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Stolen Cars A Journey Through Sao Paulo's Urban Conflict - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Series

$76.38

Publisher: Wiley

Author: Gabriel de Santis Feltran

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   
ISBN: 9781119686118
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published date:
DEWEY: 364.98161
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 516g
Height: 237mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 23mm

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