http://hdl.handle.net/10071/57 2026-03-30T04:59:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24529 Título próprio: Proceedings. II International Conference on Night Studies Autoria: Garcia Ruiz, M.; Nofre, J. Resumo: Night Studies is a transdisciplinary field with works from different social and human sciences. Topics are very wide, and they cover a good number of geographical and social contexts, formal and informal practices, and behaviours. In this second edition, we pay attention to the current pandemic, but we encourage works reflecting on other issues related to the night. The current pandemic has highlighted the importance of invisible workers such as garbage collectors, transporters, emergency doctors and other professions who dedicate their nights to guarantee the well-being and the smooth functioning of life in society. But, it has also put other professionals related to the nightlife, food and beverage sector and workers in the cultural industry in check. With the emergency lockdown dictated by the different governments came the end of the social night. Consumption patterns changed, favouring the rise of a more precarious circular market. Job insecurity increased in every sector, but the industries associated with the night were devastated. The patrons of cultural activities turned to their online adaptations, as well as many arts and leisure professionals adapted their activity to streaming content (meanwhile, some were forced to change their profession or hibernate, waiting for the next night normality). The nights in the times of COVID-19 meant the reduction of the groups; and the physical distancing, digital proximity. However, some resistances have emerged, in form of informal gatherings occupying both public and private spaces during nighttime hours –e.g., raves, parallel party scenes or intimate parties between adults. Overnight enforcement, (bio)surveillance, and public security would gain new meaning during the pandemic. Also, this locked night required a new way for policing and managing the cities, finding different models and propositions. There are many different ways to approach the night and many issues that could be addressed in this conference. We invite all researchers, professionals, and artists to participate with their outstanding work. The 2nd International Conference on Night Studies was an international event that aimed to echo frontier research, artistic works and professional practices related to the study of the urban night in multiple contexts worldwide. This event aimed to be a platform for sharing ongoing or recent research, open a critical and interdisciplinary debate, and boost e-networking, bringing together academia and society. ICNS is a collaborative effort of the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), the Institute of Sociology – University of Porto (ISUP) and the LXNIGHTS Network. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20802 Título próprio: ICNS Proceedings Autoria: Garcia Ruiz, M.; Nofre, J. Resumo: The night has been the subject of multiple readings by the social and human sciences, as well as it has inspired multiple narratives throughout history, literature and popular culture. However, the study of nightlife, practices, and actors only gained attention in recent years. The appearance of “mayors of the night” with the intention of improving urban governance during this period and thus guaranteeing needs, rights and services is the result of a progressive change in the local political paradigm, which begins to face this space-time as a “new” opportunity for its economic, social and cultural development. We could say that the night and the activities that take place in it begin to be projected as forms of tourist attraction, whether for their leisure activities such as discos, parties or other forms of fun; or because of its cultural potential, such as the White Nights. Contemporary urban night implies having active professionals, capable of reacting to any incident, such as the case of health professionals, but also maintaining those professions – often illegal – that tend to be considered problematic or hidden as could be prostitution. Surveillance and control during this period is also a good example of active professions, such as the case of the police, surveillance companies, video-doorman, or firefighters. It has never been so easy to commute in the urban space, public transport normally meets the needs of users, and the emergence of new forms of transport resulting from the circular economy, both of people and goods, completes the demand, not without controversy. There are many different ways to approach the night, but here we collect some of the communications that participated during the I International Conference on Night Studies, that took place on-line, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 2 -4, 2020. These communications are also on-line on the official account of the conference. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17805 Título próprio: MetaCity: ways of thinking and making city Autoria: Santos, S.; Ferreira, A. C. Resumo: Metacity launched the challenge of reflecting on the ‘implicit’ and mostly ‘invisible’ drivers that influence urban transformation. The call asked participants to explore the nexus between scientific knowledge, political and economic actors and social mobilization in the production of contemporary urban space. Questions were raised: What concepts, methods and fields of knowledge – instituted or to be established – can and will inform urban development theory(s) and practice(s) in the near future? What types of urban knowledge are still considered legitimate and what is their relevance? How public policies, governance practices and development strategies had change cities and how can we re-think these instruments? What, after all, is the effective importance of political and social mobilization of urban scientists and technicians in the process of “making cities”? We were pleased to received several contributions from different disciplines and geographies that have shown these are cross-cutting issues on a global scale. Some of these contributions were collected in this book and we will briefly present their main subjects. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17804 Título próprio: FractalCity: the city amid policies Autoria: Colombo, A. Resumo: The track Fractalcity aim to reflect and discuss about the relationship between forms of governance and public policies, particularly in urban contexts. This debate was structured in a two-fold register. On one side, as national and international debate point out - both in the academic and grey literature - urban governance is a polysemic topic, that can be framed as a theory, a concept, or as a tool for public policies. On the other side, fractal city reflects the growing complexity of societal challenges, in between urban development paths of economic competition and unequal redistribution of territorial resources. Within this context, public policies are called to face these challenges, by acting in different levels of governance and involving multi-actor systems. However, public policies often produce or simply support disarticulated, contradictory and paradoxical urban scenarios, configuring themselves as (un)sustainable. Starting from these assumptions, this track discusses the role of diversified forms of organizational innovation, the importance of creating window of democratic opportunity and finally, as a consequence, the necessity to design and implement more adequate tools an instruments for urban and territorial management. On in all, this track call for the necessity of questioning the ‘meaning of existence’ of public policies in its relationship with the dimensions of contemporary urban complexity, in order to ensure a better quality of life and a more equal societal change. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z