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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

Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict

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Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil. Organized around the journeys of... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 10/02/2022
    ISBN13: 9781119686118, 978-1119686118
    ISBN10: 1119686113

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Description

    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

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