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

By Gabriel Feltran

Book information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2022
ISBN
2021033082, 2021033083, 9781119686118, 9781119686125, 9781119686156, 9781119686163, 9781119686149, 1119686113
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (13053683 bytes)
Pages
276\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-10-22 23:51:58

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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