Research Areas
In my ethnographic research I explore the overarching quesion of protection and its related practices of preventing, keeping safe, preserving, caring, and defending.
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.
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.
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.