Background.
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 works with the Centre for (Medical) Education and the Visual Embodied Methodologies Network
at King’s College London.
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.
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Co-produced participatory theatre projects include: Free Si Bure: What’s the price of care? and Lisemwalo Lipo: A play about vaccine rumours.
Watch a short clip –
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Watch a short clip –
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:
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
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
Cambridge Journal of Anthropology: on Covid vaccine rumours in Mombasa
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
