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.

Fay, F. (2025) Women Storying the Swahili Seas: Indian Ocean Feminist Aesthetics and Affective Imaginaries in Lubaina Himid’s Political Painting. In: Vierke, Clarissa and Ute Fendler (eds.) Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)

Fay, F. (2024) Wie die Beschaffenheit der Welt das Sein einer Sache bedingt: Über Christopher (Kit) Davis. In: Inspirationen: Über die Entstehung ethnologischen Denkens. Hrsg. von Lisa Burger, Tim Burger und David Sumerauer. Wuppertal: Edition Trickster im Peter Hammer Verlag, 128-132.

Fay, F. (2023) The Weight of Witnessing: Commitment, Expectation, and Responsibility in Child Protection Ethnography. Public Anthropologist 5: 232-254.

Fay, F. (2023) The Politics of Skeletons and Ruination: Living (with) Debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies Vol 17(1-2): 222-240.

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. (2022) "Kuishi Ughaibuni": Emplaced Absence, the Zanzibar Diaspora Policy, and Young Men's Experiences of Belonging Between Zanzibar and Oman.Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 6(1): 10-37 [Special Issue: Plurilocal Communities in the Indian Ocean World, Ed. by Walker, Iain and Martin Slama).

Fay, F. (2022) “To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”: Young Swahili-speaking Omanis’ Belonging in Postdiaspora Oman. Arabian Humanities, Vol 15 [Special Issue: Oman Over Times: A Nation from the Nahda to the Oman Vision 2040].

Fay, F. (2022) Rearing Like the State: Belonging, Child Rearing, and Greetings in Zanzibar. In Iain Walker & Marie-Aude Fouéré, eds, Across the Waves: Strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies. Leiden: Brill, 75-95.

Fay, F. (2020) The Diverse Normative Orders of Being Young and Being Safe in Zanzibar. In: Navigating Normative Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. by M. Kettemann. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.

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. (2019) (with Rachel Burr) Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People’s Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools. In: Imoh, A. T.-D. et al. (eds.) (2018) Global Childhoods Beyond the North-South Divide. Palgrave Studies on Children and Development/Springer Int. Publishing.

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.

Fay, F. (2016) The Meaning of Adabu and Adhabu for the ‘Child Protection’ Discourse in Zanzibar.SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol 9 (2016).

Fay, F. and M. Schmidt (2023) (Counter)public Contestations: Feminist Theorizing for Anthropological Ethics, boasblogs.org, 5 July 2023.

Fay, F. (2021) Ukatazaji wa Watoto na Ulinzi wa Mtoto. / Children’s Refusal and Child Protection. Reimagining Childhood Studies Blog, 23 June 2021.

Fay, F. (2021) Kinderschutz und Körperstrafe in Sansibar – Zu den Blinden Flecken eines Feldes. In: HABARI September 2021(3): Kindheit und Jugend – behütet oder gefährdet. Tanzania-Network.de e.V.

Fay, F. (2015) Life after Fieldwork: Of Leaving the Field, Entering Liminality and Relocating the Mind. Allegra Lab.

Fay, F. (2015) Cultivating Childhood: Researching Protection and Personhood on a Western Indian Ocean Island. Allegra Lab.

Fay, F. (2025) review of [African Political Systems Revisited. Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power. Edt. by Aleksandar Bošković and Günther Schlee (2022), New York/Oxford: Berghahn], Anthropos 120(1): 227-228.

Fay, F. (2023) review of [Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania. By Hansjörg Dilger (2022), London etc.: International African Institute and Cambridge University Press], Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE)/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology (JSCA), Vol 148(1), 179-182.

Fay, F. (2023) Comment on: Scheidecker, Gabriel, “Parents, Caregivers, and Peers. Patterns of Complementarity in the Social World of Children in Rural Madagascar,” Current Anthropology, Vol64(3), June 2023.

Fay, F. (2021) review of [Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte. by Michael Lambek (2018), Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press], Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol 27: 181-183. READ HERE

Fay, F. (2016) review of [Discourses of Discipline. An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan's Schools and Sports. by Aaron L. Miller (2013), Berkeley, California: Institute of East Asian Studies], Children’s Geographies, Vol 15 (3): 381-383.

Fay, F. (2022) Pull and I Shall Pull. www.africasacountry.com, 03.10.2022

Fay, F. (2021) Commentary on Onur Gökmen’s sculpture FIRST, exhibited at Darmstadt am Landesmuseum, tinyBE – living in a sculpture, 8.6.2021

Fay, F. (2015) Stainer Chindebvu: Malawi’s Visual Arts Export. www.theculturetrip.com

Fay, F. (2013) Mzungu Kichaa: Bongo Fleva’s Adopted Son. www.theculturetrip.com

Fay, F. (2016) (with Haonga, H.; National Children’s Advisory Board; Salum, A.; Tavengerwei, J.) Children’s Council Manual for Zanzibar. Stone Town: Save the Children.

Fay, F. (2016) (with Abdulrahman, A.; Mohamed, A. M.) Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching – Teacher’s Manual. Stone Town: Save the Children.

Fay, F. (2016) (with Abdulrahman, A.; Mohamed, A. M.) Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching – Facilitators’ Guide. Stone Town: Save the Children.

Fay, F. (2015) (with Kassahun, S.) Children and Young People’s Participation. Stone Town/Dar es Salaam: Save the Children.