Stolen Cars

<p><i>Stolen Cars</i> is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in S¿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>