The Entangled City
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
This book tells the story of the 'world of crime' in Sao Paulo. In so doing, it presents a new framework to understand urban conflict in many other contexts. -- .
Gabriel Feltran Libros
Este sociólogo se enfoca en la política y la violencia en las periferias urbanas. Su trabajo examina la dinámica entre los movimientos sociales, la represión estatal y las vidas de las personas en comunidades marginadas. A través de una investigación de campo detallada, revela las complejas relaciones de poder y resistencia en el entorno urbano. Sus análisis ofrecen una profunda comprensión de los problemas sociales de las metrópolis contemporáneas.
Stolen Cars
- 301 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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