Stolen Cars

Stolen Cars

A Journey Through Sao Paulo's Urban Conflict

Feltran, Gabriel

John Wiley & Sons Inc

02/2022

272

Dura

Inglês

9781119686118

15 a 20 dias

514

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Notes on Contributors viii

Series Editors' Preface x

Introduction 1
Gabriel Feltran

A Phone Call 7

A Global Market 9

Theoretical Framework: Normative Regimes 11

Inequalities 18

Methods: About Journeys, Tacking, and Our Collaborative Research Team 21

A Collective Research Team 27

Ethical Issues, Diversity, and Typical Days 29

Chapter Structure 31

1 Crime, Violence, and Inequality in Sao Paulo 37
Gregorio Zambon and Gabriel Feltran

7 a.m. (Fiat Strada) 39

10:00 a.m. (Hyundai HB20) 43

5:15 p.m. (Fiat Palio) 47

8:40 p.m. (Ford Ka) 53

Urban Violence and Market Regulation 56

2 State Reaction 63
Gabriel Feltran

Police Use of Lethal Force 66

Imprisonment 74

The "Clearing of Public Roads" 78

Political Legitimation 80

3 Designing the Market 87
Deborah Fromm

Insurance as a Mediator 94

The Automobile Business: From the Streets of Sao Paulo to the Panama Papers 99

4 Auctions and Mechanisms 104
Andre de Pieri Pimentel and Luiz Gustavo Simao Pereira

Central Circuits: Insurance Companies that Sell at Auctions 109

Some Numbers 111

Marginal Circuits: Car Dealerships and Chop-shops that Buy at Auctions 115

Auctioneers: Economics and Politics 121

5 Dismantling a Stolen Car 127
Isabela Vianna Pinho, Gregorio Zambon, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva

Family, Market, Politics 130

Between Extremes: From "Recicla" to "Sheds" 135

Prices and Stratification 143

6 Regulating an Illegal Market 147
Luana Motta, Janaina Maldonado, and Juliana Alcantara

A Brief Chronology of the Dismantling Law 149

Old Practices, New "Political Merchandise": The Everyday Experience of the Dismantling Law 152

The Political Centrality of Police Officers 158

Police Regulation and Violence 161

7 Not Criminals, Legislators 165
Deborah Fromm and Luana Motta

New Laws, New Markets 169

Illegal Markets, Microfinance, Corporate Philanthropy 171

Action and Reaction 174

Parallel Insurance and the Protection Market 175

The Law that Governs the Market, the Market that Governs the Law 181

8 Globalization and Its Backroads 187
Andre de Pieri Pimentel, Gabriel Feltran, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva

A Global Market and Its Margins 190

Connecting Markets 194

Urban Reconfigurations 198

North-South Urban Inequalities 202

Conclusions 208
Gabriel Feltran

Afterword: Following Cars in a Latin American Metropolis: Inequality, Illegalisms, and Formalization 220
Daniel Veloso Hirata References 228
Index 245
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Sao Paulo urban violence; Brazil urban violence; Sao Paulo crime; Sao Paulo car theft; Brazil urban ethnography; Sao Paulo illegal markets; Sao Paulo crime supply chain; Sao Paulo illegal economy; Sao Paulo urban equality; violent urban development