TY - JOUR AU - Bradley, Matt PY - 2015/03/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Silenced for Their Own Protection: How the IRB Marginalizes those it Feigns to Protect JF - ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies JA - ACME VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - Special Issue - Participatory Ethics (Guest Edited by Caitlin Cahill, Farhana Sultana, and Rachel Pain) DO - UR - https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/782 SP - 339-349 AB - This paper provides a critique of the way IRBs can maintain the marginalization of ‘vulnerable’ populations through an insistence on anonymity that can run counter to a group’s desire to choose how to represent themselves. I explore the relationship between anonymity and risks and benefits in a discussion of my own experience negotiating with an IRB over a proposed participatory action research project that involved youth in the production of a documentary video. ER -