Onto-epistemicide and the research ethics board: Towards a reflexive ethics

Giulia Carozzi; Lindsey K. Horner

doi:10.1177/10778004231209064

Onto-epistemicide and the research ethics board: Towards a reflexive ethics

Giulia Carozzi, Lindsey K. Horner^*

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This article posits that current priorities of many research ethics boards makes 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 post-positivist assumptions about what is and isn’t valid or worthy research. Employing Santos’ notion of epistemicide and joining it with Barad’s ethico-ontoepistem-ology we explore how the instruments of ‘Ethics’ act as a mechanism for reinforcing what Massey labels a dominant ‘geography of productions of knowledge’

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	Qualitative Inquiry
Early online date	3 Nov 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231209064
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 3 Nov 2023

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research ethics
onto-epistemicide
epistemicide
ethico-onto-epistemology,
ethics education

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