https://www.franziskafay.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/ece8f26f-e347-4835-aaf4-e2683b26abd2/Oman+flower.jpg Contact - Contact franzifa[at]uni-mainz.de https://www.franziskafay.com/book daily 0.75 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/a4e608ad-eca9-4fc9-807e-e773e8446947/Screenshot+2025-09-21+at+11-17-24+Disputing+Discipline+%E2%80%93+Mkuki+Na+Nyota+Publishers.png Book - Mkuki na Nyota publishes East Africa Edition of “Disputing Discipline” Mkuki na Nyota 2025 NOW AVAILABLE at TPH Bookshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for TZS 30,000 Watch Niambie Kitabu clip on instagram or facebook Disputing Discipline takes us inside Zanzibar’s classrooms and madrasas to examine how efforts to eliminate corporal punishment are reshaping what it means to protect, discipline, and raise children. Anthropologist Franziska Fay brings us the voices of Zanzibari children and adults as they navigate tensions between local customs, Islamic values, and international child rights norms. Through children’s drawings, poetry, stories, and photography, paired with 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this powerful book explores how children themselves experience punishment and protection, and how their moral and religious worlds are being reshaped in the name of child welfare. Fay reveals why well-meaning child protection policies sometimes falter, especially when they fail to recognize the realities of poverty, religion, and deeply rooted ideas of respect and responsibility. Written in accessible language and rich with insight, Disputing Discipline is essential reading for educators, parents, policymakers, and anyone interested in African childhoods, rights, and the moral debates that shape growing up today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/400e998e-ba27-40f4-9619-aad69b959c80/Book_Cover.jpg Book - Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools Rutgers University Press 2021 Buy the book here or here. Disputing Discipline explores how global and local children’s rights activists’ efforts within the school systems of Zanzibar to eradicate corporal punishment are changing the archipelago’s moral and political landscape. Through an equal consideration of child and adult perspectives, Fay explores what child protection means for Zanzibari children who have to negotiate their lives at the intersections of universalized and local "child protection" aspirations while growing up to be pious and responsible adults. Through a visual and participatory ethnographic approach that foregrounds young people’s voices through their poetry, photographs, and drawings, paired with in-depth Swahili language analysis, Fay shows how children’s views and experiences can transform our understanding of child protection. This book demonstrates that to improve interventions, policy makers and practitioners need to understand child protection beyond a policy sense of the term and respond to the reality of children’s lives to avoid unintentionally compromising, rather than improving, young people’s well-being. https://www.franziskafay.com/articles daily 0.75 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623668-HZRFLO3651EPJH1TPRCA/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623684-GGWG0O4HYMNHXCXYLX0B/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623696-09AGCSA5YLJI5GXVSKAD/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Publications https://www.franziskafay.com/videos daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://www.franziskafay.com/visuals daily 0.75 2024-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/51f8ee3f-e52f-4525-ab1d-e545eddc02cb/12.jpg Research - Mach es besonders Swahili-Speakers in Oman As a Post-Doc at Normative Orders and ZMO Berlin, I started engaging with present-day approaches to preserving the Swahili language in Oman. I am curious about the discourses and practices that aim to prevent Swahili-speaking Omani communities from losing this aspect of belonging, both to the Sultanate and to a `Zanzibari’-diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/5553f9a4-584f-47a5-954c-f12716e788bc/10274188_10152365231817590_1751365106752450911_n.jpg Research - Mach es besonders Child Protection in Zanzibar During my PhD at SOAS, I started exploring the friction between internationally initiated child protection interventions and everyday practices of caring for and keeping children safe in Zanzibar. I am interested in what children have to say about their own protection and how these perspectives can make child protection policy and practice more robust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/ff009484-4651-4e30-b4d3-389c7da02f74/IMG-4102.jpg Research - Mach es besonders Feminist Lives in Tanzania As part of my appointment as assistant professor of political anthropology at JGU Mainz, I am currently developing a research project on contemporary feminist movements in Tanzania. Here, I am curious about questions and activisms that engage with matters of (self)defense, witnessing, refusal and translation. https://www.franziskafay.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/57decfa2-7e19-4225-aed2-6b3f0a30f2ed/IMG_9753.jpg About - Mach es besonders Was auch immer es ist – die Art und Weise, wie du deine Geschichte online vermittelst, kann einen gewaltigen Unterschied ausmachen. https://www.franziskafay.com/teaching daily 0.75 2024-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623709-6IWIDPK73ELGYDD7PF6J/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623721-71EERIF59AR89IAHIKM9/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623737-PY2VYJXBVKULICHSZUO5/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Teaching https://www.franziskafay.com/media daily 0.75 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec7f5c60e8adb6c4d3e78a2/1623835623684-GGWG0O4HYMNHXCXYLX0B/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Public Engagement https://www.franziskafay.com/events-and-talks daily 0.75 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/fa8e1d18-57a4-487d-b985-0d9e9287c186/Workshop+Pres+Prot.png Events and Talks - Mach es besonders International Workshop Reconfiguring Language Preservation and Protecting Language-Related Social Practices and Spaces (ZIS Working Group Linguistic Anthropology/Anthropological Linguistics) 1 December 2023, JGU Mainz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/fd10e9a3-537f-4caa-900f-f487046d684a/Tafsiri.jpg Events and Talks - Mach es besonders WORKSHOP Tafsiri: Siasa ya Kutafsiri na Kujikwamua kutoka kwanye Ukoloni katika Taaluma ya Kiswahili | Politics of Translation and Decolonisation in Swahili Studies (with Irene Brunotti and Nathalie Arnold Koenings) 19-20 November 2021, JGU Mainz | Full Programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/c3da0eda-22a7-433b-a15a-d7acc77d1978/PoP+Workshop.jpg Events and Talks - Mach es besonders WORKSHOP Politics of Good Parenting: Normativities, Distinctions, Interventions (with Heike Drotbohm and Konstanze N’Guessan) 19-20 May 2022, JGU Mainz | Full Programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/6f418027-9334-4576-92b7-de503f24c07c/After+Waithood.png Events and Talks - Mach es besonders WORKSHOP After Waithood: Contemporary Approaches to Research with Youth Across ‘Muslim Worlds’ 24 January 2020, Goethe University Frankfurt | Poster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/80286037-0d08-49cf-acf3-b16e902b7a2c/Screenshot+2024-01-10+at+12-41-24+Summer+School+2024+%E2%80%93+Eine+andere+WordPress-Site.png Events and Talks - Mach es besonders International Summer School Co-Constructing Oman: Global Knowledge Prodcution and the Making of National Idenity (RMU Oman Research Network / Research Group Indian Ocean Confluences) 29. September - 5. October 2024, JGU Mainz https://www.franziskafay.com/awards daily 0.75 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/22265894-b478-47f7-9aa8-31a15b37ec08/250625DIES100_c_Stefan+S%C3%A4mmer.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/a7993dc1-b38a-46e2-b7f0-d4586e0887f5/250625DIES052_c_Stefan+S%C3%A4mmer.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6319923731e15c76360ef453/1f5f800e-3d66-4d82-919d-2c672c5aaa19/Zitat.png