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The entangled city
This book tells the story of the ‘world of crime’ in São Paulo. In so doing, it presents a new framework to understand urban conflict in many other contexts.
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 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
Mundo do crime
COLEÇÃO DOIS PONTOS | VOLUME 2 Integrando a coleção Dois pontos, Mundo do crime conta com artigos dos pesquisadores Gabriel Feltran e Michel Misse, em que tratam figura do criminoso e de como ele é tratado: Feltran explora a construção de um personagem a partir da música Tô ouvindo alguém te chamar, dos Racionais MC's e da busca por respeito nas "quebradas" de São Paulo. Já Misse traz dois filmes, um americano (Alma torturada, de Frank Tuttle) e um brasileiro (Vida e morte de um bandido, de Victor Lima), para discutir a figura do bandido e o sistema de olhares destinado a esses personagens. A coleção Dois pontos é coordenada pelos pesquisadores Alexandre Werneck e Eugênia Motta e reúne comentários de pesquisadores sobre obras de ficção que nos encantam e, ao mesmo tempo, nos ajudam a olhar para o mundo, a analisar e compreender as coisas humanas.
The New War on the Poor
When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals. The mistreatment by police and soldiers examined in this book reflects a new kind of stigmatization. The New War on the Poor links the experiences of labour migrants crossing Latin America’s international borders, indigenous Mexicans defending their territories against capitalist mega-projects, drug wars and paramilitary violence, Afro-Brazilians living on the urban periphery of Salvador, and farmers and business people tired of paying protection to criminal mafias. John Gledhill looks at how and why governments are failing to provide security to disadvantaged citizens while all too often painting them as a menace to the rest of society simply for being poor.
Urban Violence
"This book brings together political economy and vital materialism to set out an original conceptualization and genealogy of urban violence"--
Sound-Politics in São Paulo
"Cardoso presents Sound-Politics in São Paulo as the first book-length treatment on controversies surrounding noise control in Latin America"--
Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism
This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. It explores an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with and examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR.
Concrete City
CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West Africa. From post-independence high modernist ambitions to building the opportunities to make a living, the emerging transnational corridor along the West African coast provides a starting point for insights which will expand and inform understanding of both established and newly emerging urbanization processes in many different contexts.” —Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College of London, UK “In this very innovative and superbly illustrated book, Armelle Choplin makes cement vibrant with af...
The Commodification Gap
THE COMMODIFICATION GAP ‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes. Matthias Bernt develops a new concept, the “commodification gap”, which is tested in three richly researched cases. With this, the concept of gentrification becomes a multiplicity and the possibility of conversations across different urban contexts is expanded. A richly rewarding read!’ —Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Human Geography, University College London, UK ‘Urban studies has reached a stalemate of universalism versus particularism. Matthias Bernt is breaking out of this deadlock by be...
Keep the Bones Alive
Introduction : gone -- Disappearance and the search -- Keep the bones alive -- Unearthing life -- Disappearance and the cemetery -- The usefulness of capricious knowledge -- The disappearable subject -- From disappearance, presence -- Muted martyrdom -- Make live, make disappear -- "I just want to live" -- Acknowlegments -- Appendix : reading life through disappearance : a note on method.
