WHERE WE STAND: A View from Elsewhere

Episode 1: Perhaps It Isn’t an Elephant

Six men encounter an elephant. Each describes something different. But who decided it was an elephant in the first place—and why do we believe the narrator?

In the opening episode of Where We Stand: A View from Elsewhere, Dr Dinah Hippolyte turns a familiar story into a question about knowledge and power: whose view becomes reality, and whose gets treated as merely a perspective?

Moving from artificial intelligence and Caribbean Creole to the ways countries are labelled “vulnerable” or “developing,” she explores how naming a problem shapes the solutions we pursue—and the possibilities we overlook.

Beginning in the Caribbean, this episode invites us to take the many places called “elsewhere” seriously as places where knowledge, ideas and global futures are made.

Where we stand shapes what we see. What changes when we move?

Who gets to explain the world—and whose ideas get to shape its future?

Where You Stand: Political and Cultural Commentary from Elsewhere starts with a simple idea: where we stand shapes what we can see. Join researcher and strategist Dr Dinah Hippolyte-Blake for conversations about how ideas emerge, become accepted truths and shape the choices available to us.

From current events and policy debates to everyday life and pop culture, each episode asks: whose perspective counts? What histories sit beneath the headlines? And what possibilities are we missing?

Grounded in Caribbean and Global South perspectives, this podcast invites you to question the familiar, encounter different ways of knowing and imagine what becomes possible when we change where we begin.

A podcast from Saltwater Insights.