Putting leisure to work: city image and representations of nightlife

Tender for the night: After-dark cultural complexities in the night-time economy

“…Yet, there is also evidence of the impact on late-trading venues in Newcastle, with a number either closing down or going into receivership as a result of restricted trading. It could be suggested that this outcome merely highlights that their business models have been based on socially damaging levels of high-volume and rapid consumption of alcohol, but it also demonstrates a reductionist focus on 'safety' and control at the expense of other dimensions of the nightlife complex previously considered of primary import, such as employment, external investment and city image (Bavinton 2010). The focus of our critique is the manner in which the approach to nightlife has alternated between stimulation-focused and control-order paradigms.…”

“…The explicit location of night-time economy policies within the tradition of culture-led regeneration models reveals the instrumentalization of culture at the heart of efforts to turn night-specific leisure and consumption towards urban renewal objectives (Bavinton 2010). Yet, the wholesale shift in urban renewal priorities towards landscapes of consumption means that there are now few non-commercial activities available in the city after dark beyond intermittent publicly underwritten events such as 820 D. Rowe and N. Bavinton open-air concerts and cultural festivals that themselves have strong commercial and quasi-commercial constituents.…”

Making sense of urban food festivals: cultural regeneration, disorder and hospitable cities

“…Our study responds to the call for 'greater interdisciplinarity' in 'the field of festival studies' (Getz, 2010: 1) by synthesizing approaches derived from food studies and from analyses of both urban disorder and the night-time economy (NTE). In this way, our research contributes to a developing problematization of urban reimaging processes (Bavinton, 2010). By demonstrating how notions of urban hospitality are not only mobilized by local governance, but lived and understood by city residents, we also nuance accounts of the hospitable city and the role of local people as 'hosts' (Bell, 2007b;Richter, 2010).…”

Só para o moço do corpo dourado do sol de Ipanema: distribuição espacial da economia noturna LGBT na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

“…Referente aos trabalhos sobre economia noturna, ainda é preciso ressaltar que ela foi objeto de inúmeros estudos efetuados em cidades de Estados desenvolvidos (BAVINTON, 2010;EVANS, 2012;ROWE;LYNCH, 2014;WOLIFSON;DROZ-DZEWSKI, 2016), mas pouco investigada em cidades de países emergentes, como as grandes metrópoles brasileiras. Entre essas metrópoles, destaca-se o Rio de Janeiro, na qual o entretenimento noturno é um campo de criação de patrimônios materiais e imateriais -tal campo, além de estimular novos compositores, músicos, intérpretes e DJs, entre outros, vem gerando renda para uma cadeia produtiva que engloba produtores culturais, gerentes operacionais, administradores, cozinheiros, garçons, técnicos de som e luz, recepcionistas, seguranças, assessores de imprensa, designers e também a empregos indiretos.…”

“…A oferta de lazeres noturnos (festas, festivais e shows de música e dança etc.) é fundamental, por exemplo, para a atração de turistas, em especial de jovens, como são os casos de Ibiza e Cancun (ALVES, 2009;BAVINTON, 2010).…”