Abstract
In recent years, Kenya has experienced a series of devastating terrorist attacks, including attacks at the Westgate mall in Nairobi in 2013, the Garissa University college attack in Garissa town in Northern Kenya in 2015, and, most recently, the terror attacks at the DusitD2 complex, Nairobi, in 2019. While there is a vast body of literature that has explored how people navigate risk following terrorist attacks in the Global North, it is a relatively unexplored area in the African context. This dissertation addresses this gap by analysing how young people navigate risk in an era of terror attacks. The dissertation adopts the concept of 'riskscape' to analyse how risk is experienced through spatial practices. The concept is used to demonstrate how riskscapes consist of overlapping and related risks occurring at different times, are embedded in specific places, and are shaped by various actors and power structures through everyday practices...
M.A. (Sociology)