LXnights - Pensar criticamente a noite de Lisboa

12 publications in 12 months. Not bad. At LXNIGHTS, we continue to open new research lines and delve deeper into those we have been investigating for some time. Here follows the list of our latest publications over the past 12 months:

Aramayona, B. (2025). Darkening informalised workers: moral geographies and in/visibilisation of transnational migrants in Spain. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(4), 892-911. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13328

Costa, G., & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2025). The Taxi Driver And The City. (Post)Pandemic Navigations Of Lisbon. An Ethnography Approach Of The Night Appropriation. In A. Bednarczyk, K. Kajdanek, & R. Carvalho, R. (Eds), Crisis, conflict and celebration. Ethnographic studies of European Cities (pp.57-87). Palgrave Macmillan.

De Dominicis, C., Garcia-Ruiz, M., & Freitas, M. R. de (2026). Música ao vivo e transformação urbana em Lisboa: entre resistência cultural e turistificação. Plataforma Barómetro Social https://www.barometro.com.pt/2026/01/06/musica-ao-vivo-e-transformacao-urbana-em-lisboa-entre-resistencia-cultural-e-turistificacao/

Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. Light festivals in Portugal: nightlife, tourism, and culture". Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 24, (1), 135-148. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2026.24.009

Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2026). Lights that gather: Attendance motivations and emotions in light festivals as night-time practices". Sociológica Mexico, 41, 49-89. https://doi.org/10.24275/OZDB1321

Mazorra, A., Nofre, J. & García-Ruiz, M. (2025). Gentrification and touristification in Lavapiés: Causes and consequences of a unique interplay in today's Southern Europe. Epub ahead of print. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2473956

Mazorra, Á., Nofre, J., & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2025). The brand-making of Madrid Global City from the old historic neighborhood of Lavapiés: a diachronic genealogy of urban policies. European Planning Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2537339

Nofre, J., Garcia-Ruiz, M., & Galavielle, J. (2025). An exploratory ethnography of the new tourist nights in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. Epub ahead of print. http://doi.org/10.1007/s41978-025-00186-4

Nofre, J., Martins, J. C., Garcia-Ruiz, M. & Teixeira Costa, G. (2025). From gentrification to touristification in the night of a former red-light district: Impacts on tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Cais do Sodré, Lisbon. In M. Gravari-Barbas & S. Guinard (Eds.), Handbook of Tourism and Gentrification (pp. 446-463). Routledge.

Nofre, J., Mazorra, Á., & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2026). The implementation of the 15-minute city model in Barcelona and the decline of the city’s nightlife industry. Sociológica México, 41, 235-274. https://doi.org/10.24275/QMXA8757

Puig Guisado, J. (2025). Yo confieso, nosotros denunciamos: culpa y revelación en la poética nocturna de Octavio Paz.Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v27n2.119524

Vale Pires, C., Garcia-Ruiz, M., Couto Gomes, F., & Nofre, J. (2025). A century of q***rness after dark: A socio-historical review of le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender and q***r nights in Lisbon (1920-2020). Sexualities, 28(4), 1686-1704. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241287425

CFP is open!!! 7th International Conference on Night Studies, "Horizons, Dimensions, Atmospheres", October 7-9, 2026 (online).

It is a great joy to see that the work carried out year after year is bearing fruit in the consolidation of this wonderful initiative for the academic debate in the field of Night Studies, which is resulting from thee collaboration between the International Night Studies Network and my research group, LXNights Research Group Eternally grateful, Manuel García Ruiz, for your energy and for your absolutely professional and invaluable work.

The 7th International Conference on Night Studies is supported by my research centre, CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar em Ciências Sociais, my faculty NOVA FCSH, and two Portuguese leading higher education and research centers, namely the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE), and the Institute of Sociology – University of Porto (ISUP).

Abstracts deadline: 30 March 2026
Full Call for Papers: https://lnkd.in/dhg-VxYk
Conference website: https://icnslx.com/

Invitamos a la conferencia "La turistificación del ocio nocturno y sus impactos en el patrimonio intangible de la Noche", con Jordi Nofre Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, en el marco del seminario "Estudios sobre la Noche"
📅⏰Miércoles 1° de octubre, 10 h
📌Sala de conferencias "Mónica Verea", piso 7 de la Torre II de Humanidades
🔴Transmisión : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUnbmiQI90

Call for Chapters – The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities

Edited by Jordi Nofre & Manuel García Ruiz
Abstract Deadline: 10 October 2025

The International Night Studies Network and LXNIGHTS Research Group are thrilled to announce the call for chapters for The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities, a forthcoming volume that aims to offer a globally informed, interdisciplinary, and critical perspective on urban life after dark. From governance and infrastructure to culture, care, resistance, and affect—how do cities transform once the sun sets?

We welcome empirical and conceptual contributions across disciplines and geographies.

🔗 More info:

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 long evaded the analytical centrality granted to its daytime counterpart. Despite the profou...