TY - CHAP AB - I want to read the controversies and scandals surrounding Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) within a critical pedagogical, discourse. Ethics are pedagogies of practice. IRBs are institutional apparatuses that regulate a particular form of ethical conduct, a form that may be no longer workable in a transdisciplinary, global, and postcolonial world. I seek a progressive performative cultural politics that enacts a performance ethics based on feminist, communitarian assumptions. I will attempt to align these assumptions with the call by First and Fourth World scholars for an indigenous research ethic (Smith, 1999; Bishop, 1998; Rains, Archibald, & Deyhle, 2000). This allows me to criticize the dominant biomedical and ethical model that operates in many North American universities today. I conclude with a preliminary outline of an indigenous, feminist, communitarian research ethic. This ethic has two implications. It would replace the current utilitarian ethical model that IRBs utilize. It argues for a two-track, or three-track IRB model within the contemporary university setting. VL - 12 SN - 978-1-84663-891-6, 978-1-84663-890-9/1474-7863 DO - 10.1016/S1474-7863(08)12006-3 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-7863(08)12006-3 AU - Denzin Norman K. ED - Brinda Jegatheesan PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/01/01 TI - IRBs and the turn to indigenous research ethics T2 - Access, a Zone of Comprehension, and Intrusion T3 - Advances in Program Evaluation PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 97 EP - 123 Y2 - 2024/05/07 ER -