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UNINA9910153223803321 |
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Titolo |
Accounting in conflict : globalization, gender, race and class / / [edited by] Cheryl R. Lehman |
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Bingley, England : , : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (146 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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Advances in public interest accounting, , 1041-7060 ; ; v. 19 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Business & Economics - Accounting - Financial |
Public finance accounting |
Labour economics |
Accounting - Social aspects |
Public interest |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Perilous journeys across the seas: the accounting logic in Europe's Agenda for Migration / Gloria Agyemang -- Brazil, racial democracy? The plight of Afro-descendent women in political spaces / Sandra Maria Cerqueira da Silva, Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova, David Bernard Carter -- West meets East and East meets West: gender research as a cultural encounter in accounting / Naoko Komori -- Unshackling accounting in prisons: race, gender and class / Cheryl R. Lehman -- A Critical Race Theory discussion of neutrality and colorblindness in accounting / Anton Lewis. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Global forces and accountability once again converge in this volume, illustrating the significant and multifaceted nature of the role of accounting in societies. The accounting discipline in its numbers, its silences, its privileging of select classifications over others, it is continually constructing knowledge, cultivates meaning, and impacts public policy in the intersection of socio-political-economic realms. The research in this volume responds to calls for examining accounting as an interdisciplinary role in neoliberal governance by examining migration, race, gender, class and the creation of the 'other'. Each |
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paper uniquely contributes toward significantly exploring accounting's role in disenfranchising populations while identifying participants actualized and potential role in emancipatory struggles. By recognizing marginalized groups embedded power rather than casting them as victims, the authors reject an inevitability of widening inequalities and forms of violence to world populations. Rather these critical accounting researchers seriously tackle the task of transformation, providing pathways for thinking differently and aspiring for change. |
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