Banal Accounts: Subaltern Voices

Dean Neu

Accounting Forum, 2001, vol. 25, issue 4, 319-333

Abstract: In this review essay I argue that accounting research as it is currently constituted can be viewed as a banal practice in that the majority of research is largely insulated from and irrelevant to the majority of the world’s population. Starting from prior research on “subalternity” I propose that accounting research is primarily a practice of the center, that the institutional field of accounting contributes to the unoriginal and partisan nature of accounting research, and finally that a consideration of the social location of accounting scholarship provides a tentative vantage point for decreasing the insularity and increasing the relevance of accounting research.

Date: 2001
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/1467-6303.00069 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:accfor:v:25:y:2001:i:4:p:319-333

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/racc20

DOI: 10.1111/1467-6303.00069

Access Statistics for this article

Accounting Forum is currently edited by Carol Tilt

More articles in Accounting Forum from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().