control over spaces

• examples


  -shops saying 'no schoolchildren'

  -children told to play in some areas & forbidden from others

  -increasing close surveillance over children in public spaces
• fears of road safety & 'stranger danger'

  -led to more children being driven to school

  -Cunningham > 'home habitat' (area children can travel alone) of 8 year olds shrunk to 1/9th pf size 25 years earlier
• contrast


  -control & surveillance contrasting independence of children in developing countries

  -Katz > rural Sudanese children roam freely in village and out of it