Stolen Cars

A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict

Gabriel Feltran

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English

John Wiley & Sons Inc
10 February 2022

Politics & government; Geography

Series: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

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

Edited by: Gabriel Feltran
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781119686118
ISBN 10: 1119686113
Series: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 10 February 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. Professor Feltran’s works include The Entangled City: Crime as Urban Fabric in São Paulo.