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 INTRODUCTION1 Introduction to Handbook of Accounting in Society: seeing accountantseverywhere 2Hendrik VollmerPART II HISTORY, ACCOUNTING, SOCIETY2 Accounting in society? Accounting and society 9Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin3 Accounting in society: a historical perspective 29Karen McBride and Shraddha VermaPART III ACCOUNTING AND THE SHAPE OF BUSINESS4 The temporalities of financialized accounting 45Adam Leaver5 Accounting for values at risk: risk management and moral imagination 58Anette Mikes and Ken OkamuraPART IV ACCOUNTING FOR GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT6 Accounting for public value 78James Brackley7 Reflecting on the ‘ethos’ of public sector accounting: from‘taken-for-granted’ to ‘plural’ values? 91Jan van Helden and Ileana Steccolini8 ‘Management by accounting’: the roles of accounting in agencification 107Budi Waluyo9 Accounting for emergency, emergency for accounting: a bibliometric review 123Antonio D’Andreamatteo, Martina Mattioli and Massimo SargiacomoPART V ACCOUNTING FOR OUR FUTURE: PENSION, TAXES, WELFARE10 Preparing the future: the roles of accounting in public and private pensions 141Cameron Graham11 Us and them: the role of accounting in (re)creating social inequalitythrough encounters with tax and welfare administration 155Sara Closs-Davies12 The calculation and administration of taxes as an economizing force 168Penelope Tuck, Thomas Cuckston and Dominic de CoganPART VI ACCOUNTING FOR OURSELVES13 Foundations for socio-ecological accounting scholarship 183Jan Bebbington, Giovanna Michelon and Shona Russell14 Accounting for gender equality 194Ulrike Marx15 Accounting vs. economic inequality – two examples of criticalaccounting praxis 209Stewart Smyth and James BrackleyPART VII FAITHFUL ACCOUNTANTS AND ACCOUNTINGS16 Muslim women accountants: the unknown feminists 226Rania Kamla17 ‘Accountable creatures’: Christianity and accounting 239Alistair MutchPART VIII ACCOUNTING CULTURES18 Portraying the accountant in popular culture: reflections on TheAccountant (2016) movie 253Ingrid Jeacle19 Accounting perspectives in the digital world: controlling online interaction 265Penelope Van den BusschePART IX ACCOUNTING ACTIVISTS20 Activism and accounting 280Colin Dey21 Demanding accountability through grass roots activism: the case ofservice charging in English social housing 294Amanze Ejiogu and Mercy Denedo22 The accountability assembly as a counter-accounting performance 310Rebecca Warren, Anne Steinhoff, Konstantinos Roussos and Jason Glynos23 Queer accounting voices: accounting academics’ oral stories 328Alessandro Ghio and Theresa HammondPART X GLOBALISATION, EMPIRE, AND COMPETING WORLDS24 Postcolonialism in accounting 344Chandana Alawattage25 Racism in the accounting academy – an auto-ethnographic case study ofBritish higher education 363Atul K. Shah26 Grappling with the angst of accounting: a reflection on the potential ofan Indigenous accounting approach 377Glenn FinauPART XI ACCOUNTING FOR LIFE AND DEATH27 Accounting and biopolitics: an Italian perspective 387Michele Bigoni and Warwick Funnell28 Wildlife in human spaces: bringing naturalization and landscape-scaleconservation into the sustainable organization 400Thomas Cuckston29 Economic rents at the end of life: for-profit eldercare and the myth ofcorporate accountability 414Cameron Graham, Darlene Himick and Pier-Luc Nappert30 Accounting for the good life: accounts that break your heart 428Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Caroline Lambert and Jérémy MoralesPART XII CONCLUSION31 Encountering accounting in society 445Hendrik 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

‘This important book revisits the multifaceted roles that accounting practices have come to play in society. Tracing the diverse range of accountants and accountings from professional practice, accountings for wildlife, gender, race, life, death and grassroots activism to the portrayal of accountants in movies, this book brings together a uniquely rich and diverse collection of essays that reveal accounting’s wide scope of power and influence, exploring what accounting was, is and could be.’