Fay, Franziska, Dr.

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Projekte und Positionen im Forschungsverbund

Post Docs

Forschungsthema
Multireligious Utopias? Youth, Secularization and Islamic Education Across the Western Indian Ocean World (working title) / / / ‘Generation Absent: Youth Identity and Belonging in the “Zanzibar Diaspora”’

Kurzbeschreibung Forschungsthema
Im Zentrum des komparativen, ethnographischen Forschungsprojekts, dessen zugleich mehrheitlich muslimische und multireligiöse, urbane Forschungsfelder in Sansibar Stadt (Tansania), Mombasa (Kenia) und Muskat (Oman) liegen, steht die Frage nach den Bedingungen eines multireligiösen Zusammenlebens in Zeiten abnehmender Toleranz hinsichtlich religiöser Vielfalt. Die Untersuchung ‚multireligiöser Utopien‘ ermöglicht ein Hinterfragen der Qualitäten und Merkmale einer Gesellschaftsidee der ‚Moderne‘, die sich durch die positive Hervorhebung inner- und inter-religiöser Heterogenität auszeichnet. Interreligiöse Zentren, die mit Projektansätzen versuchen Kinder und Jugendlichen verschiedener Glaubensrichtungen zusammen zu bringen, sind bezüglich des Erkenntnisinteresses des Projekts zentrale Orientierungspunkte.

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‘Generation Absent: Youth Identity and Belonging in the “Zanzibar Diaspora”’
Die Fortführung des Postdoc-Projekts findet ab 2020 unter letztgenanntem Titel statt. Das Habilitationsprojekt, dass sich aus den Erkenntnissen während der Feldforschungsphasen der vergangenen zwei Jahre herausgebildet hat, fokussiert nun zentral die zeitgenössischen translokalen Identitätskonstruktionen junger Menschen in der sogenannten ‚Zanzibar Diaspora‘ (Sansibari-Omanis und Omani-Sansibaris), zu denen religiöse Zuschreibungsprozesse als fester Bestandteil gehören.
 
Fachrichtungen
Anthropology of Childhood and Youth; organisations; Islam; (Swahili) Muslim worlds; (East) African Studies; Sociolinguistics

Forschungsschwerpunkte
children's rights, child protection and care, international development and community-based approaches, religious organisations, islamic education and reform, violence and well-being, mobility and transregional connections, (Swahili) diaspora, identity and belonging, generation, decolonisation

Biografische Angaben
Education:
PhD - Social Anthropology, SOAS, London, UK (2017)
MARes - Anthropological Research Methods, SOAS, London, UK (2013)
Magister Artium - Education/African Linguistics (Swahili)/Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (2011)

Fieldwork:
Zanzibar, Tanzania (24 months: March 2019; March 2018; November 2016; January 2014 - July 2015; July 2012; July - September 2009).
Oman (April 2019; April 2018).
Kenya (September 2019).

Teaching:
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz - Guest Lecturer, Anthropology and African Studies (2020).
SOAS - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Anthropology (2016).
Zanzibar University - Guest Lecturer, Zanzibar, Tanzania (2014).
Capital L/SOAS - Swahili Teacher, London, UK (2013).
Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute for African Languages, Student Assistant (2010/2011).

Grants/Awards:
Royal Anthropological Institute, Radcliffe-Brown Trust Fund/Sutasoma Award Conference Grants from: Wenner-Gren Foundation/ASA; University of Kent; University of Sheffield (2016).
SOAS, Arts & Humanities Conference Grant (2015).
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Doctoral Studies Grant (2014).
SOAS, Arts & Humanities Conference Grant (2014).
SOAS, Santander Mobility Award, Fieldwork Grant (2013).
Conference/Research Grants from: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA); European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (2013).
DAAD, Graduate Studies Grant (2012).
Socrates/ERASMUS Grant (2009).
DAAD, Swahili Language Course Grant (2009).

Development Work/Consultancy:
2015 - Save the Children Zanzibar, Child Protecion Programme.
2015 - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Eschborn, German BACKUP Initiative, Education in Africa.
2014 - The Risk Advisory Group, London, Due Diligence/Financial Analysis East Africa.
2013 - GEMS Education Solutions, London, Education Innovations East Africa Programme.
2012 - GIZ, Lilongwe, Malawi, Complimentary Basic Education Programme.
2012 - Save the Children Germany, Child Protection/Children's Rights.
2010 - GIZ, Eschborn, Education and Conflict.

Media:
BBC Swahili, London, Guest Commentator, Dira ya Dunia - Daily News Programme, January 2016 - Interview on the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TguMN2dFMig (from min 11'10)

Languages:
German, English, Swahili.

Websites
http://www.franziskafay.com/
https://uni-frankfurt.academia.edu/FranziskaFay

Publikationen im Forschungsverbund

Artikel

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

2019
Fay, Franziska (2019): Decolonizing the Child Protection Apparatus: Re-arranging Hierarchies of Knowledge in Zanzibar. Childhood 26(3): 321-336, Special Issue: Child Rights Governance. | https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568219847256
Fay, Franziska (2019): Looking at and seeing beyond young people’s photographs of ‘child protection’ in Zanzibar. On children as diagnosticians in discussions of well-being. MAT - Medicine Anthropology Theory, Vol 6(4):80-100. | doi.org/10.17157/mat.6.4.704

2018
Fay, Franziska (2018): The Impact of the School Space on Research Methodology, Child Participation and Safety: views form children in Zanzibar. Children’s Geographies (published online: July 2017).

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

2015
Fay, Franziska (2015): Cultivating Childhood: Researching Protection and Personhood on a Western Indian Ocean Island. | www.allegralaboratory.net
Fay, Franziska (2015): Life after Fieldwork: Of Leaving the Field, Entering Liminality and Relocating the Mind. | www.allegralaboratory.net

Buchkapitel

2019
Fay, Franziska Burr, Rachel (co-author) (2019): 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. | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95543-8_10#citeas

Monographie

2021
Fay, Franziska (forthcoming): Disputing Discipline. Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools. Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. New Brunswick/New Jersey/London: Rutgers University Press.

Rezension

2016
Fay, Franziska (2016): review of [Discourses of Discipline. An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan's Schools and Sports.by A. L. Miller (2013), Berkeley, California: Institute of East Asian Studies], Children’s Geographies, Vol 15 (3): 381-383. | DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2016.1189236