Stolen Cars
eBook - ePub

Stolen Cars

A Journey Through SĂŁo Paulo's Urban Conflict

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eBook - ePub

Stolen Cars

A Journey Through SĂŁo Paulo's Urban Conflict

About this book

Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in SĂŁo 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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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781119686125
9781119686118
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781119686163
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Urban Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Series Editors’ Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Crime, Violence, and Inequality in SĂŁo Paulo
  10. 2 State Reaction
  11. 3 Designing the Market
  12. 4 Auctions and Mechanisms
  13. 5 Dismantling a Stolen Car
  14. 6 Regulating an Illegal Market
  15. 7 Legislators, Not Criminals
  16. 8 Globalization and Its Backroads
  17. Conclusions
  18. Afterword: Following Cars in a Latin American Metropolis: Inequality, Illegalisms, and Formalization
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. End User License Agreement

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