{"id":25866,"date":"2025-03-19T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=25866"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:55:15","slug":"mitarbeiterinnen-jun-prof-dr-franziska-fay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de\/en\/mitarbeiterinnen-jun-prof-dr-franziska-fay\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile – Franziska Fay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n\n\n
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Since 2021<\/strong>
Assistant Professor of Political Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/strong>
Visiting Research Fellow, Oman Research Grant, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
2017 \u2013 2021<\/strong>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen, Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt<\/td><\/tr>
2017
<\/strong>PhD, Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, London<\/td><\/tr>
2013
<\/strong>MARes\/MPhil, Social Anthropology\/Anthropological Research Methods, SOAS, London<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/strong>
Magistra Artium, Education\/African Linguistics (Swahili)\/Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University, Frankfurt<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n\n<\/jgu-base-imagegallery>\n\n\n\n \n<\/jgu-base-buttonitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-button>\n\n<\/jgu-base-collapsiblearea>\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

Melda Demir<\/a>: “Feminist Commoning among Female Seaweed Farmers in North-Eastern Zanzibar”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gis\u00e8le Oldorff<\/a>: “Agaciro aushandeln. Selbstbestimmung und W\u00fcrde in den Zukunftsentw\u00fcrfen junger Menschen in Ruanda”<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay
Raum 01-677
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-3924856
E-Mail: franzifa(at)uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franziska Fay is Assistant Professor of Political Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Her regional focus lies in Eastern African and the Arabian Peninsula. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Fay\u2019s central research areas span (1.) the intersections of the formations of local feminist praxis and gender-based colonial violence in Tanzania (feminisms\/colonialism), (2.) constructions of childhood and protection in contexts of international development in Zanzibar (childhood\/international development), and (3.) the relationship between gender and language in the Swahili-speaking diaspora in Oman (language\/belonging). The theoretical fields of Political Anthropology, Feminist Theory, and Indian Ocean Studies frame these endeavours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her current research Fay works with the German colonial records in the Tanzania National Archive in Dar es Salaam to explore the interplay of sexual violence, witnessing, and social justice in the context of the (post)colonial relationship between Tanzania and Germany. At JGU Mainz she teaches, among other things, Political Anthropology, African Feminisms, Anthropology and Development, Decolonizing Anthropology, Writing Ethnography, Ethnography of East Africa, and Contemporary Theory in Anthropology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Since 2021<\/strong>
Assistant Professor of Political Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, JGU Mainz<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/strong>
Visiting Research Fellow, Oman Research Grant, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
2017 \u2013 2021<\/strong>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen, Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt<\/td><\/tr>
2017
<\/strong>PhD, Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, London<\/td><\/tr>
2013
<\/strong>MARes\/MPhil, Social Anthropology\/Anthropological Research Methods, SOAS, London<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/strong>
Magistra Artium, Education\/African Linguistics (Swahili)\/Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University, Frankfurt<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Editorships and publications at a glance<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorships<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Book Review Editor, Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em>Duke University Press<\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Editorial Board Member, Mainzer Beitr\u00e4ge zur Afrikaforschung<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, R\u00fcdiger K\u00f6ppe Verlag<\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Board Member, The Mouth: Critical Studies the on Language, Culture and Society<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Monograph<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2021. Disputing Discipline. Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools. <\/em><\/strong><\/a> Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. New Brunswick\/New Jersey\/London: Rutgers University Press. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Journal articles (Peer Reviewed)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2023. The Weight of Witnessing: Commitment, Expectation, and Responsibility in Child Protection Ethnography<\/strong><\/a>. Public Anthropologist<\/em> 5: 232-254.<\/td><\/tr>
