
Enrico Petrilli is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where he is currently undertaking a study on the securitization of the urban night. In July 2018, he earned a doctorate degree in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research from the University of Milano-Bicocca, with a dissertation concerning an ethnographic study of pleasures in electronic dance music clubs. His research interests vary from alcohol and other drugs, club culture and nightlife, qualitative methods and the insurrectionary possibilities of pleasures. His works have been published in different edited books and journals (Contemporary Drug Problems; Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy; Journal of Youth Studies among others), while has published his first monograph in Italian: Notti tossiche – Socialità, droghe e musica elettronica per resistere attraverso il piacere (something like “Junkie Nights – Sociality, drugs and electronic dance music to resist through pleasure”).
Research topics
club culture; night-time economy; night governance; urban critical theory
