Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
Research @CIES_Iscte #LightFestivals · #NightStudies ·Arts, Culture & Urban #Sociology · #MixMethods
Manuel García Pelayo, prominent Spanish political scientist and jurist. He was the founder of the modern Department of Political Science of the Central University of Venezuela and was elected President of the Constitutional Court of Spain in 1980. .. more
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www.elgaronline.com
New chapter alert
“The touristification of Lisbon’s nightlife: impacts on the tangible and the intangible cultural heritage”
Published in the Handbook on Tourism Gentrification @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
With Jordi Nofre, João Carlos Martins & @guitscosta.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
“The touristification of Lisbon’s nightlife: impacts on the tangible and the intangible cultural heritage”
Published in the Handbook on Tourism Gentrification @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
With Jordi Nofre, João Carlos Martins & @guitscosta.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Call for Papers: After Dark – Exploring Nighttime Tourism in Tourism Geographies (Special Issue)
Guest Editors:Dr. Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (ISCTE–IUL, Portugal)Coordinator of the International Night Studies NetworkManuel_Ruiz@iscte-iul.pt Dr. Jordi Nofre (NOVA FCSH, Portugal)Coordinator of the LXNIGHT...
nightologists.hypotheses.org
Call for Papers | After Dark: Exploring Nighttime Tourism
Special Issue of Tourism Geographies (tourismgeographies.bsky.social)
eds. Manuel García-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & Jordi Nofre.
🕐 Abstracts due 15 Nov 2025
nightologists.hypotheses.org/2734
Special Issue of Tourism Geographies (tourismgeographies.bsky.social)
eds. Manuel García-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & Jordi Nofre.
🕐 Abstracts due 15 Nov 2025
nightologists.hypotheses.org/2734
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Oct 12
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
📢 CFP Extension
The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities ed. Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & #JordiNofre
Deadline extended to 15 Nov 2025 🗓️
Exploring the atmospheres, inequalities & transformations of cities after dark
nightologists.hypotheses.org/2938
The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities ed. Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & #JordiNofre
Deadline extended to 15 Nov 2025 🗓️
Exploring the atmospheres, inequalities & transformations of cities after dark
nightologists.hypotheses.org/2938
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
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
Alan Lester
@alanlester.bsky.social
· Sep 15
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
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.
Great exchanges on how the night reshapes our urban and cultural landscapes.
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
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
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
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Jul 25
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
🎉 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
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
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
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
📢 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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Apr 16
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
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
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
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!
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!
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.
Thanks to the students for their great engagement and to Sana Benbeli for the warm welcome and support.
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
Grateful to Sana Benbeli for her trust and long-standing collaboration.
#NightStudies #SociologieDeLaNuit
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Mar 20
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
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...
A huge thanks to my co-authors @alvaromazorra.bsky.social & Jordi Nofre
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
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...
📢 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...
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
🚖🌙 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...
@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...
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!
"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!
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
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
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
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
"When the Night Cools Down: On the Touristification of the Former Red-Light District of Cais do Sodré"
Read it here 👉 bit.ly/4gI803u
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
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...
www.youtube.com
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!
www.youtube.com/@icnslx
Don’t miss this opportunity to revisit these inspiring talks!
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Nov 22
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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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
This hybrid congress will feature groundbreaking research on nocturnal politics, society, and ecology.
Abstracts due Feb 10!
Discover more: bit.ly/3OkFgl5
#NightStudies #NozBreizh
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Thrilled to join the 13th Talkfest - Music Fest Summit on 21/03/2025 at Hotel Meliá Lisboa Aeroporto!
🎶 I'll be sharing some insights on cultural management alongside amazing speakers.
More info: talkfest.eu
#Talkfest2025 #MusicFestSummit
🎶 I'll be sharing some insights on cultural management alongside amazing speakers.
More info: talkfest.eu
#Talkfest2025 #MusicFestSummit
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
@vanhoben.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Manuel García-Ruiz
The 13th International Conference on Nightlife, Substance Use and Related Health Issues. The conference brings together a range of experts on protecting and promoting health in nightlife settings.
theclubhealthconference.com
Proud to announce that I will be one of the keynote speakers at the @ClubHconference in Ghent, 2025. Excited to contribute to discussions on nightlife, public health, and tourism!
#ClubHealth2025 #NightStudies
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#ClubHealth2025 #NightStudies
theclubhealthconference.com/speakers/67-...