SciencesPo and their seminar series Cities are Back in Town will be hosting the webinar launch of the upcoming IJURR SUSC Book Series release ‘Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo’s Urban Conflict’ by Gabriel Feltran.

From the moment a car is stolen, many people start to make money. Where is this money circulated? What effects does it have on the legal and illegal economies? How does it impact social and political dynamics? Based on an ethnographical study spanning five years, Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo’s Urban Conflict tracks the journeys of stolen cars, their owners, and their thieves to examine how the patterns and mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence are reproduced. 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.  The book provides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chain.

The webinar will take place on Thursday 10 February 2022, at 5.30 – 7.15 pm CET, and you can register for the event here.

We are also offering a 20% discount on the paperback edition of Stolen Cars. Simply enter promotion code SSHJB at the checkout when ordering online at www.wiley.com. Please email our Customer Service Team if you have any ordering queries: cs‐[email protected].