Profile
Franziska Fay is assistant professor of political anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from SOAS, London, and an MA in Education and Swahili from the University of Frankfurt. Fay has conducted research on child protection in Zanzibar, young Swahili-speakers in Oman, and currently works on the link between sexual violence during German colonialism and contemporary anti-GBV approaches in present-day Tanzania. Her work engages political and feminist anthropology, Indian Ocean Studies, and arts-based ethnographic methodology. Her book "Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools" was published by Rutgers University Press (2021).
Publications
Monograph
Fay, F. (2021) Disputing Discipline. Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools. Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. New Brunswick/New Jersey/London: Rutgers University Press.
Articles
Fay, F. (2023) The Weight of Witnessing: Commitment, Expectation, and Responsibility in Child Protection Ethnography. Public Anthropologist 5: 232-254.
Fay, F. (2022) Ordinary Childhoods and Everyday Islamic Practices of Protection and Care in Zanzibar. Journal of the British Academy 10(s2): 175-197 [Special Issue: Searching for the Everyday in African Childhoods, Ed. By Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Peace Mamle Tetteh and Georgina Yaa Oduro].
Fay, F. (2019) Looking at and Seeing Beyond Young People’s Photographs of ‘Child Protection’ in Zanzibar. On Children as Diagnosticians of their own Well-being.MAT – Medicine Anthropology Theory Vol 6(4): 80-100.
Fay, F. (2019) Decolonizing the Child Protection Apparatus: Revisiting Child Rights Governance in Zanzibar. Childhood 26(3): 321-336 [Special Issue: Child Rights Governance].
Fay, F. (2018) The Impact of the School Space on Research Methodology, Child Participation and Safety: Views from Children in Zanzibar. Children’s Geographies, 16:4, pp. 405-417. Published online: 26 June 2017.
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