Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters After Dusk

Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions.

Sara Brandellero is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She explores cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking world, with a particular focus on Brazil. Between 2019-2022 she was Project Leader of the European project Night Spaces: migration, culture and integration in Europe (NITE). Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She was a co-investigator in the HERA-funded grant ＂Night Spaces: Migration, Culture, and Integration in Europe＂ and is currently leading the ERC project ＂City Tales: An Art-Based Participatory Framework for Studying Migration-Related Diversity＂. Derek Pardue is author of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop (Palgrave McMillan, 2008/2011), Cape Verde, Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal (University of Illinois Press 2015) and Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Bloomsbury 2021). He is an Associate Professor in the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University, Denmark.