<p><i>Stolen Cars</i> is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil.<br /><br /></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Provides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chain </li> <li>Draws from empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction </li> <li>Highlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformations </li> <li>Uses an ethnographic narrative to show how urban development produce various forms of illegality and violent crime </li> </ul> <p> </p>
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