Venice Nightscapes

Consuming, Living, Narrating
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-07054-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

This book rethinks the urban night through an interdisciplinary exploration of Venice’s nighttime economies, social practices and cultural narratives. Interpreting nightscapes as lived, contested and imaginative spaces, the book introduces the ‘genius noctis’ – a critical lens for engaging with the identity of the nocturnal city.

Bridging Southern European perspectives with international night studies scholarship, local nightscapes emerge as complex geographical phenomena, resulting from the dynamic interplay of historical and contemporary experiences. This inquiry considers the multiple interdependencies among dominant narratives and alternative understandings while emphasising the roles of darkness in shaping local nightlife ecosystems and urban identities. Aiming at providing hybrid and creative methodologies for the study of urban nights, the analysis interweaves cultural geography, urban studies and literary theory.

This book resonates with researchers and students across cultural geography, urban studies, mobility studies, anthropology and environmental humanities – particularly those investigating nightscapes, Mediterranean urban cultures or interdisciplinary place-based inquiry.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomasella, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Venice And The Urban Night Part 1: Consuming Venice's Urban Night 1. Inventing The Local NTE: The Coming Of Age Of Contemporary Urban Night 2. Setting Boundaries: Rules And Regulations Shaping Venice's Urban Night 3. Conflating Contrasting Needs: Nightscapes Between Neoliberalism And The (Post)Pandemic Part 2: Living For The Night 4. Let's Go Out Tonight: Individual And Collective Nocturnal Practices 5. When Night Falls And Lights Are Low: The Normative Body Regulating Nocturnal Practices 6. Recounting Night Strolls: Post-Representational Mapping Of Nightscapes Part 3: Narrating Local Nightscapes 7. Did You Hear About Last Night? Journalistic Narratives Of The Urban Night 8. "It Was A Dark And Stormy Night": Themes And Tropes In Literary Narratives Of The Urban Night 9. On A Winter's Night: Navigating Venice Literary Nightscapes Conclusion: Genius Loci, Genius Noctis

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Tomasella is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA), University of Padova, Italy. His research explores urban cultural phenomena – with particular focus on night studies, literary approaches to the city and tourism governance, especially in Venice. Currently, he is investigating strategies for deterring undesired tourist flows and mobilities. He has published on topics ranging from urban nights to place-making practices in historic cities.