Conexões globais desiguais: a gestão de veículos em fim de vida útil e os mercados de veículos e peças usados

André de Pieri Pimentel; Gabriel Feltran

doi:10.20336/rbs.1024

Authors

André de Pieri Pimentel Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Gabriel Feltran SciencesPo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1024

Keywords:

End-of-life vehicles, informal economies, globalisation, state regulation

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the connections between state provisions regulating the disposal of end-of-life vehicles and the formation of local and transnational economies for used automobiles and auto parts. For this discussion, we will draw on what we have learned from three specific empirical contexts: Street mechanics in Saint-Denis, north of Greater Paris, France; the trade in used auto parts in the Abossey Okai region of Acra, Ghana; and the dismantling of vehicles for the sale of parts on Avenida Riacho, in São Paulo, Brazil. This discussion is based on the preliminary results of the Globalcar project, a multi-sited and collective ethnographic research project on the (in)formal and (il)legal economic circuits of second-hand vehicles and auto parts, which has been under development since 2021. In the contemporary context, end-of-life vehicles are valuable global resources, disputed by different economic circuits – such as the recycling industry, the reuse of second-hand parts and even the export for repair and resale as second-hand vehicles to territories with less restrictive or more easily circumvented regulations. These transnational networks represent backroads of the automotive chain, mechanisms for expanding and spreading the "system" of automobility in the peripheries of capitalism. Their dynamics reveal global connections and frictions and raises a debate about the unequal geographies of environmental policies, economic development and globalization.

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Author Biographies

André de Pieri Pimentel, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Doutorando em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Pesquisador visitante na University of Maryland Baltimore County (Estados Unidos), com bolsa de Doutorado Sanduíche vinculada ao Programa de Desenvolvimento Acadêmico Abdias Nascimento, da CAPES

Gabriel Feltran, SciencesPo

Doutor em Ciências Sociais, Diretor de Pesquisa CNRS no Centro de Estudos Europeus e Política Comparada da Sciences Po (Paris, França)

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