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Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
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Research @CIES_Iscte #LightFestivals · #NightStudies ·Arts, Culture & Urban #Sociology · #MixMethods
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...
www.elgaronline.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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
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
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📢 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 (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
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
August 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🎉 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
July 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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!
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
📢 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
July 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🚨 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
June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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
June 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
May 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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
April 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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
April 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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!
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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.
April 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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
April 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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
March 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨 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...
February 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚖🌙 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
February 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🌙 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!
January 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
January 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
January 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📢 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
December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM