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An exploratory ethnography of the new tourist nightlife in Bairro Alto, Lisbon
Nofre, J.; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Galavielle, J. M. P.In a highly tourism-dependent country such as Portugal, Lisbon’s city council has allowed the opening of new tourism-oriented nightlife venues in the old historical neighborhood of Bairro Alto despite the local legislative prohibition passed in 2014. Based on an exploratory ethnography conducted between October 2022 and October 2024, this article unveils how these venues foster a nightlife scene steeped in patr...
Navigating between resistance and unintentional collaboration: The role of left...
Santos, P.; Malet Calvo, D.; Nofre, J.This article explores the ambivalent role of a grassroots cultural and activist association and its forced displacement between two districts as a result of the rapidly advancing frontier of gentrification in the city of Lisbon (Portugal). Strong institutional and private pressures led to the eviction of the association from its former location in the now gentrified Bairro Alto and its relocation to Intendente,...
Cultural placemaking in the black suburbs of the tourist city
Raposo, O.; Nofre, J.This article examines how non-institutional(ized) street art tours and DIY parties in two racialized, lower-class neighborhoods in the outskirts of Lisbon generate different results. In the neighborhood of Quinta do Mocho, these street art tours and DIY parties arise as playfulness and multicultural experiences of opening up the communities to local white middle-class visitors and tourists. In the neighborhood ...
A century of queerness after dark: A socio-historical review of lesbian, gay, b...
Pires, C.; Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Gomes, F. C.; Nofre, J.This article intends to explore the dynamic interplay between queer nightlife, societal changes, and drug use over the last century in Portugal by taking Lisbon as a case study as well as selecting critical historical periods, namely the Ann´ees Folles of the 1920s; the authoritarian Estado Novo (1926-75); the post-revolution phase (1975-2000), and the first two decades of the new millennium (2000-2020). The art...
Cuando se enfría la noche: Sobre la turistificación del antiguo barrio rojo de ...
Garcia Ruiz, M.; Costa, G. T.; Nofre, J.Este artículo examina los impactos espaciales, sociales, simbólicos y patrimoniales derivados de la expansión de la vida nocturna orientada al turismo en Cais do Sodré, el antiguo barrio rojo de Lisboa (Portugal). Tras una breve contextualización geohistórica, el artículo presenta una etnografía crítica realizada entre enero de 2020 y junio de 2024. A la presentación de las cartografías cambiantes de la vida no...
Unveiling the intersections between tourism industry and student mobility
Malet Calvo, D.; Nofre, J.; Sánchez Fuarros, Í.Previous studies have shown how student circuits of consumption are mediated by the interest of commercial actors. However, little attention has been paid to the connections between international student stays and the tourism sector: how they intersect with each other? Our fieldwork in Lisbon (Portugal) showed the central role of student organizations in commercializing the leisure time of international student...
The future of nighttime tourism: More than challenges
Nofre, J.; Garcia Ruiz, M.According to the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), an estimated 975 million tourists travelled internationally between January and September 2023, being on track to recover almost 90% of pre-pandemic levels. In a growing number of tourism destinations (especially cities, and coastal and insular destinations), nightlife, including music, cultural or light festivals, is an increasingly impo...
Introduction: The multiple facets of nighttime tourism
Garcia Ruiz, M.; Nofre, J.Cities at night are glowing again after a three-year pandemic period characterized by the application of massive lockdowns, night curfews, social distancing, mandatory home confinements, and a strong punitive criminalization of the institutional-media-civic front against “the night” and the youth (Nofre et al., 2023a, 2023b). A simple glance at the development of the nocturnal city and its growing relationship ...
The urban ecological transition and the future of Europe’s nightlife industry
Nofre, J.; Garcia-Ruiz, M.The current climate emergency and the emergence of a stagflation scenario in Europe have revealed the scarce presence of environmental and resilience-related goals not only in the economic and financial viability plans of the nightlife industry but also in the different tools of nightlife governance already introduced in some European cities. In fact, the recovery and resilience plans of more than a third of th...
Una aproximación geográfica a los impactos de la turistificación del ocio noctu...
Nofre, J.; Martins, J.; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Costa, G.A lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, la expansión de la economía del ocio nocturno orientada al turismo ocurrida en un número significativo de ciudades europeas puede ser vista - simultáneamente - como resultado y causa de la rápida e intensa turistificación de sus respectivas áreas urbanas centrales. A su vez, lo que podríamos denominar como turistificación de ‘la noche’ ha conllevado sin duda alguna la apar...