Accounting in conflict globalization, gender, race and class /

• Other Authors: Lehman, Cheryl R.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, c. 2016.
• Series: Advances in public interest accounting ; v. 19.
• Subjects: Business & Economics > Accounting > Financial.; Public finance accounting.; Labour economics.; Accounting > Social aspects.; Public interest.
• Online Access: Access Fulltext via EzAccess

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 construct...

Table of Contents:

• 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.