Accounting activism and Bourdieu's ‘collective intellectual’ – Reflections on the ICL Case

Christine Cooper and Andrea B. Coulson

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, 2014, vol. 25, issue 3, 237-254

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the practice of accounting academics as ‘collective intellectuals’ – inspired by the actions and conception of Pierre Bourdieu. While accounting researchers have drawn upon Bourdieu's theoretical contributions on habitus, field and capital, little attention has been paid to his later, more critical ideas and practice of intervention post 1995. As a result, accounting research has yet to discover Bourdieu's work on the ‘collective intellectual’ and, thus, consider its contribution to our understanding of how accounting academics can participate in a form of activism against neoliberalism that would not be in contradiction with professional norms of rigorous research. Rather, activism could enhance academic research.

Keywords: Critical; Social; Public interest; Bourdieu; Collective-intellectual; Critique; Social; Intérêt public; 批判性; 社会的; 公共利益; Crítica; Social; Interés Público (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.01.002

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