Stolen Cars. Группа авторов

Stolen Cars - Группа авторов


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the black box of the concrete routines of urban life to unmask urban violence, or contemporary capitalism, not as a concept but as an object to be understood (Machado Da Silva 2008, 2016). In this book, we develop his clues.

      Methods: About Journeys, Tacking, and Our Collaborative Research Team

      The notion of tacking is even more useful when it comes to studying crime rings, as we do in this book. Unlike other markets, in which advertising and marketing are essential, in the illegal world, to keep operating in secrecy is “the soul of the business.” As repression is always possible, it is also necessary to diversify routes, hide warehouses, modify paths, and change passwords (but also cell phone chips and devices, addresses and clothes, hair and looks, and sometimes one’s very physiognomy). Circumstances change even faster in illegal markets and any action may be under surveillance by the police, rivals, or enemies.

      In the criminal sphere, there is no stability guaranteed by bureaucracy or reliable information available to operators. For this reason, horizontal organization is encouraged. Criminal factions, mafias, cartels, and gangs are a way to produce trustworthy and essential internal environments, functioning as institutions under the logic of honor. As Amit and Knowles (2017) propose, the skills of inventiveness, timing, and dealing with the unexpected are at the base of the operations of stimuli and obstacles to the contemporary global circulation of goods, services, and people.

      As instability expands in the contemporary world – viz. the effects of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 – the circumstances and the definitions of situations are, almost always, contingent. The ability to improvise and adapt is one of the virtues most cherished by contemporary institutions and labor markets; it is no different in (il)legal markets. Methodologically, considering daily tacking as a means of structuring the actions of operators is more realistic than starting from any rationalist or structuralist theories. At the same time, the effects of these improvisations produce very rigid structures of inequality and a lot of specificity in the disposition of violence (Feltran 2012).

      Likewise, there is a long tradition of sociological studies based on life stories (Arendt 1994; Bertaux 1981; Foucault and Barbin 1980; Lewis 1961) and trajectories (Bourdieu 1986; 2004; Cabanes 2004; Telles 2010). The situational encounter in ethnographic research has also yielded fruitful narratives in anthropology, especially those that relate the life stories of researchers and their interlocutors (Das 2007a; Feltran 2017). In this sense, autobiographies and biographies become generators of the analytical unit to be worked on in this book – the journeys of stolen cars and those of their owners and their thieves (Bourdieu 1986, 2004, 2011).

      The methodological construction of our typical journeys follows the tradition of contemporary ethnographies of objects (Knowles 2014; Tsing 2015) but also that of narrative analysis (Alleyne 2014). In this method, the formal construction of the narratives is part of the methodological-analytical work. In this book, the journey of our five stolen cars is a composition, by aggregation, of situations and characters that we got to know in the field. The journeys must be typical, that is, we must reconstruct the chain of profile events of subject who were usually, frequently, found in the field. We did not, therefore, opt for exceptional scenes or liminal situations, even when we observed these in the field, but for repeated scenes and situations.


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Vehicle, owner, situation Time and location of theft or armed robbery Where does it go immediately What is it used for Where do the car or its parts go Markets, purchases and sales Other developments
Toyota Hilux 2016 Family from Campos Verdes Insured Tracker 7 a.m. – Robbery with kidnapping of family; ordered in São Paulo, stolen in Campos Verdes (MT, 1,700 km) Vehicle crosses the border with Bolivia, 80 km away, by back roads. Spends months in San Matias, Bolivia, circulating without plates. Exchanged for 6 kg of cocaine (base paste + hydrochloride). Truck driver brings cocaine to Ermelino Matarazzo (border with Guarulhos, where the mules are). Part of base paste resold in the SP East Zone; hydrochloride exported through the Port of Santos
Fiat Strada 2014 Seo Claudio No insurance No tracker 7 a.m. - Theft Aricanduva Vehicle “cools down” on street in Sapopemba next to large avenue for three days – common practice to avoid arrest.