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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Gabriel Feltran is an urban ethnographer. Professor and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in the Department of Sociology of the Federal University of São Carlos, Researcher at the CEBRAP (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento). Prof. Feltran holds a doctoral degree in Social Sciences by the State University of Campinas (doctoral séjour at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and was invited Scholar at University of Oxford and Goldsmiths College (2019), Humboldt University (2017), CIESAS Golfo (2015), He currently coordinates three collective Research Projects: i) 'The Car Theft Project', working with a team of 10 researchers, following trajectories of stolen cars in São Paulo and its connections to legal-illegal transnational economies; ii) The city margins project - the emergence of violence in social life, especially the dynamics of homicide rates in São Paulo, Brazil and Latin America; iii) Marginal music and sociology, arguing that Urban Sociology could learn from the lyrics and the music produced in the urban outskirts. Author of "Entangled City: crime as urban fabric in São Paulo (Manchester Univesity Press, 2019 forthcoming)" and "Illegal markets in Brazil: an ethnographic perspective", JIED, 2019. Member of the Trustees' Board for the IJURR Foundation - UK - and of the Global Initiative Network Against Organized Crime - Geneva. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Cars are in the center of urban and environmental issues around the world. Cars entangle global economies, from the mainstream to the margins. Social research paid scarce attention to them. Our project departs from describing informal, illegal and criminal activities related to the second-hand car economies (street mechanics, trade and theft of parts, car theft and trafficking, resale of …
Illegal markets are an emerging theme in socio-anthropological literature. The relevance of these economies to the Brazilian urban conflict has been highlighted, as well as the nationalization of southeastern criminal factions to other regions of the country, especially the national borders, ports and airports. The arrival at borders expands the scale of drugs, weapons, smuggling and vehi…
The Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) intends to be a world-class center which is also committed to knowledge diffusion and technology transfer. Hosted at CEBRAP and composed by associated university departments, the center is composed by a multi-disciplinary group - demographers, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists -, whose research agenda aims at stu…
The purpose of this study is fourfold: 1) to build collaborative research links between British and Brazilian researchers; 2) to facilitate knowledge transfer and exchange between researchers in Brazil and the UK; 3) to conduct pilot/background research in order to apply for long-term, collaborative research funding in the future (e.g., Economic and Social Research Council Leverhulme Trus…
This project contains four parts: i) participation in activities of NaMargem and CEM, as visitor of CEPID Project; ii) an interdisciplinary course for graduate and post-graduate students (UFSCar); iii) a fieldwork-based research study in São Paulo city; iv)lectures in UFSCar, CEM, UNICAMP and possibly in USP. (AU)
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Although the literature on illegal markets is extensive, it is still marked by normative approaches that link illegalities to lack of economic or urban development. In addition, there are few empirical studies of how empirical studies on how these markets function in everyday life. This front of research on the Port of Santos aims to investigate the relationship between urban "centers" an…
The studies of informal-illegal transactions, popular finance and the credit market have been consolidated in the Social Sciences. However, few studies have focused on the interfaces between the social and power dynamics embedded in the circulation of money in contemporary urban peripheries. The general objective of this project is to map the social, political and economic dynamics inscri…
The expansion of illegal markets is an emerging topic in the socioanthropological literature. With the arrival of Brazilian factions on the borders, both in ports and airports, the circulation range of goods has been amplified, which consolidates global circuits between legal and illegal. The relation between these economies with the Brazilian urban conflict and violence has also been hig…
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The debates on illegality and the world of crime in Latin American metropolises have little dialogue with the literature on transnationalisms, globalisation and global North-South connections. The proposal of this research front is to look at transnational illegal markets and their low-level operators in our cities as interconnected and interdependent. The aim of this CI is to contribute …
Brazilian social stratification structure and income inequality has undergone important changes in recent years. Between the second half of the last decade and the middle 2010's, Brazilian working poor went through an upward social mobility period with a promise of integration through consumption. However, the scenario today presents an economic crisis, with increasing unemployment and in…
The studies about inequality have been, for years, playing a prominent role in the literature and in the interest of the social sciences. The dimension of the interfaces between legal and illegal markets, the circulation of money, and the reproduction of inequalities and violence have been insufficiently researched. Inscribed in a project that maps the stolen vehicle markets from São Paul…
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This project presents a proposal for the Research Internships Abroad (BEPE/FAPESP) to be carried out under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Finn Stepputat (DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies). The main objective of this project is to employ more systematic and profound reflection concerning the politics of cocaine circulation in the Port of Santos. In this sense, there are diff…
This BEPE proposal will be carried out at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gabriel Kessler. The objective of this project is to develop the analytical diagram that we are working on in my master's degree, focused on explaining the variation of homicide rates in the Triangulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Our analytical diagram proposes th…
In the position of Visiting Fellow at the Latin American and Caribbean Center at the London School of Economics (LSE-LACC), I aim to develop my research in comparative terms - both theoretical and methodological - and write two original articles. The first will investigate the growth of the entrepreneurial disposition amidst neoliberalism, precarity, and frustrations in the formal job mar…
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This project is a proposal for the Foreign Research Stage Grant (BEPE/FAPESP), to be carried out under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Finn Stepputat (DIIS, Danish Institute of International Studies). Through the Urban Studies, the project's goal is to understand and to analyze the connections between the social markers of difference and the urban conflict, reflecting both body and the locat…
The illegal markets - such as drug and guns trade, smuggling or auto parts issued from car theft - not always produce violence and homicide. Anyway, in Latin America and especially in Brazil, different criminal and violent actors dispute those markets. The international literature on illegal markets, although it has developed in recent years, is marked by normative approaches with fragile…
This project presents a proposition to an Abroad Research Internship Scolarship (Bolsa de estágio de Pesquisa no Exterior - BEPE) under orientation of professor Marie Morelle, from Paris University I. The objective is to undertake a more careful and systematic reflection about the relationship between the public security policies and the forms of urban management and city production, espe…
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