
12 publications in 12 months. Not bad. At LXNIGHTS, we continue to open new lines of research and delve deeper into those we have been investigating for some time. This year, 2026, will be crucial in deciding the future of the LXNIGHTS Research Group, whose trajectory, as you can see from this list of publications from the last year as a mere example, has been exciting since its founding in July 20214. This year, 2026, will be crucial in deciding the future of LNXIGHTS Research Group, whose trajectory, as you can see from this list of publications from the last year as a mere example, has been exciting since its founding in July 20214. Here follows the list of our latest publications over the past 12 months:
- Aramayona, B. (2025). Darkening informalised workers: moral geographies and in/visibilisation of transnational migrants in Spain. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(4), 892-911. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13328
- Costa, G., & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2025). The Taxi Driver And The City. (Post)Pandemic Navigations Of Lisbon. An Ethnography Approach Of The Night Appropriation. In A. Bednarczyk, K. Kajdanek, & R. Carvalho, R. (Eds), Crisis, conflict and celebration. Ethnographic studies of European Cities (pp.57-87). Palgrave Macmillan.
- De Dominicis, C., Garcia-Ruiz, M., & Freitas, M. R. de (2026). Música ao vivo e transformação urbana em Lisboa: entre resistência cultural e turistificação. Plataforma Barómetro Social https://www.barometro.com.pt/2026/01/06/musica-ao-vivo-e-transformacao-urbana-em-lisboa-entre-resistencia-cultural-e-turistificacao/
- Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. Light festivals in Portugal: nightlife, tourism, and culture”. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 24, (1), 135-148. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2026.24.009
- Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2026). Lights that gather: Attendance motivations and emotions in light festivals as night-time practices”. Sociológica Mexico, 41, 49-89. https://doi.org/10.24275/OZDB1321
- Mazorra, A., Nofre, J. & García-Ruiz, M. (2025). Gentrification and touristification in Lavapiés: Causes and consequences of a unique interplay in today’s Southern Europe. Epub ahead of print. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2473956
- Mazorra, Á., Nofre, J., & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2025). The brand-making of Madrid Global City from the old historic neighborhood of Lavapiés: a diachronic genealogy of urban policies. European Planning Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2537339
- Nofre, J., Garcia-Ruiz, M., & Galavielle, J. (2025). An exploratory ethnography of the new tourist nights in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. Epub ahead of print. http://doi.org/ 10.1007/s41978-025-00186-4
- Nofre, J., Martins, J. C., Garcia-Ruiz, M. & Teixeira Costa, G. (2025). From gentrification to touristification in the night of a former red-light district: Impacts on tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Cais do Sodré, Lisbon. In M. Gravari-Barbas & S. Guinard (Eds.), Handbook of Tourism and Gentrification (pp. 446-463). Routledge.
- Nofre, J., Mazorra, Á., & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2026). The implementation of the 15-minute city model in Barcelona and the decline of the city’s nightlife industry. Sociológica México, 41, 235-274. https://doi.org/10.24275/QMXA8757
- Puig Guisado, J. (2025). Yo confieso, nosotros denunciamos: culpa y revelación en la poética nocturna de Octavio Paz.Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v27n2.119524
- Vale Pires, C., Garcia-Ruiz, M., Couto Gomes, F., & Nofre, J. (2025). A century of queerness after dark: A socio-historical review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer nights in Lisbon (1920-2020). Sexualities, 28(4), 1686-1704. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241287425





