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Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict
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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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