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Worldwide neoliberal urban planning and securitisation create childhoods marked by segregation, confinement and isolation. Especially in middle- and upper-class milieus, childhood appears as a spatial crisis in which children are patronised and disempowered in the name of protection. Claudia Mock draws on intergenerational biographies and mental maps from Nairobi and Berlin to reveal how security discourses intertwine with bourgeois values and architectures, reshaping childhoods in these cities in surprisingly similar ways since 1960. By identifying bourgeois lifestyles and adultism as integral to anthropocentric urban crises, she calls for cities to be reimagined through intergenerational spatial justice.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 342
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
30 April 2026
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837679649
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
»Das Buch besticht durch seine methodische Reflektion und die durch Grafiken und Bilder unterstützte anschauliche Darstellung. Auch wenn es sich in weiten Teilen vor allem mit Nairobi beschäftigt, ist es auch für deutsche Leser von Interesse, die mit der Autorin die zunehmende Segregation in Großstädten kritisch sehen.«
Claudia Mock, born in 1987, works at the DFG-funded collaborative research center "Re-Figuration of Space" (CRC 1265) at Technische Universität Berlin, where she completed her PhD. The sociologist has just received a seed funding scholarship from the Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she regularly lectures in the Department for Social Sciences. In 2018, she was a visiting fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies and collaborated with scholars at the University of Nairobi. Her research focuses on the sociology of space, children's geographies, feminist geographies and global inequalities.