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The Meandering Pod

Cam, Dom, Bec and Lotta

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 47

We are four travelling beans from Perth who have taken on the challenge (and adventure) of journeying from our isolated home to Europe by trail, rail and sail. Join us as we meander across Asia, exploring different continents, cultures and conversations – no flights, no rush.

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🇩🇪 Germany - Places & Travel
29/09/2026
#96
🇫🇷 France - Places & Travel
13/05/2026
#78
🇫🇷 France - Places & Travel
12/05/2026
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SOUTH KOREA – Empire, Feminism, and Sexual Slavery During WW2

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 • Duration 01:02:14

This week, Bec and Cam deep dive on a little known crime in the Asia Pacific during WW2 – The Comfort Women. These were the 50,000-200,000 young women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery in service of the Japanese Empire. They suffered humiliating and dehumanising experienced in euphemistically-named ‘Comfort Stations’ that stayed with them for the rest of their lives.

Activism against Japan over the Comfort Women issue is high-profile and contentious in South Korea, and in this episode we also discuss whether it is motivated primarily by feminism or nationalism.

For those approaching this episode with care, please refer to the contents below, including trigger warnings (with time stamps) about particularly distressing topics.

Section 1

Who were the comfort women?
What happened to them (includes more in depth discussion of sexual and physical assault, suicide and domestic violence)? – (08:29 – 15:35)
How did their story come out?

Section 2

The contemporary political situation between Japan and South Korea
How the Comfort Women issue developed alongside this context
Discussing Park Yu-Ha’s attempted censure over her academic work on the Comfort Women
Is the comfort women issue activism in South Korea a question of feminism or nationalism?
The future of the Comfort Women issue and of relations between South Korea and Japan

Books referenced in this epsode:

Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and Battle over Memory, by Park Yu-Ha (2024 in English)
Jugun Ianfu (Military Comfort Women), by Senda Kakou (1973)

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TURKEY - We made it to Europe!

Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 01:09:28

The gang are joined by Dianna and Emma this week! From sleeping in caves to exploring one of the worlds great cities this episode covers some great stories and provides glimpses into thousands of years of history in Asia Minor.

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AZERBAIJAN - Feminism, Islam, and The Soviet Legacy

Thursday, September 3, 2026 • Duration 31:54

Women in the Central Asia and Caucasus regions have experienced some of the biggest social and political changes to their social status, with policy often at odds with traditional patriarchal practices. In this deep dive, I, Lotta, explore the history of feminism and women’s rights in Central Asia and the Caucasus, through Soviet policies to current independent nationhood. I interview Nargiz Rasulova, a Azer i feminist and activist and talk to her about her thesis - on sex - dependent abortions in Azerbaijan. I also talk to my sister, Ronya Ramrath, PhD candidate at Oxford University in feminist philosophy.

The book I refer to regularly and helped shape my understanding of this issue is “The Nomadity of Being” in Central Asia: Narratives of Kyrgyzstani Women’s Rights Activists by Syinat Sultanalieva.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

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AZERBAIJAN & GEORGIA - We Took a Plane…

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 01:06:12

Ahhh shit, we took a plane! Such a clickbait title, but hey, let us explain. Come along for a yap about our travels since Samarkand in Uzbekistan, to Aktau in Kazakhstan on the Caspian Sea, taking the ferry with wings to Baku, and hitchhiking to Georgia.

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CHINA - Can Electric Vehicles Save The World?

Thursday, August 13, 2026 • Duration 01:05:54

An episode first thought up in the busy, yet silent streets of Kunming, the first City in China we visited. Bec and Cam explore how good EVs really are for the climate, supply chain issues and how much of a role electric cars should play in the future versus active and public transportation.

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KAZAKHSTAN & UZBEKISTAN: The Lost Sea

Thursday, August 6, 2026 • Duration 50:14

The Aral Sea was once the 4th largest lake in the world, which has been greatly diminished by the taking of water from its rivers for irrigation beyond the point of sustainability. This week join Dom & Lotta to hear this incredible story set in the western expanses of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The drying of the Aral Sea came with its own sea of consequences and loss that comes with increasing salinity, receding shorelines, and toxic dust storms. It’s not just about loss however, it’s a story of Mongols, secret soviet bases for developing biological weapons, insane irrigation projects in the desert, and the incredible resilience of nature.

Lotta’s book recommendation:

The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev

Academic paper for ‘Lessons from the Aral Sea’

The Future Aral: Hope and Despair by Philip Micklin

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BONUS - An Asian Travel Odyssey From a Different Era

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 45:39

This week, join us for another bonus episode where Bec interviews her parents, Sally Ashbrook and Aidan Perse, about their Asian odyssey from 30 years ago.

Sally and Aidan are prolific travellers and even joined the group briefly while we were in Uzbekistan!

Learn about how much travel has changed since the 90’s, the biggest brick moments they had on their trip, and how Aidan was influenced to pursue travel medicine in his career.

Enjoy the chatty vibe as we engage in a multi-decade throwback!

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UZBEKISTAN - Horsies and Heatstroke

Thursday, July 23, 2026 • Duration 01:16:27

After a long break the gang is back for a group episode! This time we talk about the Fergana Valley (the home of watermelon), a horse packing adventure in the Tien Shen Mountains and the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand.

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KOREA: Countries Divided, Korea and Germany

Monday, July 20, 2026 • Duration 47:29

Join me, Lotta, and Dr Anna Ramrath, on this meandering Pod deep dive where we explore the similarities and differences between two divided nations: Korea and Germany. Out of the early Cold War origins over the way society, economy and politics changed over the course of the division to the reunification (real or theoretical), we explore what makes a nation. Enjoy!

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How (Not) to Bikepack in Kyrgyzstan

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 58:24

Come listen our Cycling Saga, where we spent the best part of a month riding our bicycles across Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Following on from Becs’ episode with John Paul, we explain the multitude of obstacles, hurdles, and other miscellaneous challenges we faced as bike-packing beginners - AND the moments and feelings that made it all worth it, and will bring us back for more! Group episode will be coming out next week!!

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