The Entangled City
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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 Libri
Questo sociologo si concentra sulla politica e la violenza nelle periferie urbane. Il suo lavoro esamina le dinamiche tra movimenti sociali, repressione statale e vite delle persone in comunità marginalizzate. Attraverso ricerche sul campo dettagliate, rivela le complesse relazioni di potere e resistenza nell'ambiente urbano. Le sue analisi offrono una profonda comprensione dei problemi sociali delle metropoli contemporanee.
Stolen Cars
- 301pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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