“Nessun decoro sui nostri corpi”: sicurezza, produzione di margini e movimenti indecoros*

Tulumello, Simone; Bertoni, Fabio

doi:10.13133/2532-6562_3.5.14561

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“…Despite their contextual diversities, since the 2000s, cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Rome have experienced an intensification of punitive containment strategies against street sex workers (Motterle, 2020;Olcuire, 2019), informal street vendors (Espinosa, 2021;Harney, 2004) and, more generally, precarious users who live the night to work, play, rest or escape. A set of local regulations has been designed in these cities to prevent 'uncivil', 'indecorous' or 'immoral' behaviour in public spaces (Tulumello and Bertoni, 2019;Vartabedian, 2011). Building upon these local regulations, national security policies have amplified the capability of the police force as well as bureaucratic sanctions against these 'deviant' practices in both public and private spaces based on a reified securitised discourse.…”

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The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective

Aramayona,

Guarneros-Meza

2023

Urban Studies

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During the last three decades, nightlife policies in Southern European cities have been directed towards promoting the night as a space–time for tourism-oriented promotion. At the same time, highly precarious, often racialised migrant actors performing informal activities during the night have been (re-)criminalised, put under surveillance and persecuted by public discourse and policy-making. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the centrality of ‘the night’ as a fundamental cornerstone for urban governance. However, analysis of how debates on urban nightlife dialogue with frameworks on urban in/formality, security and governance during the day require a more systematic analysis. In this commentary, we call into question the role of the in/formal urban night in ordering neoliberal cities in Southern Europe. By focussing on informal workers during the night as exemplar cases of how in/formal nocturnal governance is produced, we propose an approach to incorporate deeper explorations in future nightlife studies along three avenues: (i) contradictory public discourses encompassed by ‘the night’, and how they are affected by long-term cultural, neo-colonial legacies and ‘darkness’ archetypes; (ii) survival and resistance strategies conducted by precarious/subaltern nocturnal actors during the day and night; and (iii) urban governance arrangements shaping and being shaped by the in/formal night in contemporary ‘Fortress Europe’. The research agenda suggested in this critical commentary aims to be a provocation, not only for nightlife scholars, but also for broader urban studies to take into deeper consideration how the criminalisation of ‘In/formal Nocturnal Cities’ is used in governance processes in contemporary (post-)pandemic cities.

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