Critical accountants study how accounting shapes organisations and the social world. They aim to bring alternative accounts into focus. This parallels radical aspirations in development studies to empower countervailing voices in the economic sphere. Yet little dialogue exists between these fields. What can critical accounting and development studies learn from each other?
Critical accounting is the study of the impact that technocratic accounting tools have in shaping everyday lives of people, organisational and societal realities. Critical accountants also aim to develop counter-accounts as a way of challenging dominant accounting practices and drawing attention to issues such as racialisation, social injustice, human rights violations, and environmental damage.
The work of critical accountants parallels aspirations for participatory governance in development studies, and especially the study of more democratised forms of economic decision-making. However, very little dialogue exists between critical accounting and development studies. What can critical accounting and development studies learn from each other?
This seminar will lay the foundations for such a dialogue. It builds on Visiting Fellow Dr Farzana Tanima’s research on divergent accounts within microfinance programmes and recent and ongoing work at IDS on building greater participation in economic decision-making.
Speakers:
- Farzana Tanima, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Trevor Hopper, Emeritus Professor of Management Accounting, University of Sussex Business School
- Jodie Thorpe, Business, Markets and the State Cluster, IDS
Chair:
- Philip Mader, Business, Markets and the State Cluster, IDS
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