2023. The Politics of Skeletons and Ruination: Living (with) Debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya.<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Journal of Eastern African Studies<\/em>. <\/td><\/tr>
2022. Ordinary Childhoods and Everyday Islamic Practices of Protection and Care in Zanzibar<\/strong><\/a>. Journal of the British Academy <\/em>10(s2): 175-197 [Special Issue: Searching for the Everyday in African Childhoods<\/strong><\/a>, Ed. By Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Peace Mamle Tetteh and Georgina Yaa Oduro] <\/td><\/tr>
2022. \"<\/strong>Kuishi Ughaibuni<\/em><\/strong>\": Emplaced Absence, the Zanzibar Diaspora Policy, and Young Men's Experiences of Belonging Between Zanzibar and Oman<\/strong><\/a>. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies <\/em>6(1): 10-37 [Special Issue: Plurilocal Communities in the Indian Ocean World<\/strong><\/a>, Ed. by Walker, Iain and Martin Slama) <\/td><\/tr>
2022. \u201cTo Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani\u201d: Young Swahili-speaking Omanis\u2019 Belonging in Postdiaspora Oman.<\/a> Arabian Humanities, Vol 15 [<\/em>Special Issue<\/a><\/em><\/strong>: Oman Over Times: A Nation from the Nahda to the Oman Vision 2040] <\/em> <\/td><\/tr>
2019. Looking at and Seeing Beyond Young People\u2019s Photographs of \u2018Child Protection\u2019 in Zanzibar. On Children as Diagnosticians of their own Well-being. <\/a>MAT \u2013 Medicine Anthropology Theory Vol 6(4): 80-100. <\/em><\/td><\/tr>
2019. Decolonizing the Child Protection Apparatus: Revisiting Child Rights Governance in Zanzibar. <\/a>Childhood <\/em>26(3): 321-336 [Special Issue: Child Rights Governance] <\/em><\/td><\/tr>
2018. The Impact of the School Space on Research Methodology, Child Participation and Safety: Views from Children in Zanzibar.<\/a> Children\u2019s Geographies<\/em>, 16:4, pp. 405-417. Published online: 26 June 2017 <\/td><\/tr>
2016. The Meaning of Adabu<\/em> and Adhabu<\/em> for the \u2018Child Protection\u2019 Discourse in Zanzibar.<\/a> SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research<\/em>, Vol 9 (2016).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Book chapters in edited volumes (Peer Reviewed)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2025. Women Storying the Swahili Seas: Indian Ocean Feminist Aesthetics and Affective Imaginaries in Lubaina Himid\u2019s Political Painting. In: Vierke, Clarissa and Ute Fendler (eds.) Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean. <\/em><\/a>Oxon\/New York: Routledge, 149-164. <\/td><\/tr>
2024. Wie die Beschaffenheit der Welt das Sein einer Sache bedingt: \u00dcber Christopher (Kit) Davis. In: I<\/em>nspirationen: \u00dcber die Entstehung ethnologischen Denkens<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em> Hrsg. von Lisa Burger, Tim Burger und David Sumerauer. Wuppertal: Edition Trickster im Peter Hammer Verlag, 128-132. <\/td><\/tr>
2022. Rearing Like the State: Belonging, Child Rearing, and Greetings in Zanzibar.<\/a> In Iain Walker & Marie-Aude Fou\u00e9r\u00e9, eds, Across the Waves: Strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies<\/em>. Leiden: Brill, 75-95. <\/td><\/tr>
2020. The Diverse Normative Orders of Being Young and Being Safe in Zanzibar. In: Navigating<\/em> Normative Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives<\/em>. Ed. by M. Kettemann. Frankfurt\/New York: Campus. <\/td><\/tr>
2019. (with Rachel Burr). Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People\u2019s Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools.<\/a> In: Imoh, A. T.-D. et al. (eds.) (2018) Global Childhoods Beyond the North-South Divide. <\/em>Palgrave Studies on Children and Development\/Springer Int. Publishing. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Reviews and Comments<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2023. review of [Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania. By Hansj\u00f6rg Dilger (2022), London etc.: International African Institute and Cambridge University Press], Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Ethnologie (ZfE)\/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology (JSCA)<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/td><\/tr>
2023. Comment on: Scheidecker, Gabriel, \u201cParents, Caregivers, and Peers. Patterns of Complementarity in the Social World of Children in Rural Madagascar, <\/strong><\/a>\u201d Current Anthropology, <\/em>Vol 64(3), June 2023.<\/td><\/tr>
2021. review of [Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte. by Michael Lambek (2018), Toronto\/Buffalo\/London: University of Toronto Press]<\/a>, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/em>, Vol 27: 181-183.<\/td><\/tr>
