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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · 7d

Nightlife is not just leisure—it’s survival, memory & resistance.

Join us for “Night Is Not a Luxury: Queer Survival, Music, and Urban Struggle”

📅 Oct 11, 2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:00
@milisboa

📍 Sala dos Fornos, Beato Innovation District

More info: bit.ly/42VZZDq

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23d

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

www.stuarthallfoundation.org

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Sep 4

Honored to present “Behind the Scenes of the Light: Ethnography of Nighttime Work in Festivals” at Espacialidades: Espacios, Tiempos y Noches Sociales at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico)

Great exchanges on how the night reshapes our urban and cultural landscapes.

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Aug 4

CFP - The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities

Critical takes on the night as urban space-time: governance, labour, care, resistance, aesthetics.

🗓️Abstract Deadline: 10 Oct 2025

🔗 nightologists.hypotheses.org/2938

#NocturnalCities #NightStudies #UrbanSociology #CallForChapters

The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities (to be published in mid-2027).

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 lon...

nightologists.hypotheses.org

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎉 New publication!

Proud to share our latest paper:
"The brand-making of Madrid Global City from the old historic neighbourhood of Lavapiés"

📝 ‪@alvaromazorra.bsky.social‬, Nofre & Garcia-Ruiz
📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0965...

#UrbanStudies #Madrid #Lavapiés

The brand-making of Madrid Global City from the old historic neighbourhood of Lavapiés: a diachronic genealogy of urban policies

The transformation of Madrid (Spain) from a small town in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula into a global financial, economic and political hub in the Ibero-American context in less than a centur...

doi.org

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jul 18

Honoured to be part of the newly elected team of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) for 2025–2027. Looking forward to contributing to our vibrant sociological community!

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jul 11

📢 New publication alert!

Excited to share our latest article, just published in the
International Journal Sociology of Leisure

"An Exploratory Ethnography of the New Tourist Nightlife in Bairro Alto, Lisbon" by Jordi Nofre, Manuel García Ruiz, and Juliette Galavielle.

doi.org/10.1007/s419...

An Exploratory Ethnography of the New Tourist Nightlife in Bairro Alto, Lisbon - International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure

International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure - In a highly tourism-dependent country such as Portugal, Lisbon’s city council has allowed the opening of new tourism-oriented nightlife...

doi.org

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 CFP OUT NOW!

After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities & Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism @tourismgeographies.bsky.social

Guest editors: Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & Jordi Nofre

📅 Abstracts due: Nov 15, 2025
🔗 Full CFP: bit.ly/3T1NpNM
📎 Guidelines: bit.ly/4kNMX1M

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jun 4

Just featured in Gaceta UNAM!

My work on Mi-e dor de tine—a luminous installation exploring Romanian migrants' nostalgia and the night as a space of experience—is now part of the conversation.

📰 www.gaceta.unam.mx/con-instalac...

#MiEDorDeTine #NightStudies #LightArt #TransnationalEmotions

Con instalación luminosa, migrantes rumanos evocan la nostalgia por su tierra - Gaceta UNAM

"Mi-e-dor De Tine" ("Te echo de menos" en español), iluminan las noches en ciudades europeas o de América a sus ciudadanos que han dejado su lugar de origen

www.gaceta.unam.mx

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · May 4

Honoured to speak at the University of Algarve on “Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Nocturnal Cultural Events”

Thanks to Carmen Zita Monereo for the invitation!

We discussed light festivals, proximity tourism & the creative force of the night.

#CitiesAndCreativity #NightStudies #CulturalEvents

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Apr 17

Another piece about our work last week in Casablanca

30+ students exploring the city at night through sociology — and now it’s in the press

epaper.lematin.ma/assahraa/jou...

#NightStudies #UrbanSociology #Fieldwork #Casablanca

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just back from Casablanca where I co-taught a course on sociology of the night with Prof. Sana Benbelli at Hassan II Univ.

Night walks, sharp students, & lots to reflect on.

Happy that this work also caught the attention of the press

🔗 assahraa.ma/web/2025/182...

#NightStudies #UrbanSociology

إطلاق مشروع سوسيولوجي جديد يستكشف حياة مدينة الدارالبيضاء

أطلقت مجموعة من الأساتذة الجامعيين والطلبة والطالبات في علم الاجتماع عملية بحث علمية ميدانية ترمي إلى استكشاف جوانب العيش الاجتماعي في مدينة كبرى مثل الدار البيضاء خلال فترة الليل، بغاية تقديم قراءة ج...

assahraa.ma

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great pleasure to give the masterclass “Exploring the Urban Night: Qualitative Methods and Ethical Challenges” yesterday at INAU Rabat.

Thanks to Hind Ftouhi for the kind invitation — and well, it’s not every day you see your face on every bulletin board at the uni!

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Apr 5

This week I’m leading sessions on #NightStudies with the Master DIS students at LADSIS – Université Hassan II de Casablanca (UH2C).

Thanks to the students for their great engagement and to Sana Benbeli for the warm welcome and support.

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Apr 5

Honoured to give a talk at LADSIS – Université Hassan II de Casablanca (UH2C), titled Sociologie de la nuit : interactions, politiques publiques, culture et transformation urbaine.

Grateful to Sana Benbeli for her trust and long-standing collaboration.

#NightStudies #SociologieDeLaNuit

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thrilled to share our latest paper, "Gentrification and Touristification in Lavapiés: Causes and Consequences of a Unique Interplay in Today’s Southern Europe," at Journal of Urban Affairs!

A huge thanks to my co-authors @alvaromazorra.bsky.social & Jordi Nofre

Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0735...

Gentrification and touristification in Lavapiés: Causes and consequences of a unique interplay in today’s Southern Europe

This article aims to examine the current interplay between gentrification and extractivist touristification in the historical neighborhood of Lavapiés in Madrid (Spain), which is quite singular in ...

doi.org

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚨 On 21 February 2025, the Final Conference of the CrissCross Project takes place in Lisbon & online!

📢 Experts will discuss strategies for safer, more inclusive nightlife spaces. I will be closing the event, reflecting on key insights and future directions

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/CrissCrossEU...

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Feb 3

🚖🌙 Thrilled to share our latest work!

@guitscosta.bsky.social and I explore Lisbon’s night through the eyes of taxi drivers in our chapter The Taxi Driver and the City in Crisis, Conflict and Celebration (Palgrave Macmillan).

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Taxi Driver and the City: (Post) pandemic Navigations of Lisbon, an Ethnography of the Night Appropriation

This article explores the socioprofessional, spatial, and economic challenges face by Lisbon's night taxi drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a contextual overview of the pandemic'...

link.springer.com

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jan 28

🌙 Excited to share that I'll speak at the Night Studies Seminar!

"The Night as a Space of Experiences: Cultural Dynamics, Proximity Tourism, and Urban Transformation"

📅 Mar 13, 2025 | 10 AM (CDMX)
📍 CISAN, UNAM | 🔗 Live on YouTube

Thanks to Yolanda Macías & Alejandro Mercado for organizing!

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jan 20

Excited to announce the Call for Papers for the 6th International Conference on Night Studies (@icnslx)!

If your work explores the night in all its dimensions, we’d love to hear from you.

📝 Submit by April 15, 2025
📅 Join us online Oct 8-10, 2025
🔗http://icnslx.com

✨ #ICNS2025

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy to participate at the VII Trobada de Geografia Cultural: Anem de festa!

Presenting “The Many Invisible Faces of the Nocturnal Tourist City”

📍Universitat de les Illes Balears [@uib.cat]
📅 14 Feb 2025
🕙 9-13h CET
ℹ️ bit.ly/403xQbv

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Dec 20

📢 Excited to share my latest article in Estudios Turísticos (@Turespana_), co-authored with @guitscosta.bsky.social and #JordiNofre:

"When the Night Cools Down: On the Touristification of the Former Red-Light District of Cais do Sodré"

Read it here 👉 bit.ly/4gI803u

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Nov 26

Ohhh a pitty not having heard of this special issue before! Looking forward reading it soon tho

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Nov 23

As Main Chair of the 5th ICNSLX , I’m thrilled to announce that some sessions are now available on our official YouTube channel:

www.youtube.com/@icnslx

Don’t miss this opportunity to revisit these inspiring talks!

ICNS LX

The International Conference on Night Studies is an international event that aims to echo frontier research, artistic works and professional practices related to the study of the urban night in multip...

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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz @vanhoben.bsky.social · Nov 22

Happy to join the Scientific Committee for NozBreizh 2025!
This hybrid congress will feature groundbreaking research on nocturnal politics, society, and ecology.

Abstracts due Feb 10!

Discover more: bit.ly/3OkFgl5

#NightStudies #NozBreizh

International Congress Noz Breizh « Celebrating the night: three years of the Noz Breizh Chair»

March 27th, April 24th and May 15th, 2025, Université de Brest, France The nocturnal dimension of the city is inherent to our urban practices. The night, or nocturnal temporality (when natural light d...

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