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Night Stories: Urban Narratives of Migrant Lives in Europe
  • ISSN: 2040-4344
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Abstract

This article discusses the significance of night-time spaces associated with the Cape Verdean community in Rotterdam, home to the third largest Cape Verdean diaspora in the world. Through interdisciplinary approaches including interviews with key figures in music production and nightlife, mapping of key historical and contemporary sites, and close analysis of artefacts and music lyrics, this article considers how music practices of huge historical and cultural significance have been deeply embedded in the night-time cartography of the city. Following Doreen Massey’s formulations, it considers urban space as a mobile junction of historical, sociopolitical and cultural layers, in constant transformation, and argues that night-time spaces were, and continue to be, integral to the development of a political–cultural consciousness among the Cape Verdean community in Rotterdam, in colonial and postcolonial contexts. These discussions are also relevant given current debates on the value of the ‘night-time economy’ in Rotterdam’s post-industrial landscape.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) (Award 2.060)
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Night spaces and stories of the Cape Verdean diaspora in the Netherlands: Belonging and cultural activism
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Keyword(s): diasporic cultures; migration; music making; nocturnal aesthetics; Rotterdam; urban night

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