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A visual and poetic exploration into the lives of Zanzibari children who negotiate the intersections of universalized and local children’s rights aspirations,
Disputing Discipline shows how anti-corporal punishment programs in schools unintentionally compromise children’s well-being and asserts that children’s views and experiences can and should transform our understanding of child protection policy.
List of contents
A Note on Language and Translation
Glossary of Swahili Terms
Introduction
1. Being Young in Zanzibar
2. Childhood With/out Punishment
3. Children and Child Protection
4. Child Protection in Zanzibar Schools
5. Gender, Islam, and Child Protection
6. Decolonizing Child Protection
7. Beyond Well-being, towards Children
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Swahili Terms
Notes
References
Index
About the author
FRANZISKA FAY is a postdoctoral researcher in anthropology at the Research Centre ‘Normative Orders’ at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Summary
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.
