Stolen Cars

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 aspecific theme, such as thedistinctions between violent robberyand the more commercial non-violenttheft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economies Providesan originaltheoretical frameworkforararelystudied urban and transnational supply chain Draws fromempirical data anda combination of different methodologiesto demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction Highlights howeveryday life is entangled with structural urban transformations Uses anethnographic narrativeto show how urban development?produce various forms of illegality and violent crime