Reading for Displeasure: Why Bother with Social Accounting at All?

Rob Gray

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 2016, vol. 36, issue 2, 153-161

Abstract: This short paper comprises a review of six disparate texts: none of which is specifically about accounting or social accounting. There are three principal motivations for doing this. First, the essay celebrates the delight in reading widely and variously and how such reading can constantly challenge – and refresh – our understandings of ourselves as social accounting academics. Second, the paper sets out to explore whether a coherent narrative might be woven from such a range of disparate texts. In doing so, I find I am forced to reflect upon the limits and depths of my assumptions and implicit understandings. Finally, the essay is written – to a degree at least - with new scholars in mind. One of the hardest tasks for such neophytes is systematically engaging with literature and learning to read widely and critically. This paper suggests that it probably matters less what you read than how you read … and the self-reflection and auto-critique that the reading encourages.

Date: 2016
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