Sara Brandellero is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She explores cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking world, with a particular focus on Brazil. Between 2019-2022 she was Project Leader of the European project Night Spaces: migration, culture and integration in Europe (NITE). Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She was a co-investigator in the HERA-funded grant "Night Spaces: Migration, Culture, and Integration in Europe" and is currently leading the ERC project "City Tales: An Art-Based Participatory Framework for Studying Migration-Related Diversity". Derek Pardue is author of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop (Palgrave McMillan, 2008/2011), Cape Verde, Let's Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal (University of Illinois Press 2015) and Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Bloomsbury 2021). He is an Associate Professor in the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University, Denmark.

List of Illustrations, Introduction by Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, I Urban Policy, (Self-)Governance and Infrastructures of the Night, 1: 'Dark Practices: Sensing the City After Dusk' by Nick Dunn, 2: 'Spaces to Cope, to Connect and to Relax for Refugee Youth' by Ilse van Liempt, 3: 'Queer Spheres: Making and Un-making Worlds and Nations through London's LGBTQ+ Night Spaces' by Ben Campkin, 4: 'Planning for Nocturnal Cultural Encounters' by Marion Roberts, 5: 'A Nightnography of Food Couriers: Precarity and Inequality in After Dark Platform Work' by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie, 6: 'Transformers of the Urban Night: Platform Work, Migration and Smart City' by Laura-Solmaz Litschel, 7: 'Digital Day Labourers - Sleepless in the Gig Economy. Photo Essay' - fieldwork photo essay by Laura-Solmaz Litschel, II Cultural Narratives and Experiences of the Diverse Urban Nightlife, 8: 'Pandemic Dusks' by Derek Pardue, 9: 'Spaces of Night-Time Encounter: Nocturnal Politics in Global Cinema, 2018-2022' by Will Straw, 10: 'Music within Nocturnal Constellations: A Photo Essay from Two Irish Cities' by Ailbhe Kenny & Katie Young, 11: '(De)migrant(izing) Music Nights: Intergenerational Cultural Flows and Transnational Belonging in the Rotterdam Cabo Verdean Diaspora' by Seger Kersbergen and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, 12: 'Tejo Bar: A Portal for the Cosmopolitics of Musicking' by Alcides J.D. Lopes, 13: 'Night Spaces as Terreiros: The Case of Amsterdam's Theatre Munganga as Ground for Intercultural Citizenship' by Sara Brandellero and Francianne dos Santos Velho, 14: 'Let's Night Draw! Darkness and Light in the Urban Night' - by Chantal Meng, III 'Contested Cities: Afterword' by Adam Eldridge, Index