Hosted by Karen Given · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a first-person podcast featuring changemakers from the Global South. From how Muslim girls learned to play soccer in India, to political music shaped by Kenya’s long history of resistance, to community radio reaching isolated Indigenous communities in Bolivia, these are intimate stories of people reclaiming power, voice, and possibility. Longer series description What happens when we stop talking — and start listening? What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a first-person storytelling series built around that question. Across nine episodes, changemakers from India, Africa and Latin America share stories of resistance, reclamation, and renewal – in their own words. Social justice leader Sabah Kahn, a formerly “puny” kid who had no interest in sports, explains how she helped launch a soccer program for Muslim girls in India. Musician and histor
Karen Given hosts What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation, a society show with 13 episodes published.
Short description: In this episode of What Takes Root, Colombian biologist and community advocate María Clara Botero Zapata shares how growing up in a campesino family surrounded by mountains and forests shaped her under
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En este episodio de Echando Raíces, la bióloga y gestora comunitaria colombiana María Clara Botero Zapata comparte cómo crecer en una familia campesina, rodeada de montañas y bosques, dio forma a su manera de entender la
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Growing up in an Adivasi village in Jharkhand, Jacinta Kerketta never imagined she would become a voice for her people. In this episode of What Takes Root, Jacinta recalls how she fled violence in her home and journeyed
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En este episodio de Echando Raíces, la comunicadora y artista sonora boliviana Isapi Rua comparte cómo su camino comenzó en las calles, documentando protestas sociales y ambientales que impactan profundamente a su comuni
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In this episode of What Takes Root, Bolivian communicator and sound artist Isapi Rua shares how her journey began in the streets, documenting social and environmental protests that were deeply impacting her community. Wh
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In 2015, when political violence erupted in Burundi, Emery Ndayizeye fled with no plan and no destination, eventually landing in a refugee camp in Uganda. For three years, he says, he had “no life.” Then, an entrepreneur
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Lindsay Nyabereka grew up in Zimbabwe in a school system that prized grades, competition, and clear paths to success. But behind the country’s high literacy rates, she says something vital was missing. Now, as a law stud
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En este episodio de Echando Raíces, What Takes Root, en inglés, la actriz y activista chilena Evaluna Valdivieso reflexiona sobre el momento en que entendió que ser artista y ser activista no eran caminos separados, sino
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In this episode of What Takes Root, Chilean actress and activist Evaluna Valdivieso describes how she came to see herself as both an artist and an activist. She shares the story of her company, Teatro La Crisis, and the
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In medical school, Raviraj Shetty was trained to see bodies as problems to fix. Until he met a 14-year-old client who changed everything. What followed was a shift toward narrative practices that treat people not as diag
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Kenyan artist Mwongela Kamencu, known as Monaja, has spent his life writing music shaped by history, politics and protest. In this episode of What Takes Root, he traces the moments that radicalized him: from his childhoo
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In 2012, almost on a whim, social justice leader Sabah Khan helped to found a football team for Muslim girls in Mumbra, India’s largest Muslim ghetto. But it wasn’t easy. From fighting for time on Mumbra’s crowded fields
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What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a first-person podcast featuring changemakers from the Global South. From how Muslim girls learned to play soccer in India, to political music shaped by Kenya’s l
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What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is hosted by Karen Given. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 13 episodes.
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