Nocturnidad & Noctis

Considerations for the nighttime work ethnography

Abstract

Starting on a theoretical reflection, in which the night is a social, spacial temporal configuration, full of the subjectivity of the cultural and relational structures of those who participate on it, rather than just a natural cycle; once joint with the labor perspective, it’s the proposal of this article to analyze the night from it’s two highly related components: noctis and nocturnidad. The considerations and adaptations to the research technics and strategies used, along with the ethical and practical challenges from the ethnography of the nocturnity work, comes next. Finally, the emphasis on the need of an ad hoc configurational conceptualization in the ethnographic study of nighttime economy work diversity.