Upholding “Colonial Unknowing” Through the IRB: Reframing Institutional Research Ethics
2018 ◽
Vol 25
(9-10)
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pp. 1056-1064
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Keyword(s):
This article considers the institutionalization of research ethics as a site of “colonial unknowing” in which the racial colonial entanglements of academic research and institutions are obscured. I examine the origin stories situating Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) as a response to cases of exceptional violence, most notably the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, within an otherwise neutral history of research. I then consider how the 2018 revisions to the Common Rule extend “colonial unknowing” by decontextualizing the forms of risk involved in social and behavioral research. I situate these complicities as necessary starting points toward anticolonial research ethics of “answerability.”
2009 ◽
Vol 37
(1)
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pp. 12-18
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2011 ◽
Vol 20
(1)
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pp. 115-129
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2007 ◽
Vol 23
(1)
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pp. 17-23
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2014 ◽
Vol 26
(10)
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pp. 1649-1657
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