about — Rebellious Care

Rebellious Care emerged from a collaboration between Dr Zoë Goodman and Dr Marianna Bacci Tamburlini.

Zoë Goodman ^(she/her)

is an anthropologist and facilitator with 15 years of experience at top universities, non-profit organizations and the UN.

Zoë is affiliated to the Global Health & Social medicine department at King’s and passionate about arts-based and embodied approaches to research, pedagogy and care.

Zoë has been doing research in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa for a decade. She currently collaborates annually with Jukwaa Arts Productions, who use performing arts to promote public debate and social change in Mombasa.

Co-produced participatory theatre projects include: Free Si Bure: What’s the price of care? and Lisemwalo Lipo: A play about vaccine rumours.

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Zoë’s previous roles include working on the Wellcome-Trust Funded project What’s at stake in the fake? Indian pharmaceuticals, African markets and Global Health, co-convening the MA Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, University of London and developing global guidelines for more equitable agricultural investment at UNCTAD.

Zoë is currently supporting ‘Powering Up’: Co-producing solutions to health inequality with young people, and working with Dr Alice Tilche to develop an arts-based research agenda for speaking back to power.

Zoë has been trained in:

She is currently becoming a certified practitioner of:

Embodied Social Justice

The Politics of Trauma

The Resilience Toolkit

Zoë’s facilitation practice draws on politicized somatics, theatre of the oppressed and other social justice-oriented participatory methodologies, such as body mapping and collective cartography.

Articles and blogs ︎

Cambridge Journal of Anthropology: on Covid vaccine rumours in Mombasa (forthcoming)
Somatosphere: on participatory theatre and global health norms (forthcoming)
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology: on the politics of tower blocks in Mombasa
Focaal blog: on the politics of anthropology in the UK

Ethnographic poems ︎

HIMĀL Southasian: Mombasa
IIAS The Newsletter: Leiden

Rebellious Care emerged from a collaboration between Dr Zoë Goodman and Dr Marianna Bacci Tamburlini.

Zoë Goodman (she/her)

is an anthropologist and facilitator with 15 years of experience at top universities, non-profit organizations and the UN.

Zoë Goodman ^(she/her)