Figurations of Childhood

Middle-Class Topologies in Nairobi and Berlin

von Claudia Mock

342 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Re-Figuration von Räumen
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Soziale und ethische Themen Soziale Mobilität
• ISBN: 9783837679649
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2026
• Größe: 24 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: transcript