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Stolen Cars

A Journey Through Sao Paulo's Urban Conflict

Pocket
Engelsk
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Seri
Stolen Cars
Stolen Cars
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 272
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Seri
  • EAN: 9781119686125
  • Utgivelsesår: 2022
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Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in S¿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