Silenced for Their Own Protection: How the IRB Marginalizes those it Feigns to Protect

Authors

  • Matt Bradley Honor College, University of Utah, Utah USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v6i3.782

Keywords:

IRB, vulnerable population, marginalized population, representation, documentary, marginalization

Abstract

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.

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How to Cite

Bradley, M. (2015). Silenced for Their Own Protection: How the IRB Marginalizes those it Feigns to Protect. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 6(3), 339–349. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v6i3.782

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2007): Special Issue: Participatory Ethics

Section

Special Issue - Participatory Ethics (Guest Edited by Caitlin Cahill, Farhana Sultana, and Rachel Pain)

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