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Stolen Cars
A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict
‘Something of an instant classic, Stolen Cars pins its researcher’s sights on the moving targets selected by the thieves and robbers of Sao Paulo’s criminal networks. Those expecting only underworld revelations are quickly re-educated to see how acts of illicit acquisition form part of a more complex and vast urban economy whose shadow embraces both the formal and the illicit. Stolen Cars is a detailed, complex and exciting story with an intellectual energy that matches the turbo-charged vehicles so prized by Sao Paulo’s thieves.’
Rowland Atkinson, Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield, UK
‘This book should be an instant classic. Theft and crime shape urban livelihoods and everyday experiences in many cities, at the frontiers of often extreme inequality. But these themes are absent from the canon of urban theory. Through a detailed ethnography of car theft in Sao Paulo, Stolen Cars traces the deep ties of these illegal circuits with insurance, finance, auto production and repair, as well as the international drug trade. A highly innovative account of crucial transnational networks shaping urban life and urban economies, this book represents an essential new starting point for global urban studies.’
Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College London, UK
Gabriel Feltran (Edited by), G Feltran (Author)
9781119686118, Wiley
Hardback, published 10 February 2022
272 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.51 kg
Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil.
Series Editors’ Preface x Introduction 1 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 São Paulo 37 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 Police Use of Lethal Force 66 Imprisonment 74 The “Clearing of Public Roads” 78 Political Legitimation 80 3 Designing the Market 87 Insurance as a Mediator 94 The Automobile Business: From the Streets of São Paulo to the Panama Papers 99 4 Auctions and Mechanisms 104 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 Family, Market, Politics 130 Between Extremes: From “Recicla” to “Sheds” 135 Prices and Stratification 143 6 Regulating an Illegal Market 147 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 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 A Global Market and Its Margins 190 Connecting Markets 194 Urban Reconfigurations 198 North–South Urban Inequalities 202 Conclusions 208 Afterword: Following Cars in a Latin American Metropolis: Inequality, Illegalisms, and Formalization 220
Notes on Contributors viii
Gabriel Feltran
Gregorio Zambon and Gabriel Feltran
Gabriel Feltran
Deborah Fromm
André de Pieri Pimentel and Luiz Gustavo Simão Pereira
Isabela Vianna Pinho, Gregório Zambon, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva
Luana Motta, Janaina Maldonado, and Juliana Alcântara
Deborah Fromm and Luana Motta
André de Pieri Pimentel, Gabriel Feltran, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva
Gabriel Feltran
Daniel Veloso Hirata References 228
Index 245
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
