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First published on May 22, 2008, doi:10.1177/0002764208318939
American Behavioral Scientist 2008;51:1902.
A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2008
Where Inquiry Ends: The Peer Review Process and Indigenous Standpoints
Ismael Abu-Saad*
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: abusaad{at}bgumail.bgu.ac.il.
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One of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people against colonization is to be able to exercise the fundamental right to represent themselves and to speak to the dominant society with their own voices and words, rather than to be spoken of or about. This essay discusses the mainstream academic peer review process and the suppression of indigenous standpoints by the dominant culture. The essay goes on to analyze the ways in which one mainstream international academic journal accepted and contained the expression of an indigenous standpoint by then inviting a response from a mainstream scholar who largely delegitimized the indigenous voice, at which point the inquiry ended.

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