Claudia Mock

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. In Figurations of Childhood, Claudia Mock draws on intergenerational biographies and mental maps from Nairobi and Berlin to reveal how security discourses...