IRBs and the Turn to Indigenous Ethics

I want to read the controversies and scandals surrounding IRBs within a critical pedagogical discourse.2 Ethics are pedagogies of practice. IRBs are institutional apparatuses, regimes of truth and systems of discourse that regulate a particular form of ethical conduct. As suggested in Chapter 4, this is a historically specifi c form suited to a “neoliberal world of legislative controls, legal responsibilities, and institutional audit and accountability” (Halse and Honey 2007: 349). It is clear that this regulatory formation is no longer workable in a transdisciplinary, global, postcolonial world.