How a Cab Rank is Born

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15n2.41979

Keywords:

taxi, informality, conflicts, illegalisms, urban mobility

Abstract

This article talks about the use of public spaces that I take to describe from the creation of a Taxi Point. With a focus on ethnographic analysis and participant observation, my objective will be to make a critical reflection on how a Taxi Point is created and how they organize this category of urban mobility professionals. Despite the legal norms of urban control, the creation of a Taxi Point illustrates the participation agents that contributes to feeding unofficial practices causing unpredictable regulation by resorting to violence and arbitrariness in the urban spatial configuration. 

Author Biography

Mauro Villar de Souza, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Direito (PPGSD) da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Niterói, Brasil), especialista em políticas públicas de justiça criminal e segurança pública e graduado em ciências sociais pela mesma universidade. É pesquisador do Núcleo de Pesquisa de Sociologia do Direito da Universidade Federal Fluminense (NSD) da UFF.

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Published

2022-05-09

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): MAI/JUN/JUL/AGO

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