Saltwater Reasonings

Currents of care, struggle, and knowing otherwise—in and across the Global South

Saltwater Reasonings is a space for critical conversation, reflection, and collective knowing. This listening library hosts podcasts and audio essays rooted in resistance, and in deep dialogue with thinkers, practitioners, and communities across the Global South.

Grounded in the Caribbean tradition of reasoning, relational, embodied, and insurgent, this space brings together students, scholars, and community collaborators who are reimagining what it means to teach, research, and practise from sites of struggle and care.

Built on the belief that knowledge lives in community, in the body, and in the questions we carry between us, Saltwater Reasonings holds space for dialogue on research justice, trauma-informed praxis, and the unfinished project of decolonial education.

We don’t just cite theory: we live it and remake.

Critical reflections that bridge grassroots wisdom and institutional critique, this space embodies the brilliance and burden of our collective grappling. It is for those who know that knowledge is never neutral, and that the Caribbean, like many parts of the Global South, has always had its own way of thinking out loud.

We speak across waters, between disciplines, generations, and geographies of resistance, to honour knowledge that is accountable, situated, and alive.

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1. Welcome to Saltwater Reasonings

2. Reasoning as Method: Caribbean Epistemologies in Practice

3. Liming, Ole Talk, and the Politics of Listening

4. Water Knows the Way: Diaspora, Return, and the Sea

5. Home, Hurt, and Holding On

6. Research at the Edge: Reflexivity, Risk, and  Working with Women

7. Enacting Epistemic Freedom

8. Carnival and the Politics of Joy

9. Mapping Memory, Mapping Grief

10. Story as Theory: Narrative as Knowing

11. Echoes of Care: Interpersonal Healing in Collective Struggle

12. Affirming Methodologies: Recognition, Dignity, and Doing Right by Participants

13. Poetry in the Field: Fragments, Voice, and Found Truths

14. An Unfinished Conversation