Knowledge, Method & Power
What is Knowledge, Method & Power?
Knowledge, Method & Power examines how knowledge is produced, legitimised, circulated and contested—and how power shapes each of these processes. It asks whose knowledge is recognised, who determines what counts as authoritative, and how dominant methods and institutions can silence, marginalise or distort other ways of knowing.
We approach the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States and the wider Global South not simply as objects of inquiry, but as sites from which theory and new ways of understanding the world emerge. It explores how scholars and communities challenge dominant narratives, confront epistemic violence and develop methods grounded in history, movement, lived experience and return.
Editorial Philosophy: Where you stand shapes what you see.
Knowledge is generated through lived experience, history, movement and place. The Caribbean, SIDS and the wider Global South are sites of theory, not simply objects of inquiry.
Movement between experience, scholarship and reflection becomes a methodology for generating new theory.
Knowledge is shaped through institutions, history and power. This research explores whose ideas become authoritative, whose voices are marginalised, and how new epistemic communities reshape global conversations.
Questions WORTH ASKING
Sites of Theory
Who becomes recognised as a producer of knowledge?
Methodological Return
How do institutions shape what can be known?
Politics of Knowledge
How do colonial histories continue to influence contemporary knowledge systems?
What does it mean to build theory from the Caribbean, SIDS and the Global South?
How do politics and power influence whose knowledge travels globally?
How can lived experience become a legitimate source of theory construction?
Research Streams
Methodological Return
Developing movement, immersion and return as a formal methodology for theory generation.
Colonial Quiet
Examining institutional silence, epistemic violence and the politics of absence.