Handbook of Accounting in Society

Edited by Hendrik Vollmer, Reader of Accounting, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK and Associate Editor of European Accounting Review

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction to Handbook of Accounting in Society: seeing accountants
everywhere 2
Hendrik Vollmer

PART II HISTORY, ACCOUNTING, SOCIETY
2 Accounting in society? Accounting and society 9
Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin
3 Accounting in society: a historical perspective 29
Karen McBride and Shraddha Verma

PART III ACCOUNTING AND THE SHAPE OF BUSINESS
4 The temporalities of financialized accounting 45
Adam Leaver
5 Accounting for values at risk: risk management and moral imagination 58
Anette Mikes and Ken Okamura

PART IV ACCOUNTING FOR GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
6 Accounting for public value 78
James Brackley
7 Reflecting on the ‘ethos’ of public sector accounting: from
‘taken-for-granted’ to ‘plural’ values? 91
Jan van Helden and Ileana Steccolini
8 ‘Management by accounting’: the roles of accounting in agencification 107
Budi Waluyo
9 Accounting for emergency, emergency for accounting: a bibliometric review 123
Antonio D’Andreamatteo, Martina Mattioli and Massimo Sargiacomo

PART V ACCOUNTING FOR OUR FUTURE: PENSION, TAXES, WELFARE
10 Preparing the future: the roles of accounting in public and private pensions 141
Cameron Graham
11 Us and them: the role of accounting in (re)creating social inequality
through encounters with tax and welfare administration 155
Sara Closs-Davies
12 The calculation and administration of taxes as an economizing force 168
Penelope Tuck, Thomas Cuckston and Dominic de Cogan

PART VI ACCOUNTING FOR OURSELVES
13 Foundations for socio-ecological accounting scholarship 183
Jan Bebbington, Giovanna Michelon and Shona Russell
14 Accounting for gender equality 194
Ulrike Marx
15 Accounting vs. economic inequality – two examples of critical
accounting praxis 209
Stewart Smyth and James Brackley

PART VII FAITHFUL ACCOUNTANTS AND ACCOUNTINGS
16 Muslim women accountants: the unknown feminists 226
Rania Kamla
17 ‘Accountable creatures’: Christianity and accounting 239
Alistair Mutch

PART VIII ACCOUNTING CULTURES
18 Portraying the accountant in popular culture: reflections on The
Accountant (2016) movie 253
Ingrid Jeacle
19 Accounting perspectives in the digital world: controlling online interaction 265
Penelope Van den Bussche

PART IX ACCOUNTING ACTIVISTS
20 Activism and accounting 280
Colin Dey
21 Demanding accountability through grass roots activism: the case of
service charging in English social housing 294
Amanze Ejiogu and Mercy Denedo
22 The accountability assembly as a counter-accounting performance 310
Rebecca Warren, Anne Steinhoff, Konstantinos Roussos and Jason Glynos
23 Queer accounting voices: accounting academics’ oral stories 328
Alessandro Ghio and Theresa Hammond

PART X GLOBALISATION, EMPIRE, AND COMPETING WORLDS
24 Postcolonialism in accounting 344
Chandana Alawattage
25 Racism in the accounting academy – an auto-ethnographic case study of
British higher education 363
Atul K. Shah
26 Grappling with the angst of accounting: a reflection on the potential of
an Indigenous accounting approach 377
Glenn Finau

PART XI ACCOUNTING FOR LIFE AND DEATH
27 Accounting and biopolitics: an Italian perspective 387
Michele Bigoni and Warwick Funnell
28 Wildlife in human spaces: bringing naturalization and landscape-scale
conservation into the sustainable organization 400
Thomas Cuckston
29 Economic rents at the end of life: for-profit eldercare and the myth of
corporate accountability 414
Cameron Graham, Darlene Himick and Pier-Luc Nappert
30 Accounting for the good life: accounts that break your heart 428
Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Caroline Lambert and Jérémy Morales

PART XII CONCLUSION
31 Encountering accounting in society 445
Hendrik Vollmer, Michele Bigoni, James Brackley, Sara Closs-Davies,
Thomas Cuckston, Mercy Denedo, Amanze Ejiogu, Ann-Christine Frandsen,
Alessandro Ghio, Keith Hoskin, Karen McBride, Shona Russell, Atul K. Shah,
Penelope Tuck and Jan van Helden