“…This multidisciplinary interest emerged out of a nuanced set of investigations exploring contrasting features and issues constituting the geographies of the urban night, such as gender perspectives on nocturnal mobilities (Bernard‐Hohm & Raibaud, 2012; Lieber, 2011), night work (Macarie, 2017; Menoux, 2017), artificial lighting (Giordano & Crozat, 2017), the interplay between tourism and the night (Giordano et al., 2018; Giordano & Ong, 2017) and the gentrification of the urban night (Jeanmougin, 2018). Furthermore, the commitment to collecting papers for special issues (Gwiazdzinski et al., 2018; Jeanmougin & Giordano, 2020) and collective volumes (Guérin et al., 2018; Gwiazdzinski et al., 2020) reveals the vitality of the French‐speaking scene related to night studies and relevant trends in developing lines of research, such as conflict management and nocturnal governance (Defrance, 2020; Giordano & Gomes, 2020; Spanu & Mokhnachi, 2018), illegal and festive dimensions of night space–times (Grondeau & Dourthe, 2018, 2020; Pourtau, 2009), sleep and dreams (Cecconi, 2020; Galinier et al., 2010), specificities of African nights (Bonte, 2017, 2020; Fouquet, 2020) and darkness (Vincent, 2020).…”