The colonized and postcolonial world [..] has actually been a major participant in the making of the dominant forms of knowledge in the modern era, which we too easily call ‘Western science’. The problem is not the absence of the majority world, but its epistemological subordination within the mainstream economy of knowledge. This economy has been profoundly shaped by what the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano (2000) has called the ‘coloniality of power’.