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Stolen Cars

Stolen Cars

Paperback

Series: Ijurr Studies in Urban and Social Change Book

CriminologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1119686121
ISBN13: 9781119686125
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Dec 28 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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

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