Centring the margins: Knowledge production and methodology as praxis

From where do we look upon the world and from where do we understand what we see? These questions demand we interrogate the role that is played by geography, our socio-economic position in society and our race and gender in the production of knowledge. The idea of ‘centring the margins’ evokes the geopolitics of knowledge in decolonizing debates, in which the West and Western academy are seen to constitute an imperial core, setting the limits and values of knowledge and marking themselves as knowledge creators in contrast to peripheral non-Western countries and people who serve as subjects of knowledge (Mignolo,