Stolen Cars

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São Paulo car theft
São Paulo crime supply chain
São Paulo illegal economy
São Paulo illegal markets
São Paulo urban violence
São Paulo urban equality
 Brazil urban ethnography
 São Paulo crime
 violent urban development 

Product details

  • ISBN 9781119686125
  • Weight: 397g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil.

  • Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economies
  • Provides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chain 
  • Draws from empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction 
  • Highlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformations 
  • Uses an ethnographic narrative to show how urban development produce various forms of illegality and violent crime 

 

Gabriel Feltran is an urban ethnographer who has studied the ‘world of crime’ in Brazil for more than two decades. He is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos and Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). He has held Invited Scholar positions at University of Oxford, UK, and Humboldt University, Germany, and is former Academic Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Professor Feltran’s works include The Entangled City: Crime as Urban Fabric in São Paulo.