Investigators from University of Campinas Release New Data on Engineering (Insurance Technopolitics: Car Theft, Recovery, and Tracking Systems In Sao Paulo): Engineering

2023 MAR 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Current study results on Engineering have been published. According to news reporting originating from Campinas, Brazil, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “In response to high levels of car theft, insurance companies in Sao Paulo have developed new systems and technologies for tracking and recovering stolen vehicles. These interventions are driven by an insurance rationality that seeks to manage risk and ensure these companies’ profitability.”

Financial support for this research came from Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP).

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Campinas, “However, this article draws on the notion of technopolitics to argue that the tracking devices and other technologies mobilized in this way also exercise their own agency. They help to mediate and reorganize the power dynamics and relations between diverse actors who operate within Sao Paulo’s stolen car market and vehicle recovery processes, presenting both challenges and opportunities for each as they pursue their respective aims.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The notion of ‘insurance technopolitics’ emphasizes this conjunction between risk governance and the contingent, technologically mediated relationships and conflicts to which it may give rise.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Insurance Technopolitics: Car Theft, Recovery, and Tracking Systems In Sao Paulo. Security Dialogue, 2023. Security Dialogue can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Security Dialogue - sdi.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Deborah Fromm, University of Campinas, R Cora Coralina 100, Br-13083872 Campinas, Brazil.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106221141355. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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