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Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781119686118)
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Gabriel Feltran
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xStolen 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
Author: Gabriel Feltran
ISBN-10: 1119686113
ISBN-13: 9781119686118
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Gabriel Feltran
xGabriel 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. Professor Feltran's works include The Entangled City: Crime as Urban Fabric in São Paulo.
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