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Night Spaces is an international research project to study how night spaces are produced, imagined, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in eight European cities.
Overview
Night Spaces is an international research project awarded a €1m Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) grant to study how night spaces are produced, imagined, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in eight European cities. The project will see collaboration across an international team of researchers, led by Dr Sara Brandellero (Leiden University).
Night spaces: migration, culture and IntegraTion in Europe (NITE) will entail an ambitious programme of community co-designed cultural events and activities, and close engagement with policymakers, with the aim to positively influence policy approaches on night-time economies, helping to release the potential night spaces offer in creating more inclusive cities.
Authorities have historically wrestled with the issue of night-time control, and the hours after dark are often still perceived as harbouring threats to public order and potential criminality. However, current policy attention to night-time urban economies, exemplified by the creation of the office of Night Mayor in Amsterdam (2014) and Night Czar in London (2016) illustrate the increasing interest in the potentialities of the urban night. NITE will contribute with otherwise overlooked evidence on the production, experience and narration of migrant urban night spaces, in their material, symbolic and virtual dimensions.
The project brings together five parallel subprojects mapping night spaces in eight cities in the Netherlands, Ireland, UK, Germany, Denmark and Portugal.
With migration a defining characteristic of contemporary urban life, key and often polarising in current policy, political and public debates in Europe, NITE aims to support community wellbeing and better integration at local, national and transnational levels.
NITE formally commenced in 2019, with a kick-off meeting generously supported by the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst, one of NITE’s Associate Partners.
- People
Professor Ben Campkin
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- External partners
Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK)
