12 podcasts that will change how you think about foreign policy
Earlier this year, IWDA launched our very first podcast – F! It!: exploring feminist and First Nations approaches to foreign policy.
Hosted by Gumbaynggirr/Dunghutti woman and lecturer Julie Ballangarry, the podcast brings together feminist and First Nations worldviews to the heart of foreign policy conversations. Through the five-episode arch, the podcast uses a narrative lens guided by Indigenous yarning methodology to build the listener’s knowledge of feminist and First Nations foreign policy concepts and practice. The series features interviews with ANU academic and Research Fellow in Indigenous Diplomacies James Blackwell, IWDA’s Alice Ridge, Chair of the UN’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Dr Sheryl Lightfoot and Australia’s inaugural Ambassador for First Nations People Justin Mohamed. The final episode with former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar AO
Already all caught up on the F! It! episodes? Here’s 12 other foreign policy podcast to get into:
Australian Foreign Policy podcasts
The Readout
The Readout is the Development Intelligence Lab’s podcast hosted by CEO Bridi Rice. Each episode, you’ll meet one development leader, hear their big idea and discover how it can shape the future of Australian development assistance. The show features Australian and international development leaders at the top of their fields.
Good Will Hunters
Hosted by Rachel Mason Nunn, Good Will Hunters explores the nuanced world of international development by talking to experts and game-changers whose voices and work are critical to radically transforming the sector and our communities for the better. Listen in and be prepared to hear from incredible people who push us to rethink international development, and how we can create meaningful and long-lasting change.
Australia in the World
Hosted by Darren Lim, Australia in the World explores the most important news and issues in international affairs through a uniquely Australian lens.
First Nations Justice podcasts
Voices of Power
Over seven episodes, this podcast series developed by AIATSIS explores critical turning points in the fight for First Nations rights and self-determination and meaningful representation in places of power.
Blacademia
Blacademia is a celebration of First Nations excellence in academia. Each episode, hosted by Gamilaroi woman Dr Amy Thunig, is a conversation with a featured First Nations academic. Thunig creates a warm, conversational space in these episodes, with guests diving deep into their family lives and their work. Thunig has attracted some big names to the show, including Professor Anita Heiss, Professor Marcia Langton and emerging astrophysicist Karlie Noon.
Truth telling with Lidia Thorpe
In this podcast, proud Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman and the first Aboriginal Federal Senator for Victoria Senator Lidia Thorpe yarns with First Nations Elders and Activists about the injustices facing First Nations people and, importantly, the solutions and opportunities that can come from self-determination through the right policy.
Global Feminist Movement podcasts
Think Feminist
The ‘Think Feminist’ podcast series explains fundamental concepts of feminism. Throughout this series, they explore feminism through many lenses: as an ideology or a set of beliefs, as an analytic framework to understand societal problems, and as a social change strategy to overcome them!
Hosted by Srilatha Batliwala, the podcast features activists from all over the world whose work on gender and feminist leadership has set benchmarks and created breakthroughs. In each episode, you will hear in their own words, their stories from some of the biggest feminist movements in our times.
That Feminist Fire
A narrative podcast from AWID that unravels over 40 years of feminist movements—and reimagines a way forward. Each episode explores unique but interconnected feminist realities that are achieving greater gender justice and human rights.
The podcast features conversations with Black Brazilian activists challenging systemic racism, feminists who are pushing back on unfettered corporate power, trans women and sex workers fighting for the rights of all women regardless of gender identity or line of work, and young feminists who are paving a way forward. Each story will ignite your feminist fire and move you to action.
Our Voices, Our Choices
Created by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, this series hands the microphone to people whose voices don’t often get heard – people now making choices which don’t conform to laws or customs – or whose views have long been disregarded, even censored. It’s about communities fighting for basic human rights and the diverse tools of their struggles. The podcast discovers how women are securing their rights through political protest, look in detail at women’s reproductive rights and go into LGBT communities worldwide.
Feminist Foreign Policy Around the World
Womanhood and International Relations
Womanhood and International Relations is a weekly podcast created by Natalia Bonilla to explore the intersection of feminist theory from a personal to an international level. Episode 133 features IWDA’s Alice Ridge and Liz Gill-Atkinson on feminist foreign policy research in Australia and the Majority World.
The Woman in Foreign Policy Podcast
Created by Women in Foreign Policy, this podcast is all about inspiring women and marginalised genders to pursue a career in foreign policy. Episode 3.12 features an interview with Founder of the Gender Security Project and AFFPC contributor Kirthi Jayakumar on decolonising feminist foreign policy
Mind the GAPS
Mind the GAPS explores the world of Women, Peace and Security – or WPS – through speaking to experts and practitioners from around the world word working under the umbrella of WPS. They release a new episode bi-weekly focusing on an important aspect of the WPS Agenda and speak to some brilliant guests who share their takes and recommendations on this important topic.
