Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics
Giulia Carozzi,
Lindsey K. Horner
Abstract:This article posits that current priorities of many research ethics boards make them a self-undermining entity in that they perpetuate the erasure of certain knowledges and with them the bodies subjectivities and subjects that live them. Through obscuring the history, geography and onto-epistemology of the assumptions underpinning ethical review these boards reproduce dominant Eurocentric and postpositivist assumptions about what is and isn’t valid or worthy research. Employing Santos’s notion of epistemicide … Show more
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