Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Prof. Gabriel Feltran On State Paradoxes: Car Theft and its Formal-Informal Regulations in Brazil

  • Wann 17.07.2017 von 18:00 bis 23:59
  • Wo Raum 002; Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universitätsstraße 3b
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Montag, 17.07.2017

Prof. Gabriel Feltran

On State Paradoxes:
Car Theft and its Formal-Informal Regulations in Brazil

The presentation has two parts:

i) general guidelines issued from field research to understand how car theft in Sao Paulo became, in last 20 years, a transnational market which connects legal-illegal money and formal-informal regulations;

ii) the main analytical (also social and political) consequences for studying the State given this specific standpoint. The research was made with both ethnographic material collected from 2005-2012 in Sao Paulo and official data produced by the Brazilian government and insurance companies in different countries in Latin America.