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]<\/a>, Children\u2019s Geographies, <\/em>Vol 15 (3): 381-383. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Blogs<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2023. (with Mario Schmidt) (Counter)public Contestations: Feminist Theorizing for Anthropological Ethics<\/strong><\/a>, boasblogs.org, 5 July 2023.<\/td><\/tr>
2021. Ukatazaji wa Watoto na Ulinzi wa Mtoto<\/strong><\/a>. \/ Children\u2019s Refusal and Child Protection. Reimagining Childhood Studies Blog, 23 June 2021. <\/em><\/td><\/tr>
2021. Kinderschutz und K\u00f6rperstrafe in Sansibar \u2013 Zu den Blinden Flecken eines Feldes.<\/strong><\/a> In: HABARI September 2021(3): Kindheit und Jugend \u2013 beh\u00fctet oder gef\u00e4hrdet<\/em>. Tanzania-Network.de e.V. <\/td><\/tr>
2015. Life after Fieldwork: Of Leaving the Field, Entering Liminality and Relocating the Mind<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/a>Allegra Lab.<\/td><\/tr>
2015. Cultivating Childhood: Researching Protection and Personhood on a Western Indian Ocean Island<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/a> Allegra Lab.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Art<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2022. Pull and I Shall Pull<\/strong><\/a>. www.africasacountry.com<\/strong><\/a>, 03.10.2022<\/td><\/tr>
2021. Commentary on Onur G\u00f6kmen\u2019s sculpture FIRST<\/strong><\/a>, exhibited at Darmstadt am Landesmuseum, tinyBE \u2013 living in a sculpture<\/em>, 26-6\u201426.9.2021, video contribution available on youtube<\/strong><\/a>, upload 8 June 2021.<\/td><\/tr>
2015. Stainer Chindebvu: Malawi\u2019s Visual Arts Export<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. www.theculturetrip.com<\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2013. Mzungu Kichaa: Bongo Fleva\u2019s Adopted Son<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. www.theculturetrip.com<\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
International Development<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2016. (with Haonga, H.; National Children\u2019s Advisory Board; Salum, A.; Tavengerwei, J.). Children\u2019s Council Manual for Zanzibar<\/em>. Stone Town: Save the Children. <\/td><\/tr>
2016. (with Abdulrahman, A.; Mohamed, A. M.). Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching \u2013 Teacher\u2019s Manual<\/em>. Stone Town: Save the Children. <\/td><\/tr>
2016. (with Abdulrahman, A.; Mohamed, A. M.). Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching \u2013 Facilitators\u2019 Guide<\/em>. Stone Town: Save the Children. <\/td><\/tr>
2015. (with Kassahun, S.) Children and Young People\u2019s Participation<\/em>.<\/strong> Stone Town\/Dar es Salaam: Save the Children.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Interviews, media, podcasts<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Globalwize # 473 African Presence | radio x : WeltBeat, March 2025 - <\/em><\/strong>Swahili Sounds Pt. 1<\/a> (in conversation with Kathrin Thomas)<\/td><\/tr>
heute journal up:date, 13 November 2023 - <\/strong>Kommentar zu Abdulrazak Gurnahs Schillerrede vom 12.11.2023 | \u201cGedanken \u00fcber Kolonialismus - Literatur-Nobelpreistr\u00e4ger in Marbach\u201d (from 08:50)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN), June 2023 - <\/em><\/strong>Interview with Franziska Fay about her book Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
The Indian Ocean World Podcast | Indian Ocean World Center, McGill University, October 2022 - <\/em><\/strong>\u201cKuishi Ughaibuni\u201d & \u201cTo Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani\u201d<\/a> (in conversation with Philip Gooding)<\/td><\/tr>
Podcast \"Denkansto\u00df Demokratie\" | Landeszentrale Politische Bildung Rheinland-Pfalz, August 2022 - <\/em><\/strong>#23 \u00dcber die Spuren der Kolonialzeit: Ein Einblick in die Politikethnologie<\/a> (in conversation with Benjamin Meinig)<\/td><\/tr>
JGU Magazin \u2013 K\u00f6pfe, March 2022 - <\/em><\/strong>\u201eDisziplinierte Empathie als wichtiges Werkzeug in hochpolitischen Zeiten\u201c \/<\/a>\u201eDisciplined empathy as an important tool in highly political times\u201c<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Podcast of the Anglo-Omani Society, February 2021 - <\/em><\/strong>S3 EP4: Young Omani Swahili-speakers and the Zanzibar Diaspora<\/a> (in conversation with Dina Macki)<\/td><\/tr>
\u201cMtu Kati\u201d - Interview with Salim Kikeke, June 2020 - <\/em><\/strong>\u201dMtazamo kutoka upande mwingine kuhusu suala zima la ubaguzi wa rangi duniani\u201d<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Melda Demir<\/a>: \"Feminist Commoning among Female Seaweed Farmers in North-Eastern Zanzibar\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gis\u00e8le Oldorff<\/a>: \"Agaciro aushandeln. Selbstbestimmung und W\u00fcrde in den Zukunftsentw\u00fcrfen junger Menschen in Ruanda\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay
Raum 01-677
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-3924856
E-Mail: franzifa(at)uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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