IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book #: Stolen Cars

A Journey Through Sao Paulo's Urban Conflict

IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book #: Stolen Cars
Gabriel Feltran
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27 Jan 2022 US
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9781119686125
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Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in Sao 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 economiesProvides 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 Sao Paulo's Urban Conflict

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 Sao 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 Sao Paulo.
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ISBN-13: 9781119686125
Published: 27 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 272

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