Entangled city: Crime as urban fabric in São Paulo by Feltran, Gabriel

Entangled city: Crime as urban fabric in São Paulo

Based on 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book understands the increasing violence seen in cities as...
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Entangled city: Crime as urban fabric in São Paulo by Feltran, Gabriel

Entangled city: Crime as urban fabric in São Paulo

$97.63

Entangled city: Crime as urban fabric in São Paulo

$97.63
Author: Gabriel Feltran
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Based on 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book understands the increasing violence seen in cities as a product of the emergence of transnational illegal markets since the 1970's, followed by the suppression of unskilled workers, in many places racialised young men from poor neighbourhoods. The book gives flesh and blood to these transformations through a careful study of Sao Paulo's case in Brazil. The first part of the book is based on the trajectories of three families, featuring young men affiliated with illegal markets such as drug dealing and car theft, although in very different situations. The clash between the everyday life patterns of these black families, compared to Sao Paulo's white middle classes, gives plausibility to the city's social conflict, most violent after the 80's, when transnational markets arrive and incarceration grows. Sao Paulo's case offers more: this conflict is 70% less lethal in 2017 than it was in the 2000, mostly due to the actions of the PCC (the main criminal group in Brazil, a transnational one) discussed in the second part of the book. The "world of crime" is stronger, yet at the same time homicide rates are falling. The final argument demonstrates that informality, illegality and criminal violence are produced entangling legal and illegal markets and formal/informal institutions, not only in Sao Paulo.



Author: Gabriel Feltran
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 04/01/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781526138248

About the Author
Gabriel Feltran is Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Federal University of São Carlos, Scientific Director of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM, São Paulo) and researcher at the Centre for Urban Ethnography at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP)

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