Stolen Cars A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict

Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses aspecific theme, such as thedistinctions between violent robberyand the more commercial non-violenttheft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economiesProvidesan originaltheoretical frameworkforararelystudied urban and transnational supply chainDraws fromempirical data anda combination of different methodologiesto demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproductionHighlights howeveryday life is entangled with structural urban transformationsUses anethnographic narrativeto show how urban development produce various forms of illegality and violent crime