Dr. Claudia Mock

Publikationen

• Monograph

  • Mock, C. (forthcoming in March 2026). Figurations of Childhood. Middle Class Topologies in Nairobi and Berlin, SFB-Reihe „Re-Figuration von Räumen”, transcript-Verlag: Bielefeld.

• Peer-reviewed book chapters

  • Mock, Claudia & Weidenhaus, Gunter (2022): „I want my child to become a world citizen“. Raum, Zeit und (Re)Produktion in kenianischen Mittelschichtsbiographien. In Johannes Becker, Gunter Weidenhaus, Nicole Witte (Hg.): Göttinger Beiträge zur soziologischen Biographieforschung: Biographie und Raum. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 135-175. https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2022-1873

• Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Mock, C. (2025). White Adultocene. Rethinking modernity through figures of the Child in the history of racial oppression. Frontiers in Sociology 10:1482987. doi: 3389/fsoc.2025.1482987.

  • Fegter, S. & Mock, C. (2019). Children´s Emotional Geographies of Well-being: The Cultural Constitution of Belonging(s) in the Context of Migration and Digital Technologies. In: Fattore, T.; Fegter, S.; Hunner-Kreisel, C. (2019): Qualitative Research on Children’s Well-being Across National and Cultural Contexts. International Journal of Emotional Education, Special Issue Volume 11(1), 13-30, mit Susann Fegter.

• In Review

  • Mock, C. (forthcoming). City of Fluids, City of Voids. Risk Discourses and the Figuration of Children´s Spatial Cultures in Middle-Class Nairobi, In: Kulz, C.; Löw, M. (Ed.): Re-figuring spaces of the cultural: urban struggle and social inequality, Special Issue “Space and Culture”.

  • Dobrusskin, J., Küttel, N., Mock, C. (forthcoming). About Visualizing and Sensing: Methodological Reflections on the Links Between the Sensory, Memory, and Space. In: Marquardt, N.; Korf, B.: Special Issue: Qualitative Geographien sichtbar machen: Visuelle Ansätze zur Überwindung rein textbasierter Kommunikation. Geographica Helvetica, mit Janina Dobrusskin und Nora Küttel.

  • Mock, C. (forthcoming). „Nakumatt was like home“: A graphic essay on the figurations of home in unequal childhoods of Nairobi. In: Pimlott-Wilson, H.; Horton, J.; Hall, Sarah Marie (Ed.): Class, childhood and youth: placing geographies of class inequality.

  • Mock, C. (forthcoming). Figurations of Urban Childhood and Space in Tarlabaşı (Istanbul): A Visual Ethnography of the Mahalle as a Performative Space. In: Barwick-Gross, C. & Kulz, C. Sensory Studies Routledge Book Series.

• Events/Exhibitions/Artist Collaborations

  • 2024

    “Sensing DiverCities – Urban Theory Symposium and Exhibition”.

    11.2024: Refugio/15.11.2024: Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin.

    Organisation and curating the exhibition with the artists Ayami Awazuhara, Mareike Bode und KMRU (with Christine Barwick-Gross and Christy Kulz).

  • 2023

    “Visualizing Narrative Spaces” – Interdisciplinary workshop (art and science) in collaboration with the artist Simone Rueß at the methods lab of the CRC 1265, Technical University Berlin.

  • 2021

    “Spaces of Hope. Critical Perspectives on Spatial (Trans)Formations”

    International Summer School, 11.-13.09.2019,

    Organisation together with the graduate school of the CRC 1265 at the Technical University of Berlin

  • 2021

    “Re-Figuring Spaces #3: Topographies of Hope” with a talk by Cindi Katz, 12.09.2019,

    event organisation as part of the CRC1265 series Re-Figuring Spaces am Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.

• Lectures (selection)

  • 2025

    Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS), Technische Universität Berlin, PhD training program, 06.08.2025

    Vortrag: From child-friendly cities to child-free zones? Rethinking intergenerational spatial justice through lessons from Nairobi and Berlin

  • 2024

    ISA RC 38 Conference Budapest: Biographical research quo vadis? New and recurring challenges in the study of life (hi)stories and social change, Budapest 04.-06.09.2024, ELTE and CEU

    Session: A/1 The Dialectic of Remembering and Forgetting, 04.09.2024

    Paper: “My dad is a big shot, he used to drop us off in the Mercedes Benz”: Biographical topostorytelling and mapping in Nairobi and Berlin.

  • 2022

    Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference, Newcastle University, August 30th to September 2nd 2022

    Paper: “Growing up Global at Home: Middle Classed Reprotopias in Global Entanglements”

    Session: “Classed Geographies in/of Childhood, Youth and Families (2)”, 30th August 2022

  • 2021

    The IX Conference on Childhood Studies: Childhood and Time, Tampere University, Finnland, May 10–13, 2021

    Paper: “Oral Histories and the Spatial Figurations of Middle-Class Childhoods in Nairobi and Berlin”

    Session: “Children and Childhood Over Time: Histories of Childhood and Temporal Structuring’s of Childhood Across Time and Spaces”

  • 2019

    Inaugural conference of Project SALMEA: Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in East Africa.

    A Well-Led Life: Honor, Authority, and Wealth in East Africa

    French Institute for Research in Africa IFRA, July 25-26, 2019

    Paper: „Counter Narratives & Cartographies in Childhood Research in Nairobi and Berlin“

  • 2019

    First International Conference of the SFB 1265 – Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation, 22.02.2019 Technische Universität Berlin

    Paper: „Narrating Space-Time: Biographies of Middle Classes“ (mit Gunter Weidenhaus)

    Panel: „Entanglement of Space and Time“

  • 2018

    Turkologentag 2018 – Third European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies

    Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, 19-21/09/2018

    Paper: „Children´s (Play-) Practices in the Context of the Re-Figuration of the Urban Space in Tarlabaşı (Istanbul): A Visual Ethnography“

    Panel: »(III) Urbanism«

  • 2018

    Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies

    „Genealogies of social differentiation and political contestation“

    Working Group of the Bayreuth Academy / Summer Term 2018, 03/07/2017

    Paper: „Biographical Spaces – An Intergenerational Outlook of Middle Classes in Kenya and Germany“ (mit Gunter Weidenhaus)

  • 2017

    6th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) – Children in a World of Opportunities – Innovations in Research, Policy and Practice

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 28-30/07/2017

    Paper: „Space as a Relational Concept – The Example of Heimat in Biographical Narrations of Children“ (mit Susann Fegter)

    Panel: „Children´s Concepts of Well-Being around the World – Comparative Perspectives“