe.
Co-organized with Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, Seger Kersbergen, Maxime Schut, Angel Perazzetta (Leiden University).

This introduction provides an overview of this Special Issue: 'Night Stories: Urban Narratives of the Migrant Lives in Europe', which originates from work undertaken within the collaborative HERA-funded research project 'Night spaces: Migration, culture and integration in Europe' (NITE). It argues that experiences and representations of the urban night are often overlooked in Humanities research. It contends that understandings of this overlooked dimension of the urban night can provide important and more nuanced insights into questions of migration. It surveys the collection of academic and artistic contributions to the Special Issue, which provides a transdisciplinary survey on the storytelling that emerges from diverse experiences of migration and their connections to the urban night.

This article discusses the significance of night-time spaces associated with the Cape Verdean community in Rotterdam, home to the third largest Cape Verdean diaspora in the world. Through interdisciplinary approaches including interviews with key figures in music production and nightlife, mapping of key historical and contemporary sites, and close analysis of artefacts and music lyrics, this article considers how music practices of huge historical and cultural significance have been deeply embedded in the night-time cartography of the city. Following Doreen Massey's formulations, it considers urban space as a mobile junction of historical, sociopolitical and cultural layers, in constant transformation, and argues that night-time spaces were, and continue to be, integral to the development of a political-cultural consciousness among the Cape Verdean community in Rotterdam, in colonial and postcolonial contexts. These discussions are also relevant given current debates on the value of the 'night-time economy' in Rotterdam's post-industrial landscape.