ABSTRACT
Caribbean researchers are increasingly heeding postcolonial feminists’ and other critical scholars’ call for unsettling the South by decentring Western ways of knowing, and instead centre the lives of Caribbean people. An important aspect of this process is developing culturally relevant methodologies to understand the lived experiences and realities of Caribbean people. The chapter adds to this trend by demonstrating the application of feminist standpoint methodology to centre dropout high school girls’ experiences of drug use in Jamaica. We demonstrate the methodological possibility of disrupting power imbalances and Western frames for knowledge production. We argue that by employing feminist standpoint, Caribbean research can benefit from an epistemic advantage, power-sharing, situated knowledge, and strong objectivity. Our chapter adds to the compendium of feminist standpoint research which are (re) positioning Caribbean lives from the margins to the centre of scientific inquiry and theory